A charm from Count Orlok in Nosferatu it goes beyond the decaying skin deep. And this was designed by director Robert Eggers, who discussed his decisions to deviate from both Max Schreck classics. Nosferatu look and modern sexy vampires.
“The most revered modern vampire, Edward Cullen appears It’s duskit’s not scary at all,” Eggers told Gold Derby. So I wanted to go back to the myth because the ancient history of Balkan and Slavic vampires is written either by people who believed that vampires existed and were very afraid of them. So clearly, there must be something scary there. And these ancient vampires looked like rotting corpses—like how we think of zombies in modern cinema. So that was an interesting theory.”
The last person to play a hot rotting corpse, ironically, also plays another love interest NosferatuEllen Hutter-remember Nicholas Hoult in Warm bodies? Here, he is Thomas Hutter: an ordinary man caught in the power of centuries of decaying rizz.
What can we say? That mustache Bill Skarsgård makes for us Transylvanian defenders Tom Selleck, who completely changed beyond our expectations what a vampire should look and sound like. In that same interview, Eggers continued, “Facial hair, not everyone is obsessed with it. But, in my opinion, it is important … if you look at the photos of Transylvanian nobles, if you can find one without a mustache or a beard, let me know. I think he could have a beard, just like that. But you know, Dracula in this novel has a moustache. Vlad the Impaler had a mustache. The most common facial hair style in Eastern Europe. So for me it felt like it helped him fit into that world and be a part of it more than anything.” Historical accuracy, indeed.
The film is a gothic horror that culminates in the inevitable defeat of one mysteriously dead Transylvanian king—who has the power to make life hell for everyone around his beloved if he doesn’t get his way. Skarsgård shared with Esquire that the performance was “excruciating” and that “it was like creating pure evil. It took me a while to get rid of the demon that was inside me.”
Thank the horror gods, Bill was a freak and did the work to make himself one of the best actors on screen, proving vampires can still be devastatingly seductive without the shiny chest or shiny golden locks of his brother Alexander, who played the vampire Eric true Blood.
“It plays with the temptation of sex about the power of the monster and what that appeals to you,” said Bill Skarsgård about his take on Orlok. “I hope you’ll be a little bit attracted to it and hate your own attraction at the same time.” And to Anne Rice, I swear she and Eggers did it. The gross, swamp rat-eating Lestat (both) looks like a cute chibi character compared to Skarsgård. You sound hypnotically powerful. Seriously, witchcraft? Bill surpasses Ralph Ineson’s voice in the movie Ralph Ineson has a deep, playful voice that moves the hips. How would you describe some of the somatic trances that Lily-Rose Depp does as Ellen?
Orlok is truly an appetite. That’s right, if you squint hard enough Skarsgård’s eyes go to the disturbed side of his contagiously itchy face. We find out why Ellen jumped to her death in it, the destruction of beauty and the beast in a spectacularly beautiful way. A story as old as time indeed.
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