Doug Jones

I think I probably stand a little straighter than Max Schreck did, but they still did have some extra built into that hump area of the back.

I think I probably stand a little straighter than Max Schreck did, but they still did have some extra built into that hump area of the back.

With this long double-breasted coat. That was gorgeous. And the prosthetics, though, I wore more prosthetics than the other Nosferatus have. Really? Max Shrek was very smooth. It was basically his face with a bald cap and some ears and some funny swaths of hair placed just so. I was more wrinkled and elderly-looking, which was a design choice. And here's the fun backstory of that look.

With this long double-breasted coat. That was gorgeous. And the prosthetics, though, I wore more prosthetics than the other Nosferatus have. Really? Max Shrek was very smooth. It was basically his face with a bald cap and some ears and some funny swaths of hair placed just so. I was more wrinkled and elderly-looking, which was a design choice. And here's the fun backstory of that look.

Mike Elizalde, a very talented artist who owns the creature shop Spectral Motion, that did the Hellboy movies with me and the Silver Surfer movie with me. And he, as a garage project at home, started sculpting a Nosferatu decades ago on a life cast of me, my bust.

Mike Elizalde, a very talented artist who owns the creature shop Spectral Motion, that did the Hellboy movies with me and the Silver Surfer movie with me. And he, as a garage project at home, started sculpting a Nosferatu decades ago on a life cast of me, my bust.

He added clay to me and started sculpting what he thought Nosferatu might look like in his dreams. And he came up with that. Once it was done, they had prosthetic pieces made of it. And just as a test, fun makeup test one day, he called up and said, would you ever want to put this on just for a Saturday afternoon fun photo shoot? I said, yes. It's like manifesting.

He added clay to me and started sculpting what he thought Nosferatu might look like in his dreams. And he came up with that. Once it was done, they had prosthetic pieces made of it. And just as a test, fun makeup test one day, he called up and said, would you ever want to put this on just for a Saturday afternoon fun photo shoot? I said, yes. It's like manifesting.

Right. So we went and did that. And this is, again, a good 10 years before this movie came up.

Right. So we went and did that. And this is, again, a good 10 years before this movie came up.

Yeah. So when David Lee Fisher, who I'd worked with before on a movie much like this, we did a reimagining, a remix of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, that 1919 silent film that we made into the same thing, old movie, new movie, put together with dialogue, sound, musical score. So David Lee Fisher calls me up one day and says, hey, if you don't want to do this, I won't do it, but I have this idea.

Yeah. So when David Lee Fisher, who I'd worked with before on a movie much like this, we did a reimagining, a remix of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, that 1919 silent film that we made into the same thing, old movie, new movie, put together with dialogue, sound, musical score. So David Lee Fisher calls me up one day and says, hey, if you don't want to do this, I won't do it, but I have this idea.

Would you want to ever do Nosferatu like we did Caligari? And I was like... You have been reading my dreams.

Would you want to ever do Nosferatu like we did Caligari? And I was like... You have been reading my dreams.

Right? And I said in that same phone call, oh, my gosh, I know exactly what makeup I want to wear doing this, too. Wow. So we went back to Mike Elizalde, and his design is what Moe Meinhardt and Ben Plowman did.

Right? And I said in that same phone call, oh, my gosh, I know exactly what makeup I want to wear doing this, too. Wow. So we went back to Mike Elizalde, and his design is what Moe Meinhardt and Ben Plowman did.

put on me on the day it took about four hours a day and those four hours also included appliances on the back of my hands to make them more bony and veiny right and also to add those those long delicious talons fingernails yes the acrylics right right talk about lee press on nails those are yeah

put on me on the day it took about four hours a day and those four hours also included appliances on the back of my hands to make them more bony and veiny right and also to add those those long delicious talons fingernails yes the acrylics right right talk about lee press on nails those are yeah

Isn't that wackadoodle? I know. I love it. Just love it.

Isn't that wackadoodle? I know. I love it. Just love it.