Bill Skarsgård chats with THR at the 'Nosferatu' premiere and reveals that he was introduced to the original film as a kid. Plus, he says he's "excited for this beast to be unleashed" when it comes to audiences seeing the final look.
00:00How excited are you for families to get together and spend Christmas morning with Count Orlok?
00:05Oh boy, I, yeah, that's, um, it's, um, it's, um, I won't be there, but, uh, but, uh, you mean my family or you mean, like, the viewers?
00:15Yeah, the collective, everybody.
00:16Everybody should go on, yeah, Christmas morning, you should go and see the film.
00:20Um, um, it's exciting. I won't be there, but I hope they enjoy it.
00:24I hope they're scared and I hope they think the movie's beautiful and it moves them and it, you know, does things in their body where they're like,
00:30oh, I'm not so sure how I feel about this, but it's cool, you know?
00:33You're not a sneak in the back of the theater kind of guy?
00:36On Christmas Day?
00:37No, no, no.
00:37I don't know what your Christmas is.
00:40I will say it's been interesting, the final look has largely been kept under wraps, so what are you most excited for people to see?
00:48Yeah, I'm very, I'm, I'm excited for this, uh, for this beast to be unleashed, you know, yeah, yeah.
00:56It's, it's, it's, whenever you shoot a movie and you, it, it, it, and you do a character, it's very private, it's a very intimate relationship you have with the film.
01:05And then, and then it's, it's part of, it's, it's yours until it's released and then it's not yours anymore.
01:12It's, it's, it's the, it's the world's.
01:15So, um, so in a way it's a premiere, but it's also a funeral.
01:18I see, I see.
01:20No, Sperate is interesting because it's, it's such a staple in kind of pop culture in a way.
01:25Like, they're like, there's young people that have been introduced to Counter-Luck through SpongeBob.
01:28So what was your intro point?
01:30Do you, do you know what I'm talking about with this?
01:31Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:33Um, I saw it, I saw it as a kid.
01:35I saw it as a kid.
01:36I saw the original as a kid.
01:38Um, my dad and I would watch movies together and we'd watch silent film movies together and, and we watched, you know, um, mostly comedy, like Charlie Chaplin stuff and the Buster Keaton things and stuff.
01:48But, and, and we watched that one.
01:49So I saw it as a, as a kid.
01:50And then, uh, and then I played a character in a short film and the character's name was Nosferatu, uh, Teenage Nosferatu.
01:58Um, it was a short film in Sweden and then.
02:01What's he up to in his teen years?
02:03Well, it's not about that.
02:04The movie's about something else.
02:05But anyways, I, I studied the character when I was 16 because I did like a portrayal of a Teenage Nosferatu.
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