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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Rats in Nosferatu
How does one motivate 2,000 rats? Patiently.
The thing about rats, the Barešes said in an email, is that they’re very smart and sociable — until you put too many of them in a room: “When working with a big group, they all of a sudden lose their intelligence in the anonymity of the crowd and are very hard to coordinate and motivate.” Emma Corrin — who plays Anna Harding, best friend to Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen Hutter — had to film a scene covered in rats that crawled on their bare chest. So on Nosferatu, the Barešes motivated their animal actors to run from one place to another by letting them scurry into their rat houses, which are basically boxes where they can feel safe.
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