With his long, pale-skinned fingers, sharp teeth, and hunched silhouette, Nosferatu’s Count Orlok is one of the most striking horror figures of all time. In Robert Eggers’ take on the character, though, which is set to release in December, actor Bill Skarsgård hopes to turn him into a bit of… a pin-up?
While promoting his upcoming action-fantasy The Crow, the actor teased his version’s look in a new interview with Esquire, explaining that while his bloodsucker is undeniably “gross”, he’s “very sexualized”, too. “I do not think people are gonna recognize me in it. It’s playing with a sexual fetish about the power of the monster and what that appeal has to you,” Skarsgård continued. “Hopefully you’ll get a little bit attracted by it and disgusted by your attraction at the same time.”
