Nicholas Hoult has 5,000 new friends since filming Nosferatu…Okay, rodent friends.
The actor stars in Robert Eggers’ supernatural horror film alongside Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgård, and he was most recently in The Graham Norton Show The film apparently had a “huge budget.”
“I think we had about 5,000 rats,” Holt recalled. “Some of them were trained, too. They were all trained, and I was like, ‘You can’t train them all.’ “Some of them have been trained.
“They’re incontinent rats, so they’re a bit smelly,” host Graham Norton quipped. “They’re not incontinent, they just don’t care. Why should they care? ‘Oh, I’ll hold it.’ “
“I’ve heard other people say they’re incontinent, and that sounds smart,” Holt said with a laugh. “You’re right, they’re just rats. They just pee and poop everywhere. Luckily, I just have to wade through them.
NosferatuA remake of the 1922 German film of the same name, it tells the gothic story of obsession between a haunted young woman and a terrifying vampire who becomes obsessed with her.
this superman The actor later recalled one specific scene involving rats, however, Skarsgård was left traumatized by his association with the furry rodents.
“He had this scene where he had to be locked in a sarcophagus,” Holt recalled. “He’s in there, with the full Count Orlok prosthetic makeup. He’s wearing contact lenses that make him blind. And he’s lying there, and they fill it with rats, and he’s covered in maggots. And then they also Close the lid so he’s trapped inside with them.
He continued, “I do feel sorry for him because we would do this a few times and I would push the sarcophagus and they would say, ‘Ah Nick, you have to move your hand here or it’s not going to work. It has to be pushed faster. A little or something. I was like, “Sorry! “They’d say, ‘Again, Bill, because Nick…’ and I’d be like, ‘Oh, sorry!’
Nosferatu Releases December 25th.
