Nosferatu Interview: Robert Eggers on His Passion Project - "It's Delightful to Not Hate the Movie"

For 10 years, writer and director Robert Eggers has been working on his adaptation of Nosferatu, a project he spoke with Collider's Perri Nemiroff about shortly before The Witch hit theaters in 2016. His fascination with the material actually goes even further back (we're talking high school), so it's little wonder its theatrical release has the auteur feeling a little "vulnerable." But having already received critical acclaim, it's certainly a triumphant and inspiring look back at a time when a filmmaker like Eggers would say, "I think it seems very disgusting and presumptuous and megalomaniacal and offensive for someone in my position to say they want to do Nosferatu next."

In this interview, Eggers revisits a time when, rather than Bill Skarsgård, he himself played the sinister Count Orlok, back before he'd honed his skills with The Lighthouse and the "scope and scale of The Northman." He also reveals which Nosferatu character he most identifies with now and discusses the frame he's most proud of and how he knew the "raw and ferocious" Lily-Rose Depp was the perfect fit for his leading lady.

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