Willem Dafoe says Nosferatu is unlike anything he's ever seen
Dec. 15, 2023Willem Dafoe has an exciting tease about Nosferatu
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Willem Dafoe has shared new details about Nosferatu – and he’s got us very excited.
The film is directed by Robert Eggers, helmer ofThe Northman,The Lighthouse, andThe Witch, and stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Dafoe.
“[Eggers] gets better and better and better, gets more articulate, more on top of it,” Dafoe toldIndieWire. “He’s so clear when he works. It opens in December of next year, which is a long time away. Trying to be an optimist, I think the studio must feel very strong about it, because that’s quite a tough slot, so I’m excited about that. I saw some footage when we were shooting, and I can honestly say, visually, it was like unlike anything I have seen. … The look of it and how it was shot was extraordinary.”
He also revealed a little more about his character, saying he’s portraying “kind of a Van Helsing type of character, but not exactly. So, he’s true to the source in some ways but also invented in some ways.”
Per the official logline, “Robert Eggers' Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.” Mark us down asextremelyintrigued.
“He’s so transformed in every aspect that I don’t know if people will give him the credit,“Eggers told our sister publication Total Film of Skarsgård’s performance. “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.”
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