The NOSFERATU cast talk Bill Skarsgård's gruesome transformation

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The actor pushed himself further than ever before, in Robert Eggers' new gothic horror. 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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00:00If I don't think there's anything, anywhere further I can go.

00:03Was he scary?

00:04He was scary in real life, for sure.

00:06I wouldn't sleep with him.

00:07I wouldn't sleep with him, but there's a bit of something there.

00:10A huge fan of his.

00:12I loved the script.

00:15When I read it all those years ago, I was like, yes, yes, yes, yes, I want this movie

00:19to exist, I want to be a part of it, everything.

00:23And then when Warlock came about, I was unsure if I was right for it or if I could do it,

00:34but he believed that I could, and that was a motivator for me to try to, at least.

00:42And yeah, it's a movie that, I don't know if it's like I've had this experience quite

00:50this much where it's like I would have loved to see this movie regardless if I was part

00:55of it.

00:56I just would love to be, I'm a fan of this movie and of Robert, so the fact that I got

01:03the opportunity to be a part of it in such a way was a no-brainer.

01:08And then, yeah, I've done these kind of really far out there sort of transformational roles

01:15before, and I think that this one is as far as I can get away from myself.

01:21I don't think there's anything, anywhere further I can go in terms of complete transformation,

01:26physically and vocally and whatever, yeah.

01:28Was he scary?

01:29Did you...

01:30He was scary in real life, for sure, yeah, yeah, and because I think everything is real,

01:35there's very little CG in this movie, and so the Count Orlok that you see on screen

01:43is the Count Orlok that we were seeing in real life, and so he's completely scary and

01:49imposing and Bill is quite tall already, and then he had these Orlok heels that made him

01:55like even taller, and he was...

01:56A nice stiletto.

01:57Yeah, a little stiletto, and he was, yeah, very, very scary.

02:02And of course, he's a phenomenal actor, so when we were shooting those scenes, he was

02:07yeah, completely embodying that role.

02:09It was very impressive.

02:10And during Attraction Public, as simple as there's something interesting about the undead

02:17coming to visit the living, that's pretty juicy right there, and about people's relationship

02:25to strategies in their life versus the other, versus the end, versus it's a meditation on

02:36death, and then any time you have a meditation on death, you introduce a meditation on sex,

02:42and anything you have a meditation on sex, you have a meditation on relationships and

02:49love, so it's a flexible thing, and the sexy vampire, he was sexy.

02:56I didn't think...

02:57He was rotten.

02:58I didn't think Orlok was quite sexy.

02:59He was rotten, but you know, I wouldn't sleep with him.

03:02I wouldn't sleep with him, but there's a bit of something there, there's chemistry, and

03:05I think where there's chemistry, there's attraction, and where there's attraction, there's sexuality,

03:09so I think there's like, there was something there.

03:12Because of the style and how Rob shoots, it's really absorbing, but also then it's like

03:17longer takes through each scene where it doesn't give you a relief.

03:22You get, suck it in, and you have to stay with it, and that's something that just helps

03:26build the tension and the weariness of what's about to come, and being on set was kind of

03:33like that.

03:35The sets were, first of all, there were 60 sets, I think, and they were all so realistic

03:40and beautifully designed, but then on top of that, the way that Jarrah and the DP lights

03:44them, it was all very moody and dark, and then there would be an atmosphere in there,

03:49and Rob would play music that was kind of imposing, so it was quite a sinister, oppressive

03:55place to be.

03:56Yeah.

03:57Very all-consuming, for sure.

03:59But that's also what's great, as actors, to be then put into that environment, it kind

04:02of gives you a lot of information, you know, and emotionally, you know, to perform.

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