Bill Skarsgard recalls feeling like the Grinch during ‘Nosferatu’ transformation

Bill Skarsgård’s scary transformation into Nosferatu is finally being discussed by the actor.

Bill, who plays Count Orlok in Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, is opening up about the process of the transformation.

“I never felt like the character until I had everything on. So, full makeup and full costume,” The Crow star told Entertainment Weekly.

He recalled: “I was worried that I couldn’t perform through it, that it would feel like giant prosthetic pieces, and I couldn’t come alive through that,” Skarsgård says.

“There was definitely a stage when they hadn’t put everything on, where I was like, I look like the f—ing Grinch or a f—ing goblin. I did not like at all how it was translating,” he added.

The Hemlock Grove star recalled: “I remember our second camera test that we did. There’s no audio, there’s no voice recording. It’s just the camera, a lot of candles, and me sitting in a chair. Especially when it’s on film, you can actually hear the camera rolling, but you see that little red light, and then it’s go time. We had done a bunch of rehearsals before that, but that was the first time where I felt the cameras were alive, and I [could] start becoming this thing.”

“Yeah, there he is,” Eggers said, which made the IT actor feel relieved.

Bill Skarsgard explained: “Me sitting, looking the way I look, and doing the voice and physicality, it is so abstract, and it feels fake, and it feels contrived. So, you’re terrified because it’s something that you can’t really control. Either this will come alive, or it won’t. I can’t force it. It needs to be there.”