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.

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:

Hoult stars as estate agent Thomas Hutter who works for Skarsgård's Count Orlok in the remake of the 1922 silent film

Premiering Dec. 25 in U.S. theaters, Nosferatu stars Skarsgård as an ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks a haunted young woman ( Lily-Rose Depp) that becomes mysteriously obsessed with the creature.

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.