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A lot of work went into crafting Count Orlok’s voice and breathing, mostly from Bill Skarsgård. Eggers was very specific about it, and, in one interview, he said he wanted “intimations of, like, broken lungs”. In both scripts, Orlok’s voice is described as “impossibly deep sepulchral voice, shrouded in the exotic accent of his mother tongue. In spite of its power, it seems every word he utters causes him great pain and effort to expel.” And his breathing is described as “loud and asthmatic - pained, like his speech”.

This Orlok is a folk vampire; meaning, as Production designer Craig Lathrop elaborated, he’s a reanimated corpse. Which means he died, and was then resurrected due to the Faustian bargain he made. According to Bill, Orlok sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge, and given the context of the story there’s only knowledge he could have bargained for: Necromancy, to ressurect the dead. The ultimate betrayal of his Solomonar beliefs, since the Solomonari are connected to Zalmoxis and Dacian religion here.