Seven years after becoming a top horror star as Pennywise in "It," Bill Skarsgård is back on the big screen playing the original movie monster, Count Orlok, in Robert Eggers' remake of the vampire classic "Nosferatu.

Nosferatu star Bill Skarsgård reveals that before he landed the role of Count Orlok, director Robert Eggers nearly cast three famous actors instead.

As you know, Willem Dafoe has a fun connection to Nosferatu , dating back to his amazingly fun portrayal of Max Schreck in the 2000 dark comedy Shadow of the Vampire . The film is a fictionalized take on the making of F.

A creation actors like Max Schreck and Klaus Kinski previously inhabited, Skarsgård is grappling with a gigantic cultural legacy in Nosferatu beyond just his own prior monstrous performances. Impressively,

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.”

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,

Nosferatu sees Bill Skarsgård transform into a terrifying ancient vampire in the new horror movie, and it seems like there are some small details that help make him so scary. Speaking to GamesRadar+,