Dracula is a character with a huge cultural legacy, with actors from Bela Lugosi to Christopher Lee to Gary Oldman – and now Nicolas Cage in Renfield – taking on the role. The same, however, can't be said for R.M. Renfield, Dracula's familiar. Nicholas Hoult takes on the role in the new movie of the same name, a horror-comedy that sees the vampire's lackey empowering himself to step away from the toxic relationship with his bloodsucking master.
"Obviously, with Dracula, people then have such an idea of who he is on screen and their interpretation of their favorites. Whereas with Renfield, he hasn't appeared in every Dracula movie, and he was more of a secondary character when he has, so I probably did feel a sense of freedom through that," Hoult tells the Inside Total Film podcast when we sit down to discuss the movie.
