Bill Skarsgård as Noferatu. Gross and very sexualized.

Interesting to hear Skarsgård met Eggers all the way back in 2015 and has been offered several different roles in this. Worth noting that when they first met Skarsgård had yet to debut as Pennywise the Clown in It (2017).

Eggers mentioned Nosferatu then, and Skarsgård was eager for basically any role. First, he read for Friedrich Harding, a German ship merchant and a supporting (human) male character. That didn’t work, but he landed an offer for Thomas Hutter, the main protagonist.

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Even so, Eggers still went in another direction, casting Nicholas Hoult in the role of Hutter this go-round. Skarsgård didn’t give up hope. There were other roles, right? Hell, he’d already read for Harding way back when. But that part soon went to Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Skarsgård made peace with it. Sort of. “ ‘Robert and I are done!’ ” he jokes about how he felt at the time. “It was a fiery romance, but it never flourished!” Then, in a move that, to Skarsgård, felt like it came out of nowhere, Eggers reached out and asked him to read for Count Orlok. When the creative team was originally casting for the vampire, men in their mid-forties were being considered. Skarsgård would have been twenty years shy of that. But as time passed—and as Eggers and his team spoke with others in contention for the iconic role—the vision for the character transformed.