I know it's definitely not a family he
can't a dracula this one
and it looks just terrifying
it's about blood is literally a bow
blood it will offer lots of shocks it's
very exciting it's absolutely terrifying
there are really horrifying scenes you
don't get more dramatic than this
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Tony take one mr. Haku you must take
this that's very kind of you thank you I
couldn't possibly you must I suppose the
thing about Dracula is it's one of those
characters that you you want a crack at
you want you want your own version of I
think every era has to have his Dracula
and there's something irresistible about
having him having a go at such a an
iconic character and as with Sherlock
Holmes in Baker Street you know briefly
having the keys of the castle to play
around with it's irresistible and
exciting something that Bram Stoker did
way back in 1897 he sort of crystallized
an awful lot of vampire legend into this
fantastic clearly immortal character the
thing that we thought we could try and
it was very very challenging very very
difficult was to make Dracula the main
character I know that sounds slightly
odd but if you look at the book he's
he's not in it that much he's in the
first few chapters and then he's he's in
the background so how do you actually
put the spotlight on Dracula what we've
got here this Dracula is very it's quite
closely connected to the Bram Stoker
novel it's a high adventure novel
there's lots of derring-do there's lots
of coach chases there's lots of stuff
like that so we've tried to embrace all
that
I am place and I am playing Dracula I
immediately like I thought I loved that
name I hope he's right for it one of the
very few occasions where the bad guy is
the main guy nobody's perfect
it's a tough ass casting Dracula because
you actually want to say he's he's so
attractive and charming and interesting
that is worth giving up the rest of your
life for one night with this guy place
was really the only one that was in our
sights really he brings 100% commitment
to the role huge energy huge sort of
sexual energy as well as being a kind of
demonic force
so I played Jonathan Harker he's a
lawyer from England and he gets sent to
Dracula's castle to finalize the deeds
of a house for Count Dracula Jonathan
Harker of course famously is the the
first character to introduce us to two
Dracula it's very important to me for
him not to be too much of a of a
pushover he's an incredibly courageous
man I'm playing the character of Mina
and she is very much in love with her
fiance Johnson Hawk and will do anything
to make sure that he is safe I prepared
for this role by becoming just
completely obsessed with the undead I
was just so excited that mark and Steven
were making it really because when I
read it I was like this is so perfect of
course they should do this because their
style suits it so well because I think
they're both a little little dark
themselves and twist that humor which is
just Dracula really
my character is called sister Agatha and
she is not like many nuns you've seen
before I cannot be trusted alone with a
man
consider yourself chaperoned she's a
real modern-day her and she's really
brave she's brilliant
what dolly brings to it is an immense
grasp of comedy if you combine all the
qualities of an atheistic or nun with a
sort of actually hero I admire her
hugely he's got to be found in our
prayer not
I play the Mother Superior man Superior
is like a dragon at the front of the
gates of the convent protecting the nuns
and protecting the sanctity of the place
while with the forces of darkness which
to attack a convent perhaps they're
sensitive to criticism but she's up
against it with Dracula
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