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But star Bill Skarsgard persuaded him otherwise.

“I sent him a backstory of Orlok that I wrote.

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So we came to it together to achieve what I was after.

The Count Orlok star has other ideas.

“It’s very subtle, and its not there often, but it is enough.

Bill Skarsgard as Count Orlok in Nosferatu stood in a window

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Who knows, maybe Orlok will come out on top this time.

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