Emma Corrin on acting with rats for ‘Nosferatu’: ’30 of them were on my bare chest’
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Emma Corrin got up close and personal with rats for the film Nosferatu.
The actor, who uses they/them pronouns, told Deadline they filmed a scene for the upcoming horror film where many rats swarmed them.
“30 of them were on my bare chest,” Corrin said. “Honestly, I was being very brave about it. I was very much stoic, being very British about it, really. And then we were in the scene, and I had no top on, and it was just horrible.”
Corrin went on to say how awful the smell of the rats was.
“The smell is something that you can’t imagine. And the incontinence was a thing that I really didn’t expect, but was terrible. … It was grim,” Corrin said. “They loved my hair, so they would go and sit in the wig and get all up in my face. Do you watch I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!? You know when they had to put their hand in the box with the tarantulas? It was a bit like that, I won’t lie.”
The film’s director, Robert Eggers, estimates that 5,000 live rats were used in the making of the movie.
“The big thing that makes it difficult is that we had to contain them for their safety with plexiglass that you don’t see on camera,” Eggers said. “But what was more challenging was for Emma Corrin, who has live rats placed on their body, and they’re incontinent or defecating and urinating on Emma take, after take, after take. That’s difficult.”
The 2025 Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday.
Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang announced the nominees in all 23 categories for the 97th Academy Awards at 5:30 a.m. PST / 8:30 a.m. EST from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles.
Conan O’Brien will host the 97th Academy Awards, airing live on ABC on Sunday, March 2, beginning at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.
Here is the complete list:
Best supporting actor Yura Borisov, Anora Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown Guy Pearce, The Brutalist Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Best costume design A Complete Unknown – Arianne Phillips Conclave – Lisy Christl Gladiator II – David Crossman and Janty Yates Nosferatu – Linda Muir Wicked – Paul Tazewell
Best original score The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg Conclave – Volker Bertelmann Emilia Pérez – Clément Ducol and Camille Wicked – John Powell and Stephen Schwartz The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers
Best makeup and hairstyling A Different Man Emilia Pérez Nosferatu The Substance Wicked
Best live action short film A Lien Anuja I’m Not a Robot The Last Ranger The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Best animated short film Beautiful Men In the Shadow of the Cypress Magic Candies Wander to Wonder Yuck!
Best adapted screenplay A Complete Unknown – Jay Cocks and James Mangold Conclave – Peter Straughan Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Nicolas Livecchi Nickel Boys – Joslyn Barnes and RaMell Ross Sing Sing – Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
Best supporting actress Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown Ariana Grande, Wicked Felicity Jones, The Brutalist Isabella Rossellini, Conclave Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Best original song “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez “The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight “Like A Bird” from Sing Sing “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez “Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late
Best documentary feature film Black Box Diaries No Other Land Porcelain War Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Sugarcane
Best documentary short film Death by Numbers I Am Ready, Warden Incident Instruments of a Beating Heart The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Best animated feature film Flow Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl The Wild Robot
Best film editing Anora – Sean Baker The Brutalist – Dávid Jancsó Conclave – Nick Emerson Emilia Pérez – Juliette Welfling Wicked – Myron Kerstein
Best production design The Brutalist Conclave Dune: Part Two Nosferatu Wicked
Best sound A Complete Unknown Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez Wicked The Wild Robot
Best visual effects Alien: Romulus Better Man Dune: Part Two Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Wicked
Best cinematography The Brutalist – Lol Crawley Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser Emilia Pérez – Paul Guilhaume Maria – Ed Lachman Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke
Best actor Adrien Brody, The Brutalist Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown Colman Domingo, Sing Sing Ralph Fiennes, Conclave Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best actress Cynthia Erivo, Wicked Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez Mikey Madison, Anora Demi Moore, The Substance Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Best director Sean Baker, Anora Brady Corbet, The Brutalist James Mangold, A Complete Unknown Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Best picture Anora The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Conclave Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez I’m Still Here Nickel Boys The Substance Wicked
The stars of the film, including Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, helped debut the highly anticipated trailer in epic fashion, live from the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in front of a Saturn V rocket.
The trailer introduces Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Kirby as his partner, Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Quinn as Sue’s brother, Johnny Storm/Human Torch and Moss-Bachrach as their close friend Ben Grimm/The Thing.
According to a synopsis for the upcoming film, the Fantastic Four are “forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond” and ultimately “must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner).”
“Before we went up the first time, you couldn’t turn invisible,” Pascal’s Richards tells Kirby’s Storm in the trailer. “Ben wasn’t a rock and Johnny never caught fire.”
Storm replies, “Ben has always been a rock… Johnny is… Johnny. And I am right here. Whatever life throws at us, we’ll face it together — as a family.” We also see a shot of Galactus, in his unmistakable helmet, looming over New York City.
The final scene from the trailer shows a glimpse of the four in their signature Fantastic Four suits.
The film, directed by Matt Shakman, also stars Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich and Sarah Niles.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps arrives in theaters July 25.
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David Lynch, the Oscar-nominated director of films including Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, and co-creator of the cult drama series Twin Peaks, has died. He was 78.
“It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch,” a statement on his official Facebook account said. “We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.'”
The statement added, “It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”
The filmmaker revealed in August 2024 that he had developed emphysema after years of smoking. “I’m homebound whether I like it or not,” Lynch told Sight and Sound magazine. “I can’t go out. And I can only walk a short distance before I’m out of oxygen.”
Lynch added in a social media post at the time that he was “in excellent shape” otherwise, declaring, “I am filled with happiness, and I will never retire.”
An acclaimed film director and screenwriter, visual artist, musician and composer known for his surreal, sometimes macabre, works, Lynch was nominated for four Academy Awards over his more than six-decade career, though he only directed 10 feature films between his 1977 debut, Eraserhead, and his most recent film, 2006’s Inland Empire. So singular was his artistic vision, however, that in 2019 Lynch received an honorary Academy Award in recognition of his body of work and contribution to cinema.
He also received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his 1990s TV series Twin Peaks, which introduced the broader public to his eclectic style that often juxtaposed fantastical or dreamlike elements with mundane environments – a signature aesthetic that came to be described as “Lynchian.”
