Nicolas Cage shaved his teeth to transform into Dracula for ‘Renfield’

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Variety Thursday.“Nic wanted to emote and annunciate properly, so it was important the veneers were thin,” he said, explaining that the technology allowed him to make quick adjustments to the sharp dentures when needed.In order to put the 3-D printing to good use, Tinsley had to scan Cage’s teeth and then digitally sculpt them so they could fit in his mouth perfectly.The “National Treasure” actor also spent over three hours daily in the hair and makeup chair.“It was a full head of prosthetics, dentures, full body, torso, arms, hands and nails,” Tinsley noted. “Those take time.”Cage also stayed in character for the whole time they were shooting the flick, even when the camera wasn’t on him.

Director Chris McKay told Insider last month that the actor was portraying the iconic vamp even during off-camera conversations.“Whatever scene we did he would still be 100% living in that attitude after we stopped shooting,” McKay said. “So if he’s a little frosty in the scene he’s going to have a little bit of that between takes.

But still up for whatever we were doing.” However, Cage denied the accusation shortly after, telling the Hollywood Reporter: “I just don’t have that recollection.

I don’t know why Chris said that.”“I had a lot of laughs in between takes with both Chris McKay and Nick Hoult, so maybe that was his experience, maybe because I still had the fangs in my mouth that made me speak a certain way, but that wasn’t my experience,” the Golden Globe winner continued.“Renfield” will be biting its way into theaters on April 14 and also stars Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez and Shohreh Aghdashloo.Hoult portrays Dracula’s miserable servant R.