Nosferatu Creative Team on Creating Bill Skarsgard’s Prosthetic Penis

Fans probably won’t forget Bill SkarsgårdA full-time former as a diminutive Count Orlok Nosferatu – but the creative team behind the scenes is always busy.

Heavy prosthetics are nothing new for Skarsgård, 34, as he has been transformed into various levels of bizarre creatures in films such as It again A crow. He adds a prosthetic penis to his body for his role as Count Orlok in Nosferatu, However, it was a new experience – one that created a memorable moment not only for Skarsgård’s on-screen character but also for the costar. Nicholas HoultThomas Hutter and the film’s creative team.

“With [Nick’s character] Thomas, they had a scene where Orlok was sucking blood and the pipe kept rubbing his leg and he didn’t know what to do with him,” Traci Loader, NosferatuA leading makeup designer, she told Us Weekly in a special interview.

“I don’t think you’ll ever forget that moment,” the head of the film’s hair department, Suzanne Stokes-Muntonhe added, to which Loader replied, “No, that will live forever!”

The audience gets their first glimpse of the prosthetic appendage in the third act when Thomas tries to escape Orlok’s castle after realizing he is being eaten by an ancient vampire. As he finds his way to the basement, he tries to put the sleeping Orlok to sleep but he wakes him up instead. As Tomas runs for his life, Orlok emerges from his sarcophagus, revealing that he is naked.

As for why the prosthetic lip was needed to be filmed in the first place, the head prosthetic makeup effects designer David White – who created the prop – gave Us some understanding of the area.

“[Bill] I knew it was coming, and as soon as I saw that shot in the frame, I thought, ‘Hey, here are the questions that come with that.’ Because until that time no one said anything,” said White. “It was something created above and beyond Bill… We had to find a way to make the whole body work for the shot where he stands up from his sarcophagus. So, there was no way around it.”

Hoult himself has been coy about the difficult time on set, he said Elle in a recent interview that after expressing that he felt a prop push his leg, the director Robert Eggers he sent her a wonderful gift.

“As a gift-wrapper, Rob framed it, and then sent it to my house,” Hoult told the store, noting that he eventually had to take the prosthetic to a craft store after the gift arrived damaged.

“When I go back to get it, I think [the shop owner] the clock, like, how strange it was that I was shaping this vampire bat,” explained Hoult. “And he was like, ‘Is this some kind of collector?’ and I said, ‘Hm, you can say that.’

While the fake genitalia may have posed some challenges for Hoult, dressing it up was no problem for Skarsgård. White said Us the actor was the ultimate “master”.

Skarsgård was also involved in the creative process, according to his team and had a say in helping Orlok’s moustache. The facial hair had to be much longer and a different color than the final product, due to Skarsgård’s input.

“There were several different sizes of mustaches to choose from,” White recalls. “I gave a variety. It started out a little bit bigger, believe it or not, it was bigger than it is now, then it got smaller and if you look closely, it’s very narrow in the middle and that’s done on purpose so you can see a little bit of the teeth and everything under there.”

He continued: “I added a little silver at the end, which I thought would be really lovely and give it a bit more character and suggest some wear, but not make it too far. And Bill knew those color changes. So he agreed and wanted it to be.”

White added that while on set, Skarsgård often stayed in character and was “as quiet and in the shadows as Orlok would be.” Seeing the actor in full costume, however, was much funnier behind the scenes than one might think.

“When he started hunting, he was half dressed and there were people running below,” Loader recalled with a laugh.

Nosferatu is playing in theaters now.