Bill Skarsgård’s vampire attire in Nosferatu was inspired by The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger.
Skarsgard’s titular character is dressed in a coat which is more of a cape, and trousers inspired by Mick Jagger. Ina new interview, the film’s costume designer Linda Muir revealed everything about the actor’s transformation into Orlok.
Speaking to IndieWire, she said his coat is “more of a cape, like Dracula”.
She continued: “And then he has underneath a beautiful dolman, which is like a tunic…And that is layered and layered and layered. It has patterned silk, and I tried to choose textiles that have a lot of gold threads because I knew [cinematographer] Jarin [Blaschke] would be using firelight and candlelight and this beautiful moonlight. So things that could twinkle and reflect back to us to give the shape of an outline.”
“And then he has kind of Mick Jagger trousers,” she added, “which are mustard-coloured, kind of shiny gold thread, skin-tight trousers and a beautiful sash at his waist. And then he has the coolest footwear. He has leather. They’re like mules, so a slip-on. But for safety and comfort, they gave Bill another 4 inches or so in what is already a really beautiful, thin, tall outline.”
She revealed that the Hemlock Grove star had to wear a harness next to his body because of the heat the layers of clothing and the prosthetics would generate. “So we tried to make it so that we could release him as quickly as possible,” Muir continued.
She added: “We cooled him off between takes, in between setups, and not tire him out from walking around with this. It also had to look effortless, like he wouldn’t fall off, like it’s mesmerised onto his shoulders, and magical, too.”
Bill Skarsgård is joined in Nosferatu by Lily Rose-Depp, Emma Corin, Willem Dafoe and more.
