Nicholas Hoult on why he has a fellow ‘Nosferatu’ actor’s prosthetic pole framed at home
Nosferatu.Director Robert Eggers sent Hoult the prosthetic p*nis worn by Bill Skarsgård, who plays the vampire, Count Orlok.Hoult took part in a video discussion with Nosferatu’s lead actress, Lily-Rose Depp, for Elle magazine.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.“I have Count Orlok’s prosthetic p*nis framed at home,” Hoult said. “There’s a scene where Bill Skarsgård is slurping my blood and Robert Eggers asked, ‘How was that for you?’ … And I said, ‘I could feel his prosthetic p*nis on my leg.'”Hoult went on to say Eggers sent the prosthetic to the 35-year-old as a memento after filming finished.
Eggers even went to the trouble of having it framed. However. The frame was damaged in the post.“Rob got it framed and sent to my house,” he recalled. “But the frame had broken when it got there, so I had to take it to a local frame shop and I had to be like, ‘Hey, dude, can you fix this?’”The framer seemed unfazed by the request at first.
However, he had a few more questions when Hoult returned to collect his item.“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?” Hoult said. “And he was like, ‘Is this some kind of collector’s piece?’”Hoult said, “I was like, ‘Yeah, you could say that.’”Watch the discussion below.The new Nosferatu is a remake of the classic 1922 silent movie.
It’s basically a retelling of the Dracula story, but back then, for copyright reasons, the makers of the original movie named their movie Nosferatu.Hoult plays Thomas Hutter, an estate agent who must find a property for the mysterious Count Orlok.Lily-Rose Depp is the woman with whom Orlok develops an obsession.Nosferatu had a limited opening at IMAX theaters on Christmas Eve and will expand over the coming days.
