Nicolas Cage‘s time on the set of the 1988 film Vampire’s Kiss sounds like an episode of Fear Factor. In a recent interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, the National Treasure actor said he ate two cockroaches while filming the movie.
“Oh yeah, I ate it twice, because the director did it just to prank me,” Cage said, when the interviewer asked about a scene in which he eats the insect. “I ate cockroaches. I'll never do that again. I'm sorry I did it at all,” he said.
Cage’s Renfield costar Nicholas Hoult also ate bugs on the set of their new film, but “the cockroaches I got to eat in this were caramel,” Hoult commented. While Cage found Hoult eating potato bugs for Renfeild to be “terrifying,” the Face/Off actor added that a diet including insects could help fight world hunger.