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Why Nosferatu's Creative Team Won't Forget Bill Skarsgard's Prosthetic Penis
The creative team behind Nosferatu opened up to Us Weekly about that awkward prosthetic penis scene and how involved Bill Skarsgard was in creating Count Orlok’s look
Adding a prosthetic penis onto his body for his role as Count Orlok in Nosferatu, however, was a new experience — one that created a memorable moment not only for Skarsgård’s character on screen but for costar Nicholas Hoult ’s Thomas Hutter and the film’s creative team. “With [Nick’s character] Thomas, they had a scene where Orlok was sucking his blood and the penis kept rubbing on his leg and he didn’t know how to react to him,” Traci Loader, Nosferatu ’s lead makeup designer, told Us Weekly in an exclusive interview. Hoult himself has been candid about the awkward moment on set, telling Elle in a recent interview that after voicing that he could feel the prop pushing up against his leg, director Robert Eggers sent him a surprise gift.
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