Willem Dafoe, Robert Eggers & Bill Skarsgård Break Down Nosferatu | Freeze Frame
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- In this episode of Freeze Frame, Eggers, Skarsgård and Dafoe recall their first introductions to the famous vampire, how they developed the characters and what they enjoyed the most about working with each other.
The film reimagines the 1922 horror classic of the same name and follows the fearsome Count Orlok and his infatuation with a haunted young woman, Ellen, played by Lily-Rose Depp. The impressive ensemble also features Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin. “This is such a remarkable cast of very brave, committed, hungry actors who really wanted to be there,” Eggers shared. “It was such an enjoyable experience.”
#esquire #nosferatu
love how eggers muse is a 69yo man
😂😂😂 as it should... It's Dafoe 🤗🥰
Fits with his 690 year old style
Nice.
Dafoe is a treasure. ❤
I was so impressed with Bill's voice as Count Orlok/Nosferatu...he totally was immersed in this role, you can't see any trace of the same guy in this interview. Incredible.
It was downright haunting. It barely even sounded human.
I’m pretty sure he never blinked in the role
I wish we could see him get into it hehe w his normal clothes on
It was really incredible
No idea why I didn't work for me. I found it outright silly and the accent almost comical. For whatever reason Oldmans Dracula worked much better for me. "It is no laughing matter" still haunts me.
If cinematography and costumes don't get nominated for the oscars, it's an insult. Visually this movie is a gorgeous work of art.
Nobody should give a fuc@ about Oscars.
What matters is ART not the approval of a bunch of rich people in Hollywood
She deserves best actress
Wasn’t diverse enough for an oscar
@@r3dcoat397 Oh, please. Last year Oppenheimer won. And plenty of films that don't have diverse casts are nominated.
The modern cinema crowd needs to disregard the Oscars...it is a parody and frankly an insult to the industry
Extended cut on the blu-ray confirmed! Thank you, god!!!
Have not bought a Blu-ray since Avengers end game. That dead streak will end with this movie.
@@LEVIAHANstupid. You should buy more blus
!!!!!!! I can't wait. As soon as I left the theater I wanted more. Such a great film
@@LEVIAHANi’ve never bought one, but this one is a must for horror fans!
Are you in the US? I am and I can't seem to find the blu ray online
Robert’s face when Bill says he’s one of the greatest filmmakers alive. Gotta be absolutely unfathomable to hear something like that
So true 🥹
Absolutely, and I agree with Bill. Robert is my favorite filmaker, can not wait for his next project.
Robert Eggers is the best working director/writer/filmaker going. Dude just keeps pushing the bar
Lily Rose Depp absolutely killed this role. She’s a star
A nepo-baby who has actual talent. A rare thing, indeed.
@@AxelordSMIJESit’s not just her - Bill is also part of a nepo family. It’s interesting that they are never mentioned in this discussion. Is it because they’re talented? Seemingly someone being good at their job erases the fact they got the job through nepotism in the public’s witch-hunting eye. I guess Lily will be absolved with this performance.
@@worrywirtmost of the time in the case of nepotism, the person who’s benefitting really shouldn’t be doing whatever they’re doing and they’re not great at it nor have they earned it. Bill and Lily both definitely benefited because it got their feet in the door, and that’s already 90% of “making it,” but they’re actually good in whatever they’re in so people don’t mind.
Plenty of Hollywood nepo babies come and go
She's eww
Willem dafoe is such a treasure. He’s a master of his craft who remains humble and stays giving flowers to his peers. Love him so much
Couldn't agree more
Bill should be nominated for an Oscar. He was incredible.
I’m convinced Bill deserves an Oscar for this performance. Have never seen someone transform like this. Just incredible.
I agree completely, but I'm afraid he might suffer the same fate as Andy Serkis, who deserves several Oscar nominations by now. The Academy seems to have trouble recognizing that an actor whose face is mostly or totally hidden has to work twice as hard. Then again, the Academy is notorious for its many mistakes over the years. I'm not hopeful for Bill getting an Oscar for this performance.
the Oscars are a complete joke, and Nosferatu not getting any nominations in the main categories is proof.
