Nicholas Hoult Almost Got Attacked by Wolves While Filming ‘Nosferatu’ [Video]

Real life and make-believe merged in Nicholas Hoult‘s daring on-screen escape.

The actor appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Dec. 23, where he recounted a scary moment that took place while filming Nosferatu. Hoult will star alongside Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe and Emma Corrin in the horror drama set to release on Christmas Day.

Meyers noted that Hoult is “terrified in a great amount of this film.”

Hoult said every time he had been truly terrified in his own life, the feeling only manifested internally. So, conveying dread and fear outwardly for this film was a new experience for him.

One time he felt “real fear” on the Nosferatu set, though, was when he was being chased by wolves. Hoult’s character, Thomas Hutter, flees out a window in an attempt to escape the wolves chasing after him.

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