Exclusive: Nicholas Hoult and Willem Dafoe talk Robert Eggers' Nosferatu
Now playing in theaters is Nosferatu, the story of Dracula, which is written and directed by Robert Eggers. He’s helmed The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman previously, plus a few other short films.
Based on the original Nosferatu screenplay by Henrik Galeen and Dracula book by Bram Stoker, the cast includes Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok, Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter, Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, Emma Corrin as Anna Harding, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding, Willem Dafoe as Prof. Albin Eberhart Von Franz, Simon McBurney as Herr Knock, and Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers.
"He is coming." Robert Eggers' Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
In the 1830s, estate agent Thomas Hutter travels to Transylvania for a fateful meeting with Count Orlok, a prospective client. In his absence, Hutter's new bride, Ellen, is left under the care of their friends, Friedrich and Anna Harding. Plagued by horrific visions and an increasing sense of dread, Ellen soon encounters an evil force that's far beyond her control.
Hoult is currently starring alongside Jude Law in The Order, which premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. He’s also starring opposite Toni Collette in Clint Eastwood’s next film, Juror #2. In 2025, Hoult will be seen as Lex Luther in James Gunn’s Superman. Most recently, Hoult starred in Hulu and Tony McNamara’s critically acclaimed series The Great. Hoult’s performance garnered him an Emmy nomination in the “Lead Actor in a Comedy Series” category as well as Screen Actors Guild nominations.
Dafoe is reuniting with Eggers after starring asThomas Wake in Eggers’ The Lighthouse opposite Robert Pattinson. Most recently, he was seen in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness, their second collaboration together after the Academy Award nominated Poor Things; Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice; Asteroid City, his fifth collaboration with Wes Anderson; Saverio Costanzo’s Finalmente L’alba; and lent his voice to the English-language version of Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award winning The Boy and The Heron. He just wrapped lensing Nadia Latif’s The Man in My Basement and Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night.
Blackfilmandtv.com's Wilson Morales talks to Nicholas Hoult and Willem Dafoe about Robert Eggers' Nosferatu.