Eggers is four for four. I'm glad he's somewhat young, imagine the films he'll be making in his old age?
megalopolis 🤣😂😇
@@JamesParatiiArts 💀💀
I haven’t seen The Northman but The Lighthouse is kinda……….. weird…
@@caleighhraee weird is good.
@@caleighhraeeWeird, yeah, but absolutely awesome. A perfectly crafted mindfuck.
This film is I think a very intriguingly presented story about trauma, abuse and listening to victims, how hurt people struggle with loneliness and being unable to articulate their pain and how expressions of that trauma makes others uncomfortable in so many different ways. And Orlok himself just being yes this being of carnal desire, but as an abuser he reaches his victim by exploiting her base desires, her desire for companionship and intimacy at her lowest low. And the scary part is that there is some kind of give there, he’s able to be truly abusive because he is able to give her something and there can be such shame in reconciling that give and take of an abusive relationship, like she is disgusted that she enjoyed parts of it. She has to convince herself of the truth, which is that she isn’t like him because of that.
This exploration of her character is ultimately what grounds this film and makes it so disturbing.
Incredible take there, my friend.
I have always thought Bill was a great actor, but this was next level. Lily was incredible aswell.
Extended version?
TAKE MY MONEY!!!
Interesting he said it ruined the tension and yet it still ended up in the extended cut.
@@jeremyamacextended cut doesn’t necessarily mean the best cut
@@jeremyamacHe meant in context to the trailer.
It’s 4 mins longer.
I love Eggers reasoning for redoing Nosferatu at all. He did a great job! Best director working in horror
I wouldn’t even say horror. Northman and Lighthouse aren’t, though some might say Lighthouse is. I’ll say ‘period piece dramas’. All 4 of his films are in some capacity.
@@TheProphegy They are all flawless and you're right. Best working.
@@TheProphegy They certainly have dashes of horror, I would say what he does more lines up with 'folk stories' to an extent. But in the oldest, classical, 'dark fairytale' sense of the term. Pre-horror 'horror', if that makes sense?
@@Blisterdude123I feel like people put horror into such a small, limited box. To me, all four of his films qualify as horror because that’s not an insult or a limitation, it’s a description of what they are: a story of these character’s horrifying ordeals.
They are period pieces AND they are horror films. No need to limit their descriptions due to our own personal mental limitations.
Lilly Rose-Depp was the best performance of the year. Skarsgard isn’t there, that’s Orlock. Dafoe is chewing the scenery up in the best way possible and Eggers removes all doubt that he’s one of the best directors of our time.
She was great, but Herr Knock *knocked* it out of the park. Holy hell.
Put some respect on my man, nicholas hoult too. He acted his ass off and his scenes with bill were a joy to see considering how tense they were.
Just came out of the theater, Nosferatu was absolutely amazing. God Damn
Bill's got a lot of presence and gravitas for a young man, plus his imposing Skarsgard physicality. VHe waa a great choice for Orlok...
The “As I feared…” moment is one of my favorite parts of the movie. The perfect amount of tension breaking while keeping things very tense.
The tension breaking moment for me was “now, my good fellow…why would you do that?” Legendary delivery
@ So so good.
Robert Eggers is one bad ass filmmaker! The Lighthouse is his underrated masterpiece. Looking forward to this extended cut of Nosferatu!!
Hoping its a three hour version.
If I was studying to become an actor this interview would be 60% of my theory studies….Masterclass as to how you approach, develop, enhance your character will adding layers upon layers of unique gestures and characteristics to create something utterly special and unique throughout. Saw the movie last night, that was a wonderful, poignant moment in the cinema screen as there is now other way or place to enjoy it fully for the 1st time 🖤
At 7:32 Willem nearly fell asleep, he opened his eyes asap and then checked his surroundings If anyone noticed it, love him :D
😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao
imo, bill and lily deserve oscar noms. i know it’s very implausible, but i hope they get them, did an incredible job. amazing movie.
