Conan Can’t Wait To See Nosferatu (Feat. Nicholas Hoult) | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

how do you like living in Los Angeles. area do you do you because I've me we. were talking about this a little bit. when you first showed up but it's so. interesting I maybe it's the Grass Is. Always Greener but having 100% Irish. jeans I always find myself yearning for. it to be cloudy yeah and rainy here in. Los Angeles but for years I've noticed. that people from the UK Brits they they. could want to be here they are not. interested at all in a day they want to.

get red in it faced uh I don't know you. know do they I think so yeah they love. they love tanning they love is that do. you think I'm I'm on to something I. think you're on to well you know what I. the reverse that would be my wife was. like when we when we first met she was. like oh I love she's from here she was. like oh I love rain I love cloudy days. whatever I was like cool and we were. back in London for a while shooting some. of the great for six months and I think. it was rainy and cloudy and cold for. most of that time and she quickly. realized that she didn't didn't like it.

enjoy that there's something about if. you grow up in the sun where you kind of. have this romantic idea of rain and gray. and cold and all this but actually when. you put her in it she was like no this. isn't and you're happy you you like it. here I like being in the sun I mean I. miss I miss London I miss pubs and the. theater and friends and and a lot of the. things about the lifestyle and been able. to walk more places so I do miss it but. I mean the thing about my job is I'm. always kind of on the road in different. places so but I'm finding this a nice. base at the moment where did you shoot. this where did you shoot nose for out to. sh it in Prague oh my God see that that.

is why I do a travel show is that for. years and years and years for 28 years I. sat at a talk show desk and talk to. people like you yeah who said oh I just. got back from Prague yeah have you been. there for no I've never been to Prague I. I I want to go there but you should do. an episode going there yeah I will in in. like alignment with NOS veratu coming. out yeah oh oh so you want me to travel. to get the word out on nosu thank you.

all right Sona could you book me a. flight to prag and get me. a good really good books really good. acting all done and could you have a. shirt made that says uh no Fatu in. theaters now yeah let's see that can you. screen. print. wow wa laser. printer do all your Mach make noises. like that yeah hey I'm your Guillotine. probably goes.

my like to hear the guillotine yeah. let's hear the. guillotine splort spor it needs to be a. little. bit yeah sort of a wet he landed on his. tongue um I don't know what happened. there Joy gu is didn't realize the. French Revolution was so humorous yes. Benny Hill in the French Revolution.

[Laughter]. okay you made no Fatu directed by one of. my favorites Robert Edgars I love his. stuff he's incredible isn't he. absolutely incredible and so I I mean. I'm in I'm excited to just see the look. of the film I mean he always he always. achieves I mean I'm I agree with you I'm. such a huge fan of his I love his movies. I love the performances in his movies um. he is I I think a real a filmmaker and. and one of the greatest working in and.

our lives he's he's just and it's you. know what I was thinking about this the. other day as well he's so dedicated to. the craft of film making in terms of. technically emotionally historically. what he creates there were moments where. he was like watching old films to try. and figure out what was the best snow we. could use cuz we shot all on all on film. he's he's like you said the look is so. important in terms of telling the story. but he so he was he was like why is the. why is the snow good in these movies but. it's not good in these and then he found. like some old stock snow that isn't made.

anymore fake snow from the90s whatever. they managed to locate that's asbest. just enough and I'm breathing this. asbestos in and I'm like God this movie. is beautiful and it's worth it there's a. reason they don't use it anymore. poisoning myself God it looks good on on. screen he he is he is like. yeah it's just his dedication to like. the the details of historically but also. like exploring the ult and the emotional. aspects of this story it's something. he's wanted to make since he was 8 years. old and there was a play of it he did at. school so um no one could have told it.

better what are the Edgar movies that. you were really drawn to I mean the. witch was the first one I saw and I met. him after that which I just thought all. his movies feel so real which is kind of. a weird thing because I'm not. necessarily like a a horror fan well. this is it's so funny because I had the. opportunity to uh interview Jordan peo. and he was asking me what kind of horror. films do you like and I said I don't. like jump someone jumping out of a bush. stabbing jump scares and.

someone chasing someone else with a with. a chainsaw and I cited uh the witch as. an example and Edgar as an example of. there's a wide. shot uh early in the film it's fall and. it's New England yeah six 17th century. New England and you and the wind is. blowing and you just see these trees. slightly undulating and it's terrifying. yeah because of the implication. of what something malevolent is out.

there yeah he managed to make trees in. the fall in New England very frightening. and I responded to there's so much in. the witch that it's it's so much of its. tone and so much of it is and then there. are yes there are little moments that. are frightening but when you think about. it there's so little violence there's so. little action but your heart's in your. mouth the whole time yeah oh he's a. master of creating tension I think. you're going to love that I think I'm.

excited for you to see it because it's. like the the tension he creates but it. is visually stunning and the score and. the sound is like imposing and fills. your bones but then there's this weird. thing where it's like you're watching it. you're like you can't take your eyes. away because it's it's like looking at a. rembrand every scene every shot but then. but then there's also this thing where. you like don't want to look away because. you're also this is scary something's. coming something's happening and it's. it's a it's a really interesting. exploration of kind of the evil that we. all have within ourselves but also. externally coming how that affects us so.

