Nicolas Cage went a little extra mile to portray the original vampire. He got his teeth shaved down. However, he will be wearing dentures for the performance. The dentist did an incredible job so that it won’t hurt Cage’s speech or fluency. His makeup artist is impressed by the changes he has done to himself.
His prepping up for Renfield, where he plays Dracula.
Nicolas Cage ‘Dracula’ Needed More Expensive And Exclusive Attention
Nicolas Cage’s makeup artist isChristien Tinsley.Tinsley got nominated for Oscar for best makeup artist in Hollywood. One of his best works was in 2004 released The Passion Of The Christ. He could find fine similarities between these two movies. Where the production used 3D printing for dentures.
This time also Renfield uses the same techniques as Nicolas Cage. The high-tech methods are thrilling and time-saving. It helped with enhancing creativity and providing more originality on screen.
These are not even time-consuming, they can be ready within hours. Also, you can make many at one time, if anything happens they would have a backup plan.
Nicolas Cage has many scenes in Renfield as Dracula. And all of them are different from each other.
For a scene in particular Nicolas Cage was required three hours of makeup. Tinsely always pays attention to the detail. He said it was full of heads of prosthetics, dentures, full body, torso, arms and hands, and also nails. Everything was done with great attention.
The director Chris McKay said Nicolas Cage is so into the character. He was never out of character while they were filming. It was very few times when came out of the character.
Cage said he has no idea whatsoever why Chris McKay has said that, he believes it because he had his dentures on. He had to speak in a certain way because of that, perhaps it was a reason for Chris.
