Lily-Rose Depp Details “Incredibly Empowering” ‘Nosferatu’ Role As Bill Skarsgård & Robert Eggers Reflect On 10-Year Journey To Remake (Exclusive)

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With her latest big screen role, Lily-Rose Depp had the chance to flip the script on a classic film with a feminist skew. At Thursday’s Los Angeles premiere of writer/director Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu, the actress explained to Deadline what makes her character Ellen Hutter “so incredibly empowering” in the remake of the 1922 German vampire silent film, which was made by writer Henrik Galeen and director F.W.

Murnau. “Ellen’s perspective is one that we’ve never gotten to see in such a central way as this one, and Rob made the deliberate choice to make Ellen’s perspective the central one,” she said on the red carpet. “And we see the story really unfold through her eyes, which I think was such a beautiful thing, and was an honor for me to play. “And it’s very exciting, because I think while, of course, this is a story we are familiar with, this is really a fresh take that is very different from any other iteration.

The character, I found so incredibly empowering. I feel like there’s so much strength to her, she has so much agency, also, in the story, without giving anything away.

She kind of calls the shots in a very cool way, and I found her incredibly empowering and inspiring. I loved playing her,” added Depp.