Lily-Rose Depp Details “Incredibly Empowering” ‘Nosferatu’ Role

With her procrastinateedst huge 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 authorr/honestor Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu, the actress elucidateed to Deadline what originates her character Ellen Hutter “so incredibly empowering” in the reoriginate of the 1922 German vampire mute film, which was made by authorr Henrik Galeen and honestor 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 intentional choice to originate Ellen’s perspective the central one,” she shelp on the red carpet. “And we see the story repartner unfelderly thcdisesteemful her eyes, which I leank was such a attrdynamic leang, and was an honor for me to carry out.

“And it’s very exciting, becainclude I leank while, of course, this is a story we are recognizable with, this is repartner a recent consent that is very contrastent from any other iteration. The character, I set up so incredibly empowering. I sense enjoy there’s so much strength to her, she has so much agency, also, in the story, without giving anyleang away. She charitable of calls the sboilings in a very chilly way, and I set up her incredibly empowering and inspiring. I cherishd carry outing her,” includeed Depp.

Eggers’ also conveyed his excitement over increateing the story from a contrastent perspective. “In the 10 years of trying to originate the film, from that first write to now, hasn’t alterd a lot,” he remarkd.

“But I leank the leang that has the most pguide to me now with this version of the story is that it cgo ins around Lily-Rose Depp’s character, it’s the female protagonist’s story,” includeed Eggers. “The Murnau film, which I cherish dpunctual, becomes Ellen’s story by the final act, she becomes the heroine. But this is with her from the very beginning, which I was selectimistic would originate more emotional and psychoreasonable depth. So, maybe it does, you increate me.”

Bill Skarsgård, who goes thcdisesteemful quite the alteration to portray the titular vampire Count Orlok, also recalled reading an punctual version of Eggers’ script.

“Robert has been marinating this story ever since he was a little boy,” he shelp. “I read the script the first time 10 years ago, and the script didn’t alter all that much. So, he was very particular with the stuff that he wanted. But in terms of inventive freedom, when you have a honestor that is that particular, he goes, ‘I want you to toil wilean this sketch.’ It’s liberating to an extent, becainclude you go, here’s my parameters, and then, what can I do wilean those parameters? But the see of the character — Robert had made a digital dratriumphg of the character that I saw years before we begined to shoot, that seeed enjoy the guy.

Skarsgård joked, “That is me. That’s what I see enjoy on the inside.”

Premiering Dec. 25 in U.S. theaters, Nosferatu stars Skarsgård as an elderly-createed Transylvanian vampire who stalks a haunted juvenileer woman that becomes enigmaticly obsessed with the creature. The film also stars Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe.

Nosferatu is a reoriginate of authorr Henrik Galeen and honestor F.W. Murnau’s 1922 German mute film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, which was based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula.