'Nosferatu' | Anatomy of a scene

“Hello, I'm Robert Eggers, the writer and director of “Nosferatu.” Nicholas Hoult is on a trip to Orlok Castle and will stop at a Transylvanian village we built in the Czech Republic outside of Prague. We went to a lot of vernacular architecture museums in Romania, in Transylvania, to study what we would build, and this is based on all of that. It was a very difficult sequence to broadcast. We have gypsy non-actors and gypsy musicians and dancers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania. It was challenging to work with everyone speaking a different language, but also a lot of fun. These musicians are from Romania, so it was the woman who was applauding with the red scarf on. You may or may not have realized that this is all one time. This sequence was carefully choreographed and rehearsed beforehand in a warehouse in Prague. And then we had to bring everyone here and do it right. And I think we did about 30 takes of all of this. This guy, Radu, is a dancer who practices a kind of traditional Roman dance combined with hip hop. But here he's just doing the traditional thing. And this man with the Golden Tooth is Jordan Haj, a Czech pop star. Why are they laughing at him? Is it the hat or is it something else? But it's certainly meant to make you feel uncomfortable as an audience member, because he doesn't know why he's being laughed at.