'Lighthouse' stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson endure harsh weather and tense situations in the film's making.
Like many great films before it, Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse” came to life because another project specifically hadn’t. As the writer-director tells it, he was in the third year of trying to get “The Witch” off the ground, but no one wanted to finance a period horror indie. Ultimately, that Sundance standout would go on to earn critical acclaim and $40 million worldwide.
Eventually, the siblings decided to collaborate on the screenplay that became one of the most talked about films on the 2019 festival circuit. A movie centered on the contentious working relationship between a first-time lighthouse operator with a mysterious past, Ephraim , and his cantankerous obsessive superior, Thomas .
“I think that most film actors like to save [their performance] and I’m happy to indulge that,” Eggers says. “Willem doesn’t really need to save it, because he has more energy than anyone else on the planet. He can go 110% in rehearsals and then go 110% on camera, which is amazing, and then occasionally go 130%.”
Those tensions also helped Pattinson fashion one of the most nuanced and powerful performances of his career. In constructing his portrayal, the celebrated actor had lots of questions about his character or a scene for Eggers. Answers, it turns out, that Eggers says he didn’t necessarily want to share.“A lot of times, Rob would ask me, ‘Is it this, is it that? Is it this, is it that?’ And I needed the ambiguities so the audience can ask the questions about his past,” Eggers explains.
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