Nicholas Hoult reveals ‘Nosferatu’ director’s unusual rule

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Nicholas Hoult revealed in a conversation with Hugh Grant that his Nosferatu director Robert Eggers discouraged the cast from moving their eyebrows while filming.The unusual piece of direction was mentioned as part of a reunion between Hoult and Grant hosted by Vanity Fair, 21 years after they starred together in the comedy About A Boy.

Grant has recently won acclaim for his first foray into horror with A24’s Heretic and during the chat, Hoult praised him for infusing some comedy into his portrayal of a sinister man who traps two young women in a deadly dungeon.Reflecting on his role in Nosferatu, Hoult said: “There’s not really too many laughs in Nosferatu, I would say.

It’s Gothic Horror and Robert Eggers is such a master of creating worlds and tension. For him, it was about honesty and authenticity, but also he would give us lots of movies to watch performance wise.

Lots of Soviet cinema, [Ingmar] Bergmann movies. He hates when actors move their eyebrows”.Grant replied: “Christ, I’ll never work with him then!