Days ago, director of the horror comedy, Renfield, Chris McKay, spoke of Nicolas Cage’s performance as Dracula in the film, claiming that he method acted in between takes.

“Whatever scene we did he would still be 100% living in that attitude after we stopped shooting,” McKay said according to Insider. “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.” Mckay said that Cage would refuse to break character even when he was trying to have “a real conversation” regarding a scene. 

Cage dispelled these claims at Renfield’s New York Premiere.

“I just don’t have that recollection, I don’t know why Chris said that,” Cage said to The Hollywood Reporter. “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.”

McKay also acknowledged in his interview with Insider that it was hard not to see Cage as Dracula in between takes due to the makeup and costume. “But you also have to remember, he’s covered head to toe in Dracula makeup and costume, so it’s a different thing,” McKay said. “Sometimes he couldn’t even bend his body very much because he’s got a whole body appliance on. So he’s Dracula whether he wants to be Dracula or not.”

Cage spoke at the premiere about how he drew Dracula out: “With this Dracula, I was trying to fuse that which is scary and humorous even at the same time in the line delivery. It was just how can you be creepy and funny at the same time, that was the challenge.”

Renfield will release in United States theaters on April 14.