“Nosferatu” de Robert Eggers (2024) - second remake du film muet “Nosferatu le Vampire” de Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1922) après “Nosferatu, Fantôme de la Nuit" de Werner Herzog (1979), tous inspirés des personnages du "Dracula” de Bram Stoker (1897) - avec Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney et Bill Skarsgård, janvier 2025.
Because I'm a normal person with normal amount of appreciation for Renfield and Hoult, I went through this thread and pulled out all the replies that had to do with Hoult. Enjoy.
Reddit thread
Putting it under "Keep reading" because long post is long.
Hoult: I watched all of them but Dwight Frye is obviously such an iconic wonderful performance and one that I did try to take a lot of inspiration from.
Hoult: They’re all difficult for different reasons. I don’t have as great an answer as that… but playing Beast was quite challenging simply because of the makeup. [To Cage] Which reminds me, I really felt for you in this. You took it in stride.
Hoult: Something that I love is when you’re on a set and you open a drawer and someone has taken the time to write a letter. It may never end up on screen, but it’s so incredible that they took the extra step to make each aspect of the film feel more real and to make that moment special.
Hoult: We were all (the cast) growing up together. So, whilst we were pretending to do all those things on the show and be those characters, outside of it, we were becoming great friends and experiencing all those things in real life. We were 16 and 17, so to share that time with those people and still be friends with them now is very special. I feel lucky to be a part of it.
Hoult: Hmmm. I liked the first John Wick. Speed as well.
Cage: I’m just going to go on record now, Nick is a hell of a dancer, and he worked his ass off to do this incredible dance sequence which didn’t make it into the movie, but it was brilliant. That was a lot of work.
Hoult: That was, yeah, that was a lot of work and rehearsals. Choreography came up with this wonderful fantasy sequence of Renfield dancing with bugs, just over the moon with love. But yeah, sadly it didn’t make it into the film but maybe it will end up as a deleted scene?
Cage: No reason in terms of method, but the fangs were genuine fangs, they were ceramic and quite pointy. So I did bite my lip a few times which made me drink my own blood.
Hoult: I quite like the taste of my own blood.
Cage: There is something warm and fuzzy about it.
Hoult: We were inside a church at one point, during a hurricane. It wasn’t paranormal, but it was eerie. We had to stop filming and all gather together towards the center of this church and wait out this hurricane.
Cage: One of the recent ones, THE MENU, I just thought it was so delicious. That movie is about cooking so that is the right word. It was one of my favorite movies of the year. Darkest comedy in the most delicious way.
Hoult: Face Off, Con Air, Pig, Adaptation, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
Hoult: There’s a line that she added (in a scene in the apartment and I was making her cookies) and she said “I don’t want your murder cookies." That was a very funny line that she made up. That gets me every time.
Hoult: I like the idea of Frankenstein's monster, but Dracula would be up there as one of my favorites as well.
Hoult: I mean he’s horrendous on some levels, but he’s also quite caring and nurturing on others. So it’s always a matter of perspective, isn’t it? If you saw a vignette of the nicest moments of their lives together it would seem picturesque and wonderful. And then at its worst it probably is horrific and as bad as it can get. So it’s both things at the same time.
Cage: I’m fairly certain that Dracula and Renfield had a few wonderful laughs together over the years. Big laughs? That’s probably the better word to use.
Hoult: Thank you so much. In some ways, tonally, these are similar films and I love making those horror comedy/twisted genres. If you like those, hopefully you’ll like Renfield.
Hoult: I learned today that Nick edited Shadow of The Vampire, which I didn’t know and I was surprised by it.
Cage: I don’t think anything surprises me about Nick Hoult. He’s making all the right moves and I knew he would.
Hoult: For me? Hot and sour soup.
Cage & Hoult: Both did all the time.
Hoult: Oh I wouldn’t want to say a least favorite. I like them all.
Cage: Thank you. You're great too.
Hoult: To quote a great actor, '"Thank you. You're great too" -- Cage'
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Thanks for the questions! We gotta go see the children of the night about a bite to eat - but make sure to watch RENFIELD, only in theaters on April 14th.
Warnings: Language, talk of death, not being able to grieve, me not being able to believe I wrote 6/7 fics today and showing that it’s 11:40 PM
TBH, this is actually based off of a dream I had
And it’s weird to think that I wrote so many fics today
Also, I’m mad at Hank for saying Raven is pretty as her natural blue self in First Class, like sir, she is fucking gorgeous you insecure dick
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Y/N silently listened as Hank talked, slowly growing more irritated. He acted as if he was the only one who lost someone. That they all didn’t loose Jean and Raven. And perhaps it was the lack of sleep they had been getting due to the increase of nightmares or the fact that they were actually done with his bullshit that they cut him off. “Listen here you dick, you weren’t the only fucking person who lost someone! We all lost someone! So I’m fucking sorry that you feel like you need to let everyone know that you lost your one true love! But guess what, you aren’t the only person in the world! I lost the two people who were like my sisters! Scott lost his girlfriend for fucks sake! And Charles, yes, I am bringing him into this and I’m about to bring Erik into too! Charles lost the girl he brought up as a sister and saved from living on the streets! Erik lost one of the only people who always had his back! And Kurt, he lost his fucking mother! So if anyone has the right to act like you are, it’s him!”
“Y/N--”
They turned to Scott, “No Scott, I’m not gonna sit here and let him act like we all didn’t loose Jean and Raven! I’m not gonna sit here and allow him to act like he’s the only person in this room to have lost someone!”
They turned back to Hank, “My brother and the two girls I saw as sisters all died in front of me! We never even found my brothers body even! And I know, “Everyone grieves differently” but if your grieving is bringing others down and not letting them grieve, then take it somewhere that you won’t do that! Because I believe that I can say for all of us that we’re tired of not being able to grieve our own way because you won’t let us.”
“I never acted like you guys didn’t loose someone.”
Y/N raised their eyebrows and let out a an amused laugh, “You didn’t? Okay, then who told me that I don’t understand what is like to watch someone you care about die in front of you? Who said that? Oh right, it was you! Who told Scott that he didn’t just loose his only love? Oh yeah, you! So don’t sit there and act all innocent because you aren’t! So I’m sorry to say this, but I’m done. I’m done with all of this. I’m leaving for good.” They turned around and walked out of the room, never wanting to face Hank McCoy ever again.
