“Which was challenging but also fun.”
Dafoe plays a vampire hunter named Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz in Eggers' Prague-shot take on director F.W.
Murnau’s 1922 horror classic.
Willem Dafoe plays Professor Albin Eberhart von Franz in ‘Nosferatu’.Aidan Monaghan/FOCUS FEATURES
Bill is best known for playing, under a good deal of makeup, the clown-monster Pennywise in theItfilms.
Eggers explains that the Swedish actor underwent an even more extreme makeover for his performance as Orlok.
“Aside from his eyes, its hard to find Bill,” the director says.
Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter in ‘Nosferatu’.Focus Features
Eggers does let on that the actor worked with an opera coach to lower his voice an octave.
“Im super excited to see what audiences make of Bill Skarsgard’s Count Orlok.”
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Eggers choseAaron Taylor-JohnsonandThe CrownactressEmma Corrinto play another couple, Friedrich and Anna Harding.
The director says Friedrich is friends with Hutter in the originalNosferatubut is much more fleshed out in this film.
The cast also includes Ralph Ineson, who appeared in bothThe WitchandThe Northman.
That starry ensemble, however, almost looked very different.
The director initially thought of Bill Skarsgard for the role ultimately played by Hoult.
Remarkably, Eggers never gave up hopeor, at least, didn’t do so for too long.
Nosferatuis scheduled for release in theaters Dec. 25, 2024.
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