According to Skarsgård, there are plans to follow up on Jonas Åkerlund's absurd story about the serial offender Olofsson, which premiered on Netflix in 2022.
It's being discussed, a continuation. I love that character and I love working with Jonas Åkerlund, says Skarsgård to TT:
But on this particular day, 34-year-old Bill Skarsgård is mostly talking about horror, a genre he's really not unfamiliar with. After roles in, among others, Stephen King film adaptations "It" and "Castle Rock", he has in his new film "Nosferatu" taken on one of the horror world's most iconic characters: Count Dracula.
Vampire Count Orlok
However, in this Robert Eggers-directed film, the vampire count is called Orlok – due to copyright issues and the classic film that the German director GW Murnau made in 1922, and which this film is both a remake of and a tribute to.
Why has it become so much horror for Skarsgård? He doesn't really know himself.
I assume that I attract a certain type of character and it also works the other way around. I've never had the ambition to become a horror actor, but I've always had the ambition to do transformative characters, says Bill Skarsgård and emphasizes that his choices always depend on the project itself.
I'm completely saturated with horror right now, but if a project comes along that offers something new, I'm interested.
Grotesque – not sexy
His vampire count looks very grotesque, far from "sexy" vampires like Christopher Lee and Brad Pitt. It's easy to imagine that his co-star Lily Rose Depp could feel some resistance towards certain scenes.
We had many intimate scenes together and talked a lot about it. I think she's outstanding in this role. She thought I looked really creepy and unpleasant, which she could use. Then she knew it was me underneath – that helped.
When the vampire sucks blood, it's a form of rape. Here, we're as far from "Twilight" and "Interview with a Vampire" as possible. We're going back to the roots. We're giving the vampire a renaissance.
He became acquainted with the 1922 "Nosferatu" already as a child.
It was dad Stellan who introduced me to it. We watched films together and had a silent film period. We saw Chaplin, we saw "Nosferatu". I thought it was creepy and unpleasant, but dad also described how it had changed film history. There's something mystical about that film.
Age: 34 years.
Family: wife Alida, two children.
Lives: In Stockholm.
Occupation: Actor.
Previous roles in selection: "Arn", "In space, there are no feelings", "The sky is innocently blue", "Simon and the Oaks", "It", "Villains", "It: chapter two", "Castle Rock", "The devil all the time", "Eternals", "Clark", "Barbarians", "Burn all my letters", "John Wick: chapter 4", "Boy kills world", "The crow".
Currently: In "Nosferatu", which has its Swedish cinema premiere on 3/1.
