NOSFERATU: Bill Skarsgård DOESN'T like scaring people

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It's not the first time the actor's disappeared behind a terrifying prosthetic, but he takes no pleasure in creeping us out. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Congratulations, bud, on another fantastic, very immersive performance from yourself.

00:05Is this sort of like serendipity? What happened after it and then this? You seem to be going

00:09to the go-to guy who can completely disappear behind a role, behind some makeup and create

00:14something so far away from what we see in front of me right now. Or is this by design?

00:21Was this always the idea for your acting career?

00:23No. God, no. I had no plan whatsoever to begin with. I've just been following my genuine

00:31attraction to material. That's it. And if it's good material, if the challenge kind

00:39of scares me, it usually excites me at the same time. And in terms of the transformative

00:44thing, it's a part of acting that I love to do. So even if I don't play a character with

00:51prosthetics and makeup, I still want to transform in a way. I don't want to play someone that's

00:56entirely myself. So it's just my approach. And I've been fortunate enough now to play

01:04a character like Orlok that is as transformative as I can get, man. This is it. This is it.

01:13You talk about being scared yourself. Can you take enjoyment in scaring other people

01:18when all of that makeup and the prosthetics is on? Did you enjoy inhabiting Orlok more

01:24than perhaps it? Because I guess you're scaring kids in that, so it seems a little bit darker

01:29in a way. Or do you just separate yourself from it so much that it's not that enjoyable?

01:35I felt this was way, way, way darker than it, for sure. When I was doing it, I got to

01:42work with lovely kids, and we got along really well. This is sinister on a different, more

01:50mature level, if you will. But no, I don't enjoy scaring people in that sense. We're

02:01making a film, so I don't find enjoyment in it per se. The performance is what I like

02:09to do, and find the character and the idiosyncrasies in the character's speech and movement and

02:16all of that. That's where I find most joy.

02:19I suppose it gives a few more conversations over the Christmas dinner this year with you

02:22and your brother. Now, you've both shared an experience that's quite unique, working

02:25with someone like Robert Eggers on a movie like that.

02:28Yeah, it's very cool.

02:29Well, congratulations, man. Enjoy that Christmas dinner, and we'll see you on the next one.

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