Bill Skarsgård wishes us to have sophisticated sexual feelings about his variation of Nosferatu’s Rely Orlok. He’s the star of Robert Eggers’s forthcoming remake of F.W. Murnau’s original German Expressionist vampire horror (which is an unauthorized Dracula adaptation). Murnau’s bloodsucker is not a brooding guy who sparkles in the daylight or a very hot coven chief who runs a BDSM nightclub or a chaotic bisexual, he’s scraggly seeking, what with the regrettable gaps in between his extensive thin fangs and the fact that he desperately wants to get his eyebrows threaded. It begs the issue: Will Skarsgård’s Orlok be one particular of those people conventionally alluring vampires, considering the resource material? “He’s gross,” Skarsgård claims in an interview with Esquire revealed May possibly 29. “But it is incredibly sexualized. It is participating in with a sexual fetish about the electric power of the monster and what that appeal has to you. Ideally you will get a minor little bit captivated by it and disgusted by your attraction at the exact same time.” He doesn’t notify Esquire considerably else about the film, but we know the most essential reality now: It is a movie for the freaks.
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