Bill Skarsgård has played some dark and twisted characters throughout his career, but it seems that Count Orlok in Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu might be the limit.

While speaking with Empire, Skarsgård sounds like he wants a break from portraying such nefarious characters. “When we were done with it, I was like, ‘I never want to play something this evil again. I never want to put on prosthetics again’,” he said. “It really affected me. Orlok is an occult sorcerer, and it did a number on me in terms of just trying to inhabit that space.“

We still haven’t seen a full image of Skarsgård as Count Orlok, but it’s said to be quite the transformation. The actor even worked with an opera singer to lower his voice by a whole octave. “The voice was the thing I worked the hardest at,” he said. “For a month-and-a-half leading up to the shoot,...