Robert Eggers says Bill Skarsgård is unrecognizable in Nosferatu: "You can't detect any Bill here"
Dec. 4, 2023Exclusive: Robert Eggers talks Bill Skarsgard’s vampire transformation
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Nosferatu Director Robert Eggers says Bill Skarsgård is unrecognizable in the role of vampire Count Orlok – even more so than he was as Pennywise.
“He’s so transformed in every aspect that I don’t know if people will give him the credit. You can see Bill [as Pennywise] in theItmake-up; you can’t detect any Bill here. He worked with an opera coach to lower his voice an octave. I think people are going to think we treated it digitally, but that’s his performance.”
Max Schreck played Count Orlok in the original 1922 Nosferatu, and that iconic makeup look was recreated in Werner Herzog’s 1979 remake. It was also in Tobe Hooper’s miniseries of Stephen King’s vampire novel Salem’s Lot. But it’s clear that Eggers is going for something different here.
The cast includes Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter (who you can see in our exclusive image above), Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding, Emma Corrin as Ann Harding, Willem Dafoe as Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz, Simon McBurney as Herr Knock, and Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers.
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