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.

Nosferatu actor Nicholas Hoult has praised his co-star Lily-Rose Depp for her "physical transformation" in the film, saying she would "completely escape her body", while Depp said the physically demanding scenes would "shake up emotions".

Before his debut as Lex Luthor, before he's menaced by Nosferatu, before he was Nux in Mad Max: Fury Road or Beast in the X-Men movies, Nicholas Hoult tried and failed to get into Hogwarts.

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

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.

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

The actor will star alongside Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe and Emma Corrin in the horror drama film set to release on Christmas Day