Talking to Digital Spy, Hoult – who plays Thomas Hutter – recalled a terrifying experience filming a scene with Czech shepherd dogs who had the job of running after a scared Thomas in Count Orlok's castle.

Welcome to Career Watch, a vocational checkup of top actors and directors, and those who hope to get there. In this edition we take on Nicholas Hoult, who’s doing what he’s always done: owning character roles in film, theater and television.

Nicholas Hoult has revealed how he has a very unusual gift from his new movie 'Nosferatu' director Robert Eggers, which he has decided to have framed in his home

It wasn’t enough for Count Orlok’s prosthetic penis to be in its natural form. The special prop piece had an actual frame, which the actor says later broke. This meant he legitimately had to take the Nosferatu prop to again be framed in all of its glory and this is when the additional hilarity ensued:

Nicholas Hoult has the 'Nosferatu' prosthetic penis from the set after writer/director Robert Eggers gave it to him.

Hoult and Depp play husband and wife Thomas and Ellen Hutter in the horror flick, while Skarsgård, 34, plays the titular monster. The cast also includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe. In a recent interview with Deadline, Eggers revealed that Skarsgård was terrified when he saw his prosthetics for the role.

After a strange experience on set, Hoult now has a bizarre gift from director Robert Eggers that he keeps on display.

In this scene from “Nosferatu,” a city man finds himself very out of place as he arrives in a Transylvanian village. Nicholas Hoult plays Thomas Hutter, a real estate agent on the way to meet with Count Orlok.