Everyone in this movie gave stellar performances imo
Orlok shouldn’t have had a mustache. That was a mistake
@@someguy42093 why do y’all care so much abt the mustache? it’s not that deep. he was meant to be despicable and literally rotting. not some sexy vampire.
@@bittertruth838 exactly. So why did he have a mustache?
@@someguy42093 it’s noticeable you haven’t read much about nosferatu. they said in that age vampires had moustache, he was like romanian-ish. instead of asking me, read up.
Bill deserves awards for this. He's incredible! So is Sir Willem, as always!
The Witch is still my favorite horror film. This man is a phenomenal director. Super excited for more
100% agree. The Witch in my opinion is one of the best horror movies ever made.
And all of Eggers movies are wonderful, all in very different ways. It's the first time for me, with Nosferatu, that i get super excited knowing that a horror movie will be out, and then i watch it and i am even more excited.
Robert Eggers truly is an artist.
Him and Jarin Blaschke are a match made in heaven.
I thought both The Lighthouse and Nosferatu topped The Witch, but it's still excellent.
You mean the VVitch 😂
He gave Orlok a mustache
I do however want to mention how amazing these actors were in this film, I was just blown away! I actually love that Nicholas Hoult got to be part of 2 "Dracula" movies and they were so vastly different. But the cinematography of both were pretty amazing! I can't say enough about Willem Dafoe's acting of course.... But Lily-Rose really pulled up for this movie! Honestly I think the way they had her going in some weird directions for her character, but she did it all and did it so well! Great job cast!
Orlok had mustache. Nobody wants that
Cant wait for the Blu-ray I can almost see it in my hands
Orlok had a mustache. Bad.
@@someguy42093Obviously you are illiterate in history because in reality he would have a culturally and historically appropriate fashion sense. The moustache (and outfit) is totally consistent with a centuries old Romanian Vlad the Impaler type of archetype.
@@TheEternalOuroborosExactly 💯
Hoping and PRAYING we get a really nice physical release like Arrow did for The Lighthouse or Second Sight with The Witch, we need a booklet/script/poster/soundtrack, EVERYTHING
When people look back at this time they may say it was one of creative bankruptcy as far as film is concerned. But Eggers and a few other select directors will be remembered as standing out for their visual style, unique storytelling ability and desire to go against the grain when it comes to present day technique
People say that about every period - but the cream rises to the top with time. That’s why I mostly watch movies 30+ years old that have proved themselves. But if the handful of current directors, Eggers is a favourite of mine (no wonder, as I am an archaeologist). it’s important to support filmmakers who are doing interesting work now, so they can keep working! I think he will be remembered as one of the greats, almost single-handedly reshaping the horror genre in the 2010s-2020s.
Robert Eggers hasn’t missed. Easily my favorite director currently working.
Love Eggers, Skarsgard, and Dafoe! The talents in this room are incomparable! Lily Rose Depp has grown as an actor and deserves an Oscar nomination for this role👏 ❤
But Orlok had a mustache
Saw this movie Yesterday
It was a pure masterpiece ! Robert Eggers always delivers and all the cast was amazing, as all the crew was. Really a masterpiece bill skarsgard is amazing in this, i think he should be nominated for an oscar.
Listening to Skarsgard describe his process and the details of him getting ready to work on set gets my adrenaline going. 🤘
Bro I am so buying the blu ray!!! I might even grab two copies, to leave one unopened for my kids when they’re older
1:34 Roger's face😂 yes, you're one of the greatest filmmakers ever
It's Robert though
"You know, I'm a little bit of a vampire myself."
Willem is the GOAT
Imagine Eggers is being called one of the greatest living film makers only 4 films into his career
I love it when the boys make a movie
There is some great stuff with all women, but men make the best movies and TV.
@@Mcnutty924 I dont know how one would even begin to qualify that statement
@@Mcnutty924the sexism is disgusting
@@Mcnutty924you’re missing the whole point of this comment
@@GlassesAndCoffeeMugs Me neither
Willem is such a powerhouse of an actor, everything with him just has to be seen.
