Interview With "Renfield" Star Ben Schwartz & Director Chris McKay

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

"Renfield" is a horror, action comedy from director Chris McKay ("The Lego Batman Movie" and "The Tomorrow War") which tells the story of a co-dependent relationship between Dracula (Nicolas Cage) and his long-suffering familiar Renfield (Nicholas Hoult). An intentionally silly, fun, and over-the-top comedy with lots of gore, actor Ben Schwartz plays the son of a mob boss who gets tied up in Renfield and Dracula's conflict. Schwartz and McKay were kind enough to let me interview them during the press junket for the film (my first-ever in-person interview), which you can listen to below! Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the star from
0:05.8	Renfield Ben Schwartz and the director Chris McKay.
0:09.6	Sorry to interrupt. Are you okay? I need to get out of a toxic relationship.
0:17.3	Why don't you start by telling us what brought you here?
0:24.6	My... Why don't you start by telling us what brought you here? My boss, he's different.
0:27.6	You can't get him out of your head.
0:29.6	No.
0:30.6	I need your assistance.
0:31.6	I'm coming, master!
0:32.6	Oh, you feel like he could destroy you with the snap of his fingers.
0:35.6	Wouldn't even need to snap.
0:41.5	Okay.
0:42.2	Uh-huh, that sounds familiar.
0:44.1	Yeah, what?
0:44.7	Okay.
0:45.5	First of all, Chris, Ben, thank you both so much for taking a time to talk with me today about Renfield.
0:51.2	It's been a very, very exciting process, seeing Universal kind of go through a reboot,
0:56.0	if you will, of how to handle classic horror movie monsters on screen now. Chris, can you first
1:01.3	start off with explaining what was the idea to kind of center this around like a codependent
1:06.6	relationship instead of like a straight remake, which is what we typically see within the marketplace.
1:11.6	Yeah, I mean, we're really lucky that Universal, you know, kind of allowed us to have sort of a cock-eyed point of view on the Dracula story and not do something that's sort of a typical, you know, kind of a typical Dracula story, whether it's an origin story or just watching him,
1:27.5	you know, sort of in modern times go after victims and that sort of thing.
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