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EGGERS: So, I’ll stay off that.
But otherwise, they’re quite different.
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The way that our press notes phrased it was that you wanted to write andperformthat stage adaptation.
Does that mean you also wanted to act in it, as well?
EGGERS: I, embarrassingly, might have played Orlok.
I was wondering which role you would go for.
I mean, in this version, I would venture to play Von Franz.
That’s what my guess was going to be.
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I’m sure you were a wonderful Orlok, too.
EGGERS: I mean, everything, really.
I’ve just grown so much as a person and as a filmmaker.
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My collaboration with my creative department is so much stronger.
We’re more fluid.
We’re more extensions of each other.
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