With three major films before year’s end, this season is peak career time for for Nicholas Hoult.

Friday’s Clint Eastwood courtroom drama “Juror #2” launches Hoult’s trilogy. He’s a tormented juror in a high-profile murder trial in a case with more twists than any pretzel.

December brings, first, “The Order,” an action-packed thriller inspired by an actual gang that terrorized the Pacific Northwest in the 1980s. Hoult switches gears to play a racist terrorist plotting to overthrow the government.

Come Christmas Hoult’s the tormented victim of Bram Stoker’s vampire Count Orlak in “Nosferatu.”

This kind of triple bonanza is “Always about the directors, the scripts and where I feel I am. You don’t want to repeat yourself,” Hoult, 34, allowed on Zoom. “I’m very fortunate getting to work with people like Clint who creates such a wonderful sense of community on his sets.”

Eastwood, 94, marks his 40th film as director with “Juror #2.” He began on TV and learned that sometimes you only get one take, a process he’s perfected in his own Oscar-winning work.

When you hear Eastwood sometimes doesn’t even do Take 1, that “He shoots the rehearsal” and moves on, it’s no exaggeration.

Toni Collette, who prosecutes the homicide case in “Juror,” appreciated Eastwood’s unique filming method. “People are always like, ‘Let’s do it again for safety.’ But there’s no safety take with Clint — he trusts what he has which I very much admire.

“Clint simplifies things to the point that you let go of any (expletive) you might have as well. He just creates this incredible atmosphere of calm. He doesn’t even say ‘Action.’ He just says something like ‘Go’ or ‘Whenever you’re ready’ and it just is a beautiful way to work.”

For Hoult, this filmmaker famous for first takes, is partly “what makes the performances in his movies so special,” he realized. “It’s this catching lightning in a bottle. There can be times where overdoing, overcommitting and trying to force things cannot be to the benefit of the story.

“That’s one of the things I love about Clint’s movies: He lets the story and characters evolve in front of you without pushing too hard.”

Hoult’s Justin Kemp, the juror, hides a secret about the case.  “It’s an interesting moral story, this complex idea of someone whose past haunts him. He’s moved on, built himself a great life, and then is suddenly dragged back into these old mistakes.

“There’s this complex moral idea of, ‘How do you protect yourself and your family when you don’t feel like you deserve what’s happening?’

“But also, he knows that the justice system is not necessarily pursuing the right person. Now that was very interesting.”

“Juror #2” opens Nov. 1

This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows director Clint Eastwood, left, and Toni Collette behind the scenes during production for “Juror #2”. (Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)