Nosferatu is so terrifying that its star ‘never wants to play something this evil again’
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Nosferatu star Bill Skarsgård has hit the limit of his capacity for portraying wickedness with his latest movie, proclaiming he ‘never wants to play something this evil again’. In the upcoming horror film, directed by Robert Eggers and which has earned rave reviews and currently sits on an impressive 94% on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, the 34-year-old plays a decaying and cursed vampire.
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‘When we were done with it, I was like, “I never want to play something this evil again. I never want to put on prosthetics again”,’ he revealed to Empire magazine. Based on the classic 1922 silent German Expressionist film, directed by FW Murnau and starring Max Schreck, Nosferatu was an unauthorised adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula with Count Orlok as the terrifying antagonist.
![[4193_D003_00297_R Nicholas Hoult stars as Thomas Hutter in director Robert Eggers??? NOSFERATU, a Focus Features release. Credit: Aidan Monaghan / ?? 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_231703444-2ba1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
However, Orlok is a world away from the debonair image of Dracula in popular culture, who is normally seen as seductive and handsome – and possibly even dressed in black tie and a cape. Skarsgård is fully unrecognisable as Orlok, who is thought to have been spawned from the seed of one of Stan’s lieutenants, with the actor’s grisly transformation deliberately being hidden from audiences in Nosferatu’s trailer and publicity images.
![[Bill Skarsgard poses in a black suit and tie with his hand in his pocket in front of a Nosferatu poster at the UK Premiere at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_233637814-3c2e.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. So far, all you can see outside the film itself is his long-nailed and gnarled hands pouring Nicholas Hoult’s Thomas Hutter a goblet of wine….
