There is so much of vampire Count Orlok in “Nosferatu” that isn’t Bill Skarsgård: facial prosthetics, creepy undead makeup, eerily long fingers. The deep rumbling roar, though? All Skarsgård, all the time.
It needed to be him, the Swedish actor argues. So much so that when the idea of modulating Skarsgård’s voice down (for max creepiness) was brought up, he was “vehemently against” it and ready to go to battle if needed.
“I was like, ‘Please, please don’t. You can amplify it and you can make it echo-y and you can project it more.’ But I wanted that piece of the performance to be me,” says Skarsgård, 34.