When it came to creating his take on the legendary monster Count Orlok for Nosferatu, director Robert Eggers wasn't in the mood for splitting hairs, especially the ones he chose to apply to the face of Bill Skarsgård. In an interview with Empire, the director of the 2024 horror film responded to the surprising bit of kickback he received for giving the unholy creature a twirlable mustache to hide those fangs and do away with the smooth scalped ghoulish presence from the original 1922 film from F. W. Murnau.
“I get that,” Eggers confessed. “It’s a hard pill for some people to swallow. But I also don’t care, because there’s just no fucking way that this guy wouldn’t have a moustache,” the director declared. “I love the way Max Schreck looks too [in Murnau’s original], and it’s a change. So, fair play, as people say over here.”
