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.

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.

“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.’”

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.

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.