The 35-year-old actor performed Thomas Hutter reverse his co-star, 25-year-old Lily-Rose Depp, who performed his spouse Ellen within the horror remake.

Whereas showing on Capital Night Present with Jimmy Hill, the actor revealed how a lot they struggled on set as a result of they have been filming alongside greater than 5 thousand actual rats.

“They’re actual,” he revealed.

“I feel in sure scenes when there’s actually tons and much — some within the background are like scanned in digital rats to do this however the majority of the time they’re all actual rats, yeah.”

Hill, understandably shocked, then requested if the actors have been “okay with rats?”

“I imply to be trustworthy they are not my private fave, however I really like them from afar,” Depp mentioned.

“My character did not have to essentially reckon with any rats, Invoice and Emma needed to cope with extra rats type of near the physique,” she added.

“Yeah, they’d them crawling throughout them and stuff,” Hoult mentioned.

“I used to be in that scene with Emma the place they’d all of the rats crawling throughout their physique and I remembered pondering I don’t envy you now,” he mentioned earlier than including that their scent was “fairly wealthy” resulting from not being home educated.

We have been unaware you can home prepare a rat…

Hoult then shared his “diva” second from set the place he advised the crew “that is not going to work for me.”

“That is unrelated however the one time I have been a diva on set — was when there was a scene, I used to be meant to be consuming ice cream and clearly I am wanting ahead to it and I get there and take a chew of the ice cream, and it’s lard blended with meals coloring and sugar.”

Hoult additional defined: “It was faux ice cream it was completely disgusting, and my character was meant to eat plenty of this all through the day.”

“And I used to be like, ‘What is that this?’ and so they have been like, ‘Oh it is lard we thought the ice cream may soften due to the set and the warmth and every little thing’ and I used to be like, ‘No that is not going to work for me.’”

“So, they went to Tesco’s not far away and picked up a load of actual ice cream for me so I might.

“I used to be like that’s completely foul I can not eat that!”

Nosferatu is in cinemas now.