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.

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.

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

After a strange experience on set, Hoult now has a bizarre gift from director Robert Eggers that he keeps on display.

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.’”

Nicholas Hoult will always be reminded of his Nosferatu costar Bill Skarsgård's faux phallus. In a new interview published ahead of the horror film's release on Wednesday, December 25, Hoult, 35, revealed the hilarious wrap gift director Robert Eggers,