Seven years after becoming a top horror star as Pennywise in "It," Bill Skarsgård is back on the big screen playing the original movie monster, Count Orlok, in Robert Eggers' remake of the vampire classic "Nosferatu.

Nosferatu director explains why it is historically accurate for Bill Skarsgård's version of Count Orlok to have a mustache in Nosferatu.

As you know, Willem Dafoe has a fun connection to Nosferatu , dating back to his amazingly fun portrayal of Max Schreck in the 2000 dark comedy Shadow of the Vampire . The film is a fictionalized take on the making of F.

Like most Nosferatu stories, Orlok is represented in Eggers’ film as more of a horror than a hunk; he also represents a sort of forbidden desire for Ellen. “To have the attraction to this figure… I think he was probably a beautiful man at some point, but now he’s covered in maggots,” the director said. “That’s interesting to me.”

Director Robert Eggers explains why Count Orlok drinks blood from his victims’ chests and not from their necks in his adaptation of Nosferatu.

"I was worried that I couldn't perform through it," the actor said about the extensive prosthetics he wore to play the famed vampire The post ‘Nosferatu’ Star Bill Skarsgård Was Afraid He Looked ‘Like the F—ing Grinch’ In Count Orlok Makeup appeared first on TheWrap.

Lily-Rose Depp shares why Bill Skarsgård was “scary in real life” on the set of “Nosferatu.” Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

Nosferatu star Bill Skarsgård reveals that before he landed the role of Count Orlok, director Robert Eggers nearly cast three famous actors instead.