Together with her newest massive display screen function, Lily-Rose Depp had the possibility to flip the script on a traditional movie with a feminist skew.
At Thursday’s Los Angeles premiere of author/director Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu, the actress defined to Deadline what makes her character Ellen Hutter “so extremely empowering” within the remake of the 1922 German vampire silent movie, which was made by author Henrik Galeen and director F.W. Murnau.
“Ellen’s perspective is one which we’ve by no means gotten to see in such a central method as this one, and Rob made the deliberate option to make Ellen’s perspective the central one,” she stated on the purple carpet. “And we see the story actually unfold by way of her eyes, which I feel was such a lovely factor, and was an honor for me to play.
“And it’s very thrilling, as a result of I feel whereas, in fact, this can be a story we’re aware of, that is actually a contemporary take that could be very totally different from another iteration. The character, I discovered so extremely empowering. I really feel like there’s a lot power to her, she has a lot company, additionally, within the story, with out giving something away. She type of calls the pictures in a really cool method, and I discovered her extremely empowering and provoking. I beloved taking part in her,” added Depp.
Eggers’ additionally expressed his pleasure over telling the story from a unique perspective. “Within the 10 years of making an attempt to make the movie, from that first draft to now, hasn’t modified so much,” he famous.
Willem Dafoe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Robert Eggers, Lily-Rose Depp, Invoice Skarsgård and Nicholas Hoult attend the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Focus Options’ on Dec. 12, 2024 at TCL Chinese language Theater. (Jon Kopaloff/Getty Pictures)
“However I feel the factor that has essentially the most enchantment to me now with this model of the story is that it facilities round Lily-Rose Depp’s character, it’s the feminine protagonist’s story,” added Eggers. “The Murnau movie, which I like dearly, turns into Ellen’s story by the ultimate act, she turns into the heroine. However that is along with her from the very starting, which I used to be hopeful would create extra emotional and psychological depth. So, perhaps it does, you inform me.”
Invoice Skarsgård, who goes by way of fairly the transformation to painting the titular vampire Depend Orlok, additionally remembered studying an early model of Eggers’ script.
“Robert has been marinating this story ever since he was slightly boy,” he stated. “I learn the script the primary time 10 years in the past, and the script didn’t change all that a lot. So, he was very specific with the stuff that he wished. However when it comes to artistic freedom, when you could have a director that’s that particular, he goes, ‘I would like you to work inside this body.’ It’s liberating to an extent, since you go, right here’s my parameters, after which, what can I do inside these parameters? However the look of the character — Robert had made a digital drawing of the character that I noticed years earlier than we began to shoot, that appeared just like the man.
Nicholas Hoult and Invoice Skarsgard in Nosferatu (2024) (Focus Options/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Skarsgård joked, “That’s me. That’s what I appear to be on the within.”
Premiering Dec. 25 in U.S. theaters, Nosferatu stars Skarsgård as an historical Transylvanian vampire who stalks a haunted younger girl that turns into mysteriously obsessive about the creature. The movie additionally stars Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe.
Nosferatu is a remake of author Henrik Galeen and director F.W. Murnau’s 1922 German silent movie Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, which was based mostly on Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
