Like most Nosferatu stories, Orlok is represented in Eggers’ film as more of a horror than a hunk; he also represents a sort of forbidden desire for Ellen. “To have the attraction to this figure… I think he was probably a beautiful man at some point, but now he’s covered in maggots,” the director said. “That’s interesting to me.”

“I have Count Orlok’s prosthetic penis framed at home,” Hoult told 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.’”

Bill Skarsgård apparently went into a super dark place during his performance as Count Orlok in director Robert Eggers ’ upcoming vampire film Nosferatu . He’s played some deranged and evil characters in the past with Pennywise The Clown from It,

Hoult stars as estate agent Thomas Hutter who works for Skarsgård's Count Orlok in the remake of the 1922 silent film