Nicholas Hoult left “Nosferatu” with an unexpected souvenir.
The actor, 35, and his co-star Lily-Rose Depp recently did an “Ask Me Anything” video interview with Elle and were asked what they took from the set of the new horror film directed by Robert Eggers.
“I have Count Orlok’s prosthetic penis framed at home,” Hoult revealed.
“There’s a scene where Bill Skarsgård is slurping my blood and Robert Eggers asked, ‘How was that for you?’ And I said, ‘I could feel his prosthetic penis on my leg,’” the actor recalled.
Hoult explained that “as a wrap gift,” Eggers, 41, got the prosthetic penis “framed and he sent to my house.”
“But the frame had broken when it got there, so I had to take it to a local frame shop and I had to be like, ‘Hey, dude, can you fix this?’” Hoult told Depp, 25.
“He kind of didn’t even blink the first time,” the actor continued, “and then when I went back to pick it up, I think he had clocked how weird it was, what I was framing, potentially, like, this vampire penis? And he was like, ‘Is this some kind of collector’s piece?’”
Depp added, “You’re like, ‘Yes it is.’”
“I was like, ‘Yeah, you could say that,’” Hoult responded with a laugh.
“Nosferatu” is a remake of the 1922 silent film, which was unofficially adapted from Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula.”
Hoult and Depp play husband and wife Thomas and Ellen Hutter in the horror flick, while Skarsgård, 34, plays the titular monster. The cast also includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe.
In a recent interview with Deadline, Eggers revealed that Skarsgård was terrified when he saw his prosthetics for the role.
“Bill sees the sculpt of the bust and he freaks out, and he’s like, ‘That doesn’t look anything like me, this guy didn’t look like me when he was even alive. What the f–k?’” Eggers recalled. “He wasn’t mean, but he was alarmed. And I was like, ‘Well, that’s the point, that you’re totally transforming into somebody else.’”
“And then, he’s putting the makeup on and he’s like, ‘Ugh, I look like a goblin. This is terrible,’” the director continued. “And then, once they put the hair on, even though the makeup wasn’t totally finished, I saw the first moment when he was like, ‘OK, this is cool. This is a person.’”
Skarsgård himself detailed how “uncomfortable” he was in the prosthetics.
“The prosthetics took forever. You were very hot and you were very itchy and sticky,” he explained. “And then for me to just being able to use that voice that we worked so hard on, there was a whole regimen every morning.”
The actor also said he “became very obsessed” from transforming into Count Orlok for the film, but now that it’s over he sees the movie as “actually beautiful.”
“It’s scary and it’s horrific, but there’s also a lot of beauty in it. And it’s sensual and sexual and it hits on so many different layers,” Skarsgård shared.
“Nosferatu” hits theaters on Christmas Day.