1 min 21 secs, Bill you delivered, you were absolutely amazing
I'm obsessed with this movie and all the actors. Such a perfect cast and everyone were amazing (especially Bill, mindblowing performance)
4:00 I love how Robert refers to Count Orlok as "Bill" 🤣
His buddy, Bill Orlok
Orlok had a mustache. It made me so sad 😞
@@someguy42093 why? Looked more like he should imo, like a Count/Vlad the Impaler
@ nah. Orlok is a hairless vamp. Always has been. This is NOT Dracula.
@@someguy42093 nah.. you don't know what Nosferatu is based on? 🤭 Eggers took inspiration from everything instead of copying the existing look...
Next up. Faust. Willem Dafoe or Bill Skarsgard as Mephistopheles.
Dafoe as Faust in an Eggers picture is a terrific idea, I can see it in my mind's eye already.
Bill said that, but... he's gonna be playing Pennywise for "IT: Welcome to Derby" again, an eldritch monster that *eats children.*
It's just marketing, Bill hyping up how evil Orlok is as a character, that it even shook him to his core when.. it really didn't. Actors have been doing this for decades.
@allthenamesiwantedweretaken spoilers but Count Orlok also partook in some children flesh in the film
That is a great idea
This would be so awesome
This movie is one of the best horror movies ever
The music, the lighting, the acting, top notch
All of them being so appreciating and modest. ❤
Nosferatu is one of the greatest films I’ve seen in years.
I think it's very good, I watched it yesterday as here in Italy it got out yesterday, I don't understand all the negative critics, it's not an easy movie to make, and he did it masterfully
Who listens to critics anymore? If I think something looks cool, I see it. If not, I don't. If anything, I see a negative review and I tend to think the opposite is true. Unless it's just so obviously bad that it is being universally panned by everyone who sees it.
Critics are either kissing asses or trying to be looking smart by overly criticising good things.
They will praise the bad and despise the good just to act like they know better than others. Pretentious and useless, way too often.
This movie is wonderful.
"We have not become so much enlightened as we have been blinded by the gaseous light of science"
My favorite line in the film, and a familiar line of thought to those of us familiar with the C.S. Lewis work "The Discarded Image", and equally to us who understand the disenchanted nature of our post-enlightenment scientism-driven "modernity".
I’m very excited to see the extended cut.
It's worth noting how stoked actors are to work with Eggars. I wouldn't gloss over that. That's a big deal.
the extended version better be 3+ hrs this is the only movie i have ever wanted to be SO much longer, i need more of thomas in the castle interacting with orlok and for the end to be slowed down a bit and wrapped up in less of a hasty speed!
Bill as Count Orlok looked SO MUCH like his real-life brother Gustaf (Floki in VIkings) 🖤
3 great artists and professionals 🙏🤩👍
Knowing that an extended edition will be released immediately put a grin on my face
Rob is definitely my favorite director of the last 20 years, I've pondered this a since _The Lighthouse_ blew me away, and honestly I can't think of another filmmaker who's work has effected me more. With only 4 feature length films, he has already established himself as a massive talent and trailblazer in the artform, giving all the great filmmakers a run for their money. He's making the dark, deeply immersive and passionate cinema I've always pictured myself making, and with such spectacular actors and actresses every time, and the repeated collaborations with Dafoe who I love, I just know that I'm going to love whatever this guy does next. _Nosferatu_ literally just came out and I'm already anxious for his next project, which appears to be a sequel to Labyrinth. Even if Bowie's no longer with us, I know Rob is going to make something spectacular to expand that world, that greatly admires and honors the original work 🙏
why does no one ask or mention the fact that Willem not only played the actor who played Nosferatu but was nominated for best supporting actor for that role. The dude has been in the world before just as a different character
You have no idea how many interviewers asked about that
What movie is that
@@noridesleft Shadow of the Vampire. Dafoe played the actor Max Schreck in a dramatization of the making of the original Nosferatu. He was the dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
@@SimpleTricksNonsensehell yeah, I love info dump Easter egg humor!
“Never go full retard, man.”
