Nicholas Hoult Reveals the NSFW Nickname Clint Eastwood Gave Him

It seems Clint Eastwood actually loved Nicholas Hoult‘s efficiency in The Great.

When Hoult, 35, appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers‘ Thursday, Dec. 19 episode to advertise his film Nosferatu, the actor instructed host Seth Meyers that Eastwood, 94, granted him a humorous NSFW nickname on the set of Juror #2 in reference to Hoult’s satirical Hulu collection.

“Oh, it was magic,” Hoult stated of working with the legendary Eastwood on Juror #2, Eastwood’s newest film as a director. “I imply, he’s cinema in some ways. The performances he is given, the flicks he is directed and made. It was a visit. He’s a like a jazz musician of a director; he is very musical in life as an individual, however the best way he creates, there’s type of this circulate and relaxed nature to it.”

The actor additionally famous that Eastwood holds “a depraved humorousness.” “I realized this as a result of his nickname he gave me was Captain Lingus,” he instructed Meyers, 50. “Cunnilingus.”

“Because he had seen a present I did referred to as The Great and my character in that’s meant to be superb — he calls it his ‘tongue trick,'” Hoult added. “And Clint actually favored the present, so once I would stroll on to set he would salute me within the mornings and say, ‘Cap’n Lingus.’ And that reminiscence will without end dwell with me, and I’d such as you all to seek advice from me as that any more.”

Hoult costarred in The Great with Elle Fanning. The collection served as a satirical, loosely based mostly retelling of the younger lifetime of 18th century Russian empress Catherine the Great. Hoult portrayed Catherine’s husband, Emperor Peter III, all through its three seasons.

“I simply love that in that story, Clint Eastwood has a Hulu login,” Meyers joked throughout his dialog with Hoult. “It’s simply actually humorous to consider him being like ‘ah, I gotta get on Hulu.’ “

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Hoult praised Eastwood’s versatility as a filmmaker when he spoke with PEOPLE in November, noting that the Hollywood legend and jazz musician has “carried out the rating for a lot of of his motion pictures, so his motion pictures have their very own rhythm and tempo to them due to his musicality.”

“He’s simply an extremely gifted and sort man,” Hoult stated of Eastwood at the moment. “I felt very lucky to spend time with him and work with him. He’s very humorous. He’s acquired a pointy wit, a dry humorousness, and in order that was additionally nice as a result of we’d snigger so much.”

Juror #2 is streaming on Max now.