“Nosferatu” star Nicholas Hoult was given a gift so bizarre that he shall not soon forget it.
In an Elle video released Monday, Hoult said the horror film’s director, Robert Eggers, mailed him a prosthetic penis that fellow actor Bill Skarsgård used in his portrayal of the iconic vampire Count Orlok.
“I have Count Orlok’s prosthetic penis framed at home,” Hoult told co-star Lily-Rose Depp. “There’s a scene where Bill Skarsgård is slurping my blood, and Robert Eggers asked afterwards, ‘How was that for you?’… And I said, ‘I could feel his prosthetic penis on my leg.’”
The accessory was apparently worn by Skarsgård as part off his transformation into the tall, bald vampire known for his clawlike fingers, pale skin and pointed ears.
Hoult explained that Eggers “got it [the prosthetic] framed and he sent it to my house.”
But it didn’t end there. Since the gift was damaged when it arrived, the “X-Men” star said he took it to get repaired.
“The frame had broken when it got [to my house], so I had to take it to the local frame shop and I had to be like, ‘Hey, dude, can you fix this?’” Hoult recalled.
The prop hilariously raised some eyebrows with the man working there, Hoult said.
“He kind of didn’t even blink the first time, and then when I went back to pick it up, I think he had clocked how weird it was, what I was framing, potentially, like, this vampire penis,” he shared.
“He was like, ‘Is this some kind of collector’s piece?’” Hoult said. “I was like, ‘Yeah, you could say that.’”
Skarsgård recently told Deadline that his transformation into Count Orlok was “uncomfortable.”
“The prosthetics took forever,” he told the outlet in a story published earlier this month. “You were very hot and you were very itchy and sticky. And then for me to just being able to use that voice that we worked so hard on, there was a whole regimen every morning.”
“Nosferatu,” a remake of the 1922 horror classic of the same name, also stars Willem Dafoe and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The film is set to hit theaters Wednesday.
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Check out Elle video with Hoult here.