@@SimpleTricksNonsenseHe actually plays a real vampire they get to act as Orlok in the movie with a fake identity of method actor Max Shreck. So he's actually a dude playing a dude disguised as a dude playing a dude
We need extended cut of this interview!
These guys killed it. Home run
14:27 the first trailers had him saying ‘we are now in the presence of the Vampyr’
So cool. I noticed this in the theatres, that trailer line was changed
I love Willem Defoe....he is bad ass
I just watched movie in a theatre, they are were brilliant, music was awesome, script is beyond amazing, overall movie is masterpiece and yes, William is truly a treasure 😍
Fun fact ... Willem Dafoe portrayed Count Orlok in a 2000 film called Shadow of the Vampire
No, he played Max Schreck 😉
I love that extended edition Blu-ray is the takeaway from this. Take my money please
Now we need the rest of the Skarsgård brothers in another Eggers movie.
Just watched the movie and it brings sadness and torment into the people who simply lost their way and seek tenderness in their own superficial way.
I've seen it twice now and I love it! Extended Blu-ray? Gotta have it!
Robert Eggers is really one of the greatest directors alive
This was a career-best performance for Bill Skarsgard.
I better see at least some oscars nods, but there are a few individuals and departments that definitely deserve an oscar too! Perfect film
Love that Eggers is motivated to center female characters. We need more of that in the arts and in life.
Women are the absolute center of social consciousness. Nearly everything is catered to the needs and desires of women. Wtf are you talking about?
Wonderful movie, must see on the cinema screen with a good sound system
Pretty sure Robert’s an actual vampire. They should make a movie where that’s the premise. Maybe have Willem DaFoe play him.
This movie was great!
watched it the other night .....brilliant film 👌
I will be buying the Blu-ray yes please and thank you 😂👍
Is it me or does Bill seem a little traumatized by the pressure and experience of this role
i think they also put him in the spotlight a lot because of his intense transformation. he has to not only transform and preform but then talk about it in 500 diff interviews. hes probably beyond burnt out lol
He’s just tired of doing press. It’s just another role/job for him, it’s not that serious
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY hope we can get an Eggers Collection before the inevitable death of the blu-ray format.
Nosferatu was hands down the best movie of 2024. I saw many major films this year. TERRIFIER 3 comes in 2nd ❤😂
Some actors seem a little doofy, and others, like those who have worked with Eggers, are clearly real masters of a craft.
5:58 he has such a cute smile 🥰
I love Eggers, he's a true nerd ❤
Andrew Petiprin has an outstanding review of the film at The Catholic World Report, titled "Nosferatu is a frightening wake-up call". Description: Robert Eggers’ film is beautifully shot, and the collected performances of Depp, Hoult, Defoe, and Skarsgård are as good as I’ve seen on screen in more than a year.
Love this movie do a second one. Longer pls
3:50 NOSFERA-TU William Defoe knew that shit was funny!!! 😂
@1:06 no mention that his brother got top billing in Eggers’ previous film ?!
Nicholas Hoult played a person consumed by dread in the face of evil to perfection.
A masterpiece
I loved this movie so much
Y’know! I actually enjoyed Bills portrayal of The Crow and Pennywise in ‘It’ . But with his performance of such an odious creature, I hope he get rewarded with Academy accolades
Going to cinema to watch that movie 😮
Eggers Cut! 🧛🏻
Bill could play Jack White in a bipoic. Has the same face structure and way of expressing.
I would really, really like to see Robert Eggers make a Solomon Kane flick adapting something like Hills of the Dead or something 🙏
Amazing people. Good people get good things.
I think,bill is the only one can play JOKER after the grear heath ledger
Find someone who looks at you and inspires you to make/work in wicked genre gems like Willem Dafoe and Robert Eggers do each other lmao
Incredible visual storyteller but i still think Eggers has something to prove with the actual substance of his films. He certainly doesn’t hang with the like of Yorgos Lanthimos or PTA in my humble opinion. The Lighthouse or the witch are still his most fully formed films.
is he doing hansel and gretel next i want to see that with his style.
Amei o filme. Muito bom
I think I'd like a bagel with my coffee!