Bill Skarsgård has been praised for taking his gruelling ‘Nosferatu’ make-up transformation “well”.
Bill Skarsgård has been praised for taking his gruelling ‘Nosferatu’ make-up transformation ‘well’
The actor, 33, was covered from head to toe in special effects – including additional elements for his tongue and eyes, with only the soles of his feet left untouched – during the six-hour daily process of turning him into vampire Count Orlok for Robert Eggers’ recently released horror film.
Robert, 40, has now told Variety about the transformation: “I was not so interested in Bill’s features, aside from his eyes.
“The things that make Orlok not just an intimidating, masculine human being, is the fact that he’s also decaying and dead.
“Even the design of the teeth needed to be something that could be f***** up.”
‘Nosferatu’, a reimagining of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic of the same name, required Oscar-nominated makeup effects designer David White to create more than 62 prosthetic pieces for Bill, applied by a team of six.
One of the key elements of Orlok’s look was his elongated fingers.
Robert added: “I wanted to extend Bill’s fingers ever so slightly, and I asked David about creating something to push the envelope.”
David initially experimented with soft mechanics, but the design was too cumbersome and lacked dexterity.
The 55-year-old told Variety: “I was playing with the idea of soft mechanics to extend them, but they’re really long and they weren’t as dexterous,”
He eventually opted for a dense material that allowed…
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