Bill Skarsgård Talks His "NOSFERATU" Look and Performance; "Very Sexualized" and "Gross"

Vampires and Dracula have been major players on the big screen for decades and although we have seen many versions of these nighttime hunters over the years, the upcoming film from director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman) is going in a bit of a different direction with his next movie. He’s getting set to unleash Nosferatu, a new version of the classic vampire tale that predates the Bela Lugosi DRACULA so many have come to know.

Focus Features will release Nosferatu in theaters for Christmas on December 25, 2024

Bill Skarsgård will be playing the title character (also known as Count Orlok) for Robert Eggers, and he teases his performance in a new chat with Esquire this week.

Now we haven’t much news on the plot or even the overall flow of the new film in question but Skarsgård isn’t known to give weak performances(anybody remember he played Pennywise the Clown?). So far we don’t even know how he will look in the film but Esquire explains that the actor “worked with an opera singer to bring his voice down to its lowest possible pitch,” and “spent three to six hours every day in makeup and prosthetics.”

“It took its toll,” he tells Esquire in his own words.  “It was like conjuring pure evil. It took a while for me to shake off the demon that had been conjured inside of me.”

“I do not think people are gonna recognize me in it,” Skarsgård continues.

He additionally teases, “He’s gross. But it is very sexualized. It’s playing with a sexual fetish about the power of the monster and what that appeal has to you. Hopefully, you’ll get a little bit attracted by it and disgusted by your attraction at the same time.”

“Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.”

The original film was released in 1922 and then remade in 1979. It gave the basses for what we know as Dracula and has been an influence on the character ever since.

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