I'm I'm excited by it I think it's a. really good M the period is is it 18. yeah9 bitburg Germany um so it's kind of. a Gothic yeah tale I guess um but then. yeah going back to his movies of course. the lighthouse who's like and William. defo in this one as well him and Rob was. so brilliant we got to do uh we did a. travel show in Dublin last year yeah and. we drove around and we went to Wicklow. which there's this great iconic. Lighthouse and I got all made up as. William defo in the lighthouse and I.

have this long insane speech yeah uh. that we shot in black and white you're. doing promo for the lighthouse I you can. do something that's for you better make. another shirt yeah what I'm saying is go. check out the lighthouse get the costume. on as well but what I love the script. what I loved about that I guess what I. loved about that movie is he puts you I. mean you. are you're the performances are amazing. but also you're paying attention to like. the button on someone's weird suit which.

is very somehow evocative yeah he. manages to get all that stuff right and. I'm thinking Gothic NOS Fatu late 19th. century field day with the visuals oh. the costumes Linda the costumes that she. created are are all impeccable and and. stunning but it is all that detail again. it's. like his historical knowledge of. everything going on he he and because he. leads from the front with such passion. everyone around just really wants to. bring their best and do their best um to.

serve his vision but then I would text. him thinking he'd be asleep about. something in in like the middle of the. night in the middle of the day here but. which middle of the night in London and. he'd be like Oh I'm up I'm researching. which cigars you your character should. smoke in this scene and whatever he'. like dude go to bed it's 3:00 or 400. a.m. in London what are you doing but. he's just constantly so so in the zone. of what's what's right for the story in. every smoking thousands of cigars he's. vomiting yeah I've got to get the right. one.

uh well listen I am a huge fan of yours. as a person uh but uh I I just think. your performances are off the charts. great and I'm I love Robert Edgar so I. will be first in line Christmas morning. well seriously I my family and. I I will be there um this this movie is. made for me so so uh and oh yeah Bill.

Skarsgard yeah oh his performance is. Magic as well because he's created you. know this monster account allock but. he's given it such history and rooted it. in something very real so it's you know. it's terrifying it's scary but it's also. it's also real do you I'm I'm curious. because my work is always I make. something and then we see it either. instantly or 10 minutes later and then I. never see it again your work is you work. really hard on something craft it you. make it you have some control over some.

facets of it but and then this long. period of time goes by I would think. before you see it how apprehensive are. you about okay now it's time for me to. go see myself in NOS Fatu I don't like. that I don't like that I always equate. it to like when you at school and you. did a test and you're waiting for the. results to come in yeah there's that. nerve-wracking feeling where you're. like um it's odd I'm trying to get. better at that because there's a and it. depends also how you. left the.

the shoot in terms of how you your. overall feeling there like did you feel. like you gave a lot of variation on each. scene that in the edit if they want. they're going to have options did you. feel like you explored everything you. could have done and and and then that's. a different feeling as opposed to if you. walk away from something you go I think. I missed a bit here or actually that. could have been better and suddenly then. you're looking back and you're like oh. no so it's it's it's an odd feeling. waiting for something to come out and. not something I look forward to. particularly I'll say from my vantage. point uh your work is excellent and so.

and trust me I think a word from con. O'Brien carries a lot of weight in the. film industry yeah huh the car. yeah red onesie the car gave. thumbs up five five stars from The. Tourist um absolutely uh thrilled. that you could be here today and um I do. want to be your. friend I doubt I doubt it's going to. happen um you can definitely be friends.

no I have a bad you gave me the the. sheet you made say it I don't think I'm. going to say it's not going to happen on. your end I'm going to say you're the one. that's going to see just keep calling. and breathing down the. phone I'm always waiting Nicholas it's. the only reason I've still got a. landline it's me. um but congrats on the new film NOS Fatu. and uh thank you so much for stopping by. and for being so funny uh and terrific.

thanks for appreciate it.