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Robert Eggers found worldwide fame when he directed the 2015 movieThe VVitch.He later joined forces with Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe to create the 2019 masterpiece titledThe Lighthouse.Seemingly inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s works, the movie was horror and yet beautiful to behold.
Being set on a remote island, the filming conditions were quite brutal. Robert Pattinson would know all about it too well since he almost punched the director. Revealing some intense conditions, Pattinson stated that the movie was something unique that he was happy to be a part of.
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Shooting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the weather conditions were terrible for filming. It was a bonus point for director Robert Eggers who wanted the intense conditions, but it was hell for the actors. Suffering from storms, strong winds, and crashing waves, Robert Pattinson had a hard time shooting the movie.
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In an interview, the actor talked about his role inThe Lighthouse.Since most of the scenes of Pattinson were shot outdoors,The Batmanactor had to have the worst of the beating as the weather mercilessly poured down on the actor. And to top it all off, director Robert Eggers was pushing the actor to his limits at which point,Robert Pattinsonalmost felt like punching the director.
“That’s the closest I’ve come to punching a director. However much I love Robert [Eggers], there was a point where I did five takes walking across the beach, and after a while I was like, ‘What the f*** is going on? I feel like you’re just spraying a fire hose in my face.’ And he was like, ‘I am spraying a fire hose in your face.’ It was like some kind of torture. It definitely creates an interesting energy.”
This isn’t the first case of an actor physically hitting or threatening a director for pushing too hard. Tom Hardy, the actor known for his grunts and accents, once choked director Alejandro Iñárritu while filming the 2015 masterpieceThe Revenant.
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The Revenantwas a 2015 masterpiece starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy in prominent roles. Shooting in cold wintery conditions, Hardy wanted to let off some steam and he asked director Alejandro Iñárritu to wrestle in front of the cast and crew.
“When things get a bit too serious, I go, ‘Why don’t we have a cuddle in front of all these people here?’ It ends with both of us falling down in the snow. I think that’s a good thing. If I’m the naughty boy for doing that, then I’d rather be the naughty boy and release that tension.”
A quick photo of Hardy choking the director was taken which thePeaky Blindersprinted on a t-shirt and gave to the cast and crew mates ofThe Revenant.Suffice it to say, the weather conditions are solely responsible.
The Lighthouse,standing at a rating of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, is available to stream on Paramount+ in the U.S.
Source:Interview Magazine
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
