Honouring the amount of rodent stars in F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, Robert Eggers’ remake probably has more rats than Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
About 5,000 of them, according to star Nicholas Hoult, who appeared on The Graham Norton Show to unpack the film’s wave of rats his character must wade through — some of whom were trained (just some). But who has 5,000 rats to give?
“Who do you call?” Norton asked, miming a phone call. “Do you have 5,000? Yes we do.”
“Thank God you called! Finally!” replies Hoult.
On the couch with Sigourney Weaver, Lolly Adefope, and Jamie Oliver, Hoult also spoke about how many times Bill Skarsgard, who plays Count Orlok in Nosferatu, had to be trapped in a sarcophagus in full prosthetics with said rats and added maggots. It was a lot.
Nosferatu hits cinemas Dec. 25.
