”The witch”-director Robert Eggers subjecting his actors to great challenges in the supernatural kammarspelet ”The lighthouse” set on an isolated lighthouse in the 1890’s Maine.

– this is The scariest I’ve done in my was when I would run towards a mermaid in the movie in old-fashioned boots. The stones were like knives. I feared literally for my life at every step, ” said Robert Pattinson on filming that took place in a rocky, desolate backwater of Nova Scotia in Canada.

met the press after a highly acclaimed premiere of ”The lighthouse” in Cannes. He has spent the last couple of years to work with filmvärldens more headstrong directors such as David Cronenberg, Claire Denis.

In ”The lighthouse”, he plays against Willem Dafoe.

” It was not so nice to be buried alive either, especially not at the same time, to deliver a poetic monologue, laughed Willem Dafoe who plays an older sailor who has become the lighthouse keeper and is obsessed with the light in the lighthouse.