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‘Nosferatu’ star Nicholas Hoult owns Bill Skarsgård’s prosthetic penis from the film ‘Framed At Home’

‘Nosferatu’ star Nicholas Hoult owns Bill Skarsgård’s prosthetic penis from the film ‘Framed At Home’

Nosferatu star Nicholas Hoult received a gift so bizarre he won’t soon forget it.

In an Elle video published Monday, Hoult said the horror film’s director Robert Eggers sent him a prosthetic penis that fellow actor Bill Skarsgård used in his portrayal of the legendary vampire Count Orlok.

“I had Count Orlok’s prosthetic penis made at home,” Hoult told co-star Lily-Rose Depp. “There’s a scene where Bill Skarsgård is sipping my blood and Robert Eggers asked afterwards, ‘How was that for you?’ … And I said, ‘I could feel his prosthetic penis on my leg.'”

The accessory was apparently worn by Skarsgård as part of his transformation into the tall, bald vampire known for his claw-like fingers, pale skin and pointy ears.

Hoult explained that Eggers “had the prosthetic framed and sent it home to me.”

The vampire character Count Orlok, played here by German actor Max Schreck, can be seen in the 1922s "Nosferatu."
The vampire character Count Orlok, played here by German actor Max Schreck, can be seen in “Nosferatu” from 1922.

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But that wasn’t the end of it. Since the gift was damaged when it arrived, the “X-Men” star said he took it with him to be repaired.

“The frame was broken when it arrived (at my house), so I had to take it to the local frame shop and say, ‘Hey, dude, can you fix this?'” Hoult recalls.

Hoult said the prop oddly raised some eyebrows at the man who worked there.

“He kind of didn’t even blink the first time, and then when I came back to pick it up, I think he realized how strange it was, what I was imagining, possibly something like this vampire penis,” he shared .

“He was like, ‘Is this some kind of collector’s item?'” Hoult said. “I thought, ‘Yeah, you could say that.'”

Skarsgård recently told Deadline that his transformation into Count Orlok was “uncomfortable.”

“The prosthetics took forever,” he told the outlet in a story published earlier this month. “You were very hot and very itchy and sticky. And so that I could just use the voice that we worked so hard on, there was a whole regimen every morning.”

“Nosferatu,” a remake of the 1922 horror classic of the same name, also stars Willem Dafoe and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on Wednesday.

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Check out the Elle video with Hoult here.

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