If there’s one one that has quite a bit to have fun this yr, it’s Nicholas Hoult. The actor has had one in every of his largest years but, starring in three main movies with launch dates in November and December: Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu, Justin Kurzel’s The Order, and Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2.
“It kind of makes sense in some ways that they were all coming out at one time, because it feels like a chapter of life that’s all combined in a bit of a blur,” Hoult, who filmed all three consecutively in 2023, tells Little Gold Men.
But the roles additionally couldn’t be extra totally different. After breaking out at 11 years outdated in About a Boy, Hoult has confirmed himself an agile actor who can lead charming, humorous interval items just like the Hulu present The Great and the movie The Favourite; genre-bending films just like the zombie rom-com Warm Bodies and the vampire comedy Renfield; and superhero fare just like the X-Men movies, together with extra dramatic initiatives like these three movies this yr.
In Nosferatu, which is hitting theaters on Christmas Day, Hoult performs a person and newlywed whose spouse (Lily-Rose Depp) has a darkish connection to a monster that’s infatuated together with her. Hoult makes an attempt to assist his new household by attempting to promote an property to a mysterious determine, solely to be pulled right into a darkish and terrifying scenario. In The Order, which got here out on December 6, Hoult portrays the real-life white supremacist group chief Bob Mathews, who’s being hunted by the FBI. And lastly, in Juror #2, he performs a recovering alcoholic who finds himself on a jury and shortly realizes that he may even have been the one who triggered the loss of life on the heart of the trial.
Hoult, who will subsequent play Lex Luthor in James Gunn’s Superman, spoke to Little Gold Men (pay attention under) concerning the stark variations between these movies’ three administrators, what he loves most about horror, and if he’d let his personal youngsters comply with in his footsteps as baby actors.
Vanity Fair: Did you’ve time between filming these three initiatives?
Nicholas Hoult: No, they had been very shut collectively.We shot Nosferatu in Prague firstly of final yr, after which I flew on, like, a Saturday again dwelling, after which on Monday I needed to fly to Calgary, and we began taking pictures The Order on the Wednesday. I had a day of rehearsal and stuff and prep and fittings, after which I began taking pictures just about instantly. Then completed that, and I got here again to LA for a display take a look at for Superman that weekend after which flew to Savannah. On the Monday, prepped and rehearsed and did fittings, after which we began taking pictures Juror #2 on the Wednesday.
Is it exhausting so that you can bounce from one character to the following?
The largest bounce was working with the three totally different administrators as a result of they fluctuate a lot of their method. And clearly the characters are so totally different, so it was type of this factor the place it might overlap a little bit bit: At the tip of taking pictures Nosferatu, I’d be prepping The Order and beginning to examine that and put together mentally for that character. I’d be in my trailer at lunch on Nosferatu, however I’d be engaged on the accent for Bob Mathews and sending Justin Kurzel voice notes of him speaking.