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‘Nosferatu’ Director Robert Eggers Thanks ‘SpongeBob’ for Introducing Young Audiences to Iconic Vampire

Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin star in Eggers' telling of Nosferatu, a.k.a. Count Orlok.

At the Los Angeles premiere of the film on Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter asked Eggers if he knew that the Nickelodeon cartoon introduced many kids to the iconic vampire. The filmmaker confirmed he was familiar with the SpongeBob element and explained, “There was a show called Muppet Babies when I was a kid that would play little clips of like Lon Chaney’s Phantom of the Opera and early versions of Cyrano de Bergerac and stuff; that weird cartoon gave me exposure to a lot of movies that I watched when I was a little older with memories from Muppet Babies. Egger’s version of Nosferatu sees Bill Skarsgård transform into the terrifying vampire, who is infatuated with a haunted young woman (played by Lily Rose-Depp).

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