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The whole point was I was playing Max Schreck who plays Nosferatu.

So I was very familiar with the film."

Willem Dafoe in Robert Eggers� Nosferatu (2024)

He smiles adding: “It’s been with me a long time.

One of the major differences between the movies is how it tackles Count Orlok’s appearance.

It looked like a dead Romanian nobleman, a guy that had been dead for a while.

Bill Skarsgard as Count Orlok in Nosferatu stood in a window

And it came from someplace and it was steer of all the other vampires and Nosferatu before it.”

Nosferatu is released in US theaters on Christmas Day and UK cinemas on New Year’s Day.

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