Lily-Rose Depp’s Nosferatu cramps were 100% practical

Nosferatu really takes his vampiric possession scenes to the next level. How, Really. The film’s star, Lily-Rose Depp, spends much of the film shaking so violently that you might try to call an exorcist from the comfort of your seat far away on the other side of the screen. What added to the horror was that Depp didn’t have to CGI her body to sell this loss of control. “The most important thing I look for in possession scenes is that they stay real,” director Robert Eggers said recently told Vanity Fair. “One of the wonderful things about Lily-Rose Depp’s performance is her fierce physicality – people think it’s CG-manipulated or sped-up wirework, but it’s all her.”

“When I watch a possession horror film, I just know that there are all kinds of visual effects at play. There’s no way you could ever really do that,” Eggers continued. Maybe you’ll think the same thing when you watch his latest epic – maybe want At least you’d think so – but the director wanted his audience to consider the question: “Could this happen to me or my wife or my sister or my son?”

To achieve the effect, it must be done beforehand told deadline that he hired a choreographer who specialized in Japanese butohwhich translates to “Dance of Total Darkness”. (He had worked with the same choreographer, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie The witch.) “It’s fascinating… When you watch videos of it, you see these people with a completely blank stare – it really feels like they’re not there anymore. “There’s room for something else,” Depp told Vanity Fair of the style in a November profile.

According to Eggers, the team knew they only had about three or four takes to capture the film’s climactic confrontation between Depp’s character and her husband (played by Nicholas Hoult) “because it was so physically demanding for her.” Plus, she would get through it “Screaming and everything else destroys her voice.” It was also a “very vulnerable” place for Depp. “I tried to be there as little as possible and allow everything I wanted to conjure to completely overwhelm me,” she said in her profile. “It’s an emotionally destabilizing place. That brings out a lot. It was definitely very physically and emotionally demanding…It was important for me to take care of myself.” It may be important for you to do the same after watching it.