Nicholas Hoult Sits Down With Elle Fanning For L’OFFICIEL

Nicholas Hoult sat down with his dear friend, and The Great costar, Elle Fanning for a new interview with L’OFFICIEL. The actor sat down with Elle to promote his new film, Renfield. Highlights from their interview is below.

On why he joined Renfield: “With Renfield, I thought it was a fun take because Renfield is normally a secondary character, and I was like, ‘How fun to explore these codependent, toxic relationships in this scenario—a work environment between Dracula and his familiar.'”

On who he gets mistaken for: “Who do I get mistaken for? Basically any young English actor around my age. In the coffee shop not far from me, for a while, I would accept praise for Me Before You, a movie Sam Claflin did. This person at the coffee shop was convinced it was me, so I accepted all the praise. They thought I was very good in it.”

On working with Nicholas Cage again: “I was so excited for him to be coming in to do this, because that was a crazy experience when I was 14, to work with him then [on The Weather Man]. I think at that age, I hadn’t seen a lot of his work, and I wasn’t fully aware of quite how iconic Nicolas Cage was, so it was nice to get to work with him again. I’m almost more in awe of him the second time—but then also, to see him as Dracula is pretty incredible, because it’s such an iconic role, but then you put Nicolas Cage into it, and it doesn’t get more iconic, in many ways, than those two combined. And also watching the way he works—where his inspiration came from, his dedication—it was really wonderful, and I was very happy to get the chance to work with him again and have a front-row seat.”

You can check out even more from his interview here. Renfield opens in theaters on April 14.