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:

“I have Count Orlok’s prosthetic penis framed at home,” Hoult told co-star Lily-Rose Depp. “There’s a scene where Bill Skarsgård is slurping my blood, and Robert Eggers asked afterwards, ‘How was that for you?’… And I said, ‘I could feel his prosthetic penis on my leg.’”

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.

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.

However, the frame had been broken in transit, and Hoult had to take the penis to a local frame shop to get it fixed. “[The shopkeeper] kind of didn’t even blink the first tim