Luc Besson Gives A Tour Of His ‘Dracula: A Love Tale’ Set, Talks New Muse Caleb Landry Jones & Rewatching His “Mad” Movie ‘Valerian’; First Look Revealed
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Caleb Landry Jones extends a gnarly bejewelled hand as he arrives on the set of Luc Besson’s gothic drama Dracula: A Love Tale.
The Three Boards and Nitram actor is unrecognizable after four hours in make-up. His already tall frame augmented by platform shoes, he towers over Besson, the cast and the crew. “How are you?” asks Jones, staying in character with a thick Transylvanian accent and syntax, adding in response to a comment on his appearance: “They done incredible… this man back here, he make everything.” Jones has appeared at the end of a tour of the extensive Dracula: A Love Tale set in the vast Darkmatters studio southwest of Paris, conducted by Besson.
Above is a first behind-the-scenes look at the actor as the blood-smeared Count. Deadline is not invited to sit in on filming.
Besson likes intimate shoots without distractions, sitting beside his cinematographer and close to his actors, rather than following shots on a monitor. “On my first films I was far from the actors.
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