“Nosferatu” star Nicholas Hoult was given a present so weird that he shall not quickly overlook it.
In an Elle video launched Monday, Hoult mentioned the horror movie’s director, Robert Eggers, mailed him a prosthetic penis that fellow actor Invoice Skarsgård utilized in his portrayal of the long-lasting vampire Depend Orlok.
“I have Count Orlok’s prosthetic penis framed at home,” Hoult informed co-star Lily-Rose Depp. “There’s a scene where Bill Skarsgård is slurping my blood, and Robert Eggers asked afterwards, ‘How was that for you?’… And I said, ‘I could feel his prosthetic penis on my leg.’”
The accent was apparently worn by Skarsgård as half off his transformation into the tall, bald vampire recognized for his clawlike fingers, pale pores and skin and pointed ears.
Hoult defined that Eggers “got it [the prosthetic] framed and he sent it to my house.”
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Nevertheless it didn’t finish there. For the reason that present was broken when it arrived, the “X-Men” star mentioned he took it to get repaired.
“The frame had broken when it got [to my house], so I had to take it to the local frame shop and I had to be like, ‘Hey, dude, can you fix this?’” Hoult recalled.
The prop hilariously raised some eyebrows with the person working there, Hoult mentioned.
“He kind of didn’t even blink the first time, 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,” he shared.
“He was like, ‘Is this some kind of collector’s piece?’” Hoult mentioned. “I was like, ‘Yeah, you could say that.’”
Skarsgård just lately informed Deadline that his transformation into Depend Orlok was “uncomfortable.”
“The prosthetics took forever,” he informed the outlet in a narrative revealed earlier this month. “You were very hot and you were very itchy and sticky. 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.”
“Nosferatu,” a remake of the 1922 horror basic of the identical title, additionally stars Willem Dafoe and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The movie is ready to hit theaters Wednesday.
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Take a look at Elle video with Hoult right here.
