Emma Corrin and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Make Horror Magic in Nosferatu

“My poisonous trait is that I’ve to gather all of the world’s [Wales] Bonner,” Emma Corrin gives as they flop into an ornate mahogany chair with a household crest on the again. The Nosferatu star is, after all, speaking about Grace Wales Bonner—the It-girl designer from London finest recognized for her impressed athleisure collections with Adidas, together with these leopard-print Sambas final noticed on comedy queen Ayo Edebiri.

Corrin isn’t any stranger to trend. As we communicate, they’ve simply helped Miu Miu usher within the festive season by fronting its Christmas marketing campaign. As we speak, they’ve simply wrapped up their Who What Put on shoot and have become their very own Wales Bonner sweatshirt and blue R13 denims. Their chestnut hair is lower in a pixie lower—although, additionally they look badly in want of a woolly hat given how they’re shivering. In spite of everything, we’re within the lovely, if freezing, anteroom of a former Tudor monastery nestled in a quiet courtyard only a few minutes away from the bustling streets of central London. Fourteenth-century English monks, it appears, weren’t followers of central heating.

As Corrin politely requests a sizzling water bottle from somebody on manufacturing, their Nosferatu co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson sweeps in, trying considerably hotter than each of us in a black Our Legacy coat and a grey hoodie. “I’ve gone for the coziest pair of 501s,” he says, pointing to his Levi’s as he settles into the chair subsequent to Corrin. Did I point out that this former monastery now features as a banquet corridor for fancy dinners? There is a thunderous metallic screech as somebody wheels in a large industrial fridge and dramatically leaves it in the midst of the room. “That is Aaron’s fridge,” Corrin dryly remarks. “Very Nosferatu,” Taylor-Johnson says. “They’ll carry a physique out.”

The glacial temperature, the human-sized fridge, the truth that the constructing we’re in sits on a black loss of life burial floor (severely, I seemed it up)—you could not ask for a greater location to speak to the celebrities of horror auteur Robert Eggers’s reimagining of the 1922 traditional. The black-and-white authentic swaps the Dracula of Bram Stoker’s novel with the terrifying Depend Orlok, who is delivered to life in Eggers’s take by an unrecognizable, prosthetics-laden Invoice Skarsgård. The Swedish actor did not look half as scary in actual life, in line with his co-stars. “Typically, he simply had the pinnacle and arms on with grey sweats,” Corrin laughs.

The 2 actors play Anna and Friedrich Harding, a deeply wise and madly-in-love couple who’re dragged right into a residing nightmare when Anna’s finest good friend Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) begins to have ominous visions of a sharp-toothed suitor knocking on her door. The result’s a dread-soaked, psychosexual illusion of a movie, the sort that can terrify and thrill in equal measure. One movie critic famous that it has “extra writhing sweatily in mattress than every other film ever made.”

Each stars confess that they don’t seem to be precise horror followers, however they definitely seemed the half on the set of right now’s spookily gothic Who What Put on shoot. Earlier, I caught a glimpse of the 2 in all black trying like impossibly stylish extras from an Addams Household reboot simply earlier than they have been ushered by an ornate doorway that would not look misplaced in Depend Orlok’s fortress. Though it is solely 4 within the afternoon, it is already pitch-black outdoors, and even the upbeat William DeVaughn soul monitor on the audio system cannot take away from the chilliness indoors.

“Are you good with horror?” Corrin inquires. I am a fan of a fright fest, I admit. “We’re each not,” they reply. Taylor-Johnson nods in affirmation: “I’m not a horror-genre moviegoer.” Okay, however what about vampire movies? He is received two daughters and two stepdaughters. Certainly, he is seen Twilight.