“He had some big projects that he was trying to get off the ground that never quite happened.”
“We pledged to do something together,” says the actor. He was so impressed by The Witch he contacted Eggers directly and discovered they had many shared interests. Willem Dafoe was attracted by the language in The Lighthouse.ĭafoe was one of them.
People wanted to know what he would do next and whether they could be part of it.
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The success of The Witch – the $US4 million ($A5.8 million) movie won the directing prize at the Sundance Film Festival and took $US40 million ($A58.3 million) at the box office – moved Eggers into the top tier of cinematic auteurs. Imagine a more demented version of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible featuring cinema’s scariest goat, and you get some sense of a movie The New York Times described as a “finely calibrated shiver”. That film, a supernatural horror about a Puritan family tormented by evil forces emanating from a forest, was also set in New England, the region where Eggers grew up. The Lighthouse is the 36-year-old Brooklyn-based director’s second feature film following his successful 2015 debut The Witch. The architect of this beautiful madness is Robert Eggers. To reveal further details would spoil its many surprises but suffice to say it is a finely-drawn maritime nightmare that haunted me for days after the credits rolled. The Lighthouse has all these ingredients and much, much more. Violent seagulls, a randy mermaid, industrial quantities of liquor and creeping insanity. Credit:Vera Anderson/WireImageįarts, faeces and body odour. Willem Dafoe says his character farts to show his dominance. “I’m sick of your laugh, your snoring and your goddamn farts,” yells Winslow driving his fist into the wall. Marooned on an island off the coast of New England, with only malignant seagulls for company, Wake and Pattinson’s Efraim Winslow wrestle – literally at times – for the upper hand. For the most part they were added in post-production.”įor the most part? That might explain why his Lighthouse co-star Robert Pattinson looks so unnerved by the symphony of trouser trumpets emanating from Dafoe’s grizzled lighthouse keeper, Thomas Wake. I guess the answer is, sometimes yes, sometimes no. “People tend to want to know about the farts,” he says evenly. Dafoe’s gauntly handsome face splits into a toothy grin. They occur with such plangent frequency during his performance in The Lighthouse, one might easily assume the American actor had developed the ability to pass wind at the whim of his director.Ĭan he? Fart on demand, I mean. We need to talk about Willem Dafoe’s farts.
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