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- I met with Robert on two
or maybe three other things,
they just hadn't kinda materialized yet
and I think I kept saying to Robert,
I just wanna do whatever you have
that's the strangest thing
you can possibly find.
And he came back to me a few months later
with "The Lighthouse" which as
soon as I read it I was like,
wow, this is very strange,
very strange, correct.
- How long have we been on this rock?
Five weeks?
Two days?
Help me to recollect.
- We were rehearsing in
Halifax and Nova Scotia
but I never really rehearsed.
It was funny just doing a two-hander
and Willem is very much
from a theater background,
loves rehearsing, so it was kind of,
there's a funny little tension.
And I remember doing press in Cannes,
I thought we'd rehearsed for three weeks
and Robert told me like,
"we rehearsed for five days,
"what are you talking about?"
I think it really took it's toll on me.
When you're on that Cape
Forchu where we shot it,
it's just really, really beautiful,
I think you call it a bluff,
but there was nothing there at all.
And if you were walking passed,
I mean, it looked like the most,
you would have absolutely no idea
that it was a fake lighthouse
and this absolutely
stunning production design.
But yeah, everything was built,
and everything was period correct as well,
even the cutlery was authentic,
lighthouse cutlery from
the 1880s or something.
So, yeah, Robert was obsessed with
finding all that kinda stuff.
I think he got it all
off of eBay or something.
- Just lookin' at our living,
just like man, starting new.
- On the run.
- The accent is so specific,
parts of it kind of is this
very, very small patches of Maine
and I remember watching
this documentary about
these lobster fishermen who
have this very peculiar,
almost English, sounds
like a Dorset accent
and it's survived for
hundreds of years in America
and I just thought that
was kinda fascinating.
I always think your voice tells you a lot
about who the character is.
I think trying to kind of figure out
how to mold your mouth around that,
a lot of it just kind of
makes you move differently
and I think that was the major factor.
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What did I learn about mermaids?
Huge vagina. (laughs)
Shockingly large.
Definitely when the reveal
of the mermaid genitalia,
oh god, that's a bit of a
give away, isn't it? (laughs)
I learned nothing about
mermaids at all. (laughs)
I really like Matt Reeves
and his set up for it,
I mean, it's an interesting direction,
it's something from the comics
which hasn't been really explored yet.
You know, it's kind of
crazy shoes to fill.
I mean, it's interesting
what the different directions
you can take with it and that it kind of,
for I'm some ways quite
a specific character,
has actually quite a lot of leeway.
I mean, when you look
at the different tones
of all these movies and the TV shows,
I mean, you can do quite a lot with it.
Yeah, I man, Batman was really
kind of the only super hero
who I really had any
kind of connection with
when I was growing up, I mean, I don't,
and really, yeah, from
the Tim Burton ones.
I mean, I just kind of
was obsessed as a kid.
I don't know, I mean,
it's very, very daunting.
It's weird, I'm quite glad I'm
doing Chris's movie right now
'cause I've got something
else to be nervous about.
So I haven't got enough
anxiety space in my head
to really get too anxious about it yet.
So I'm kind of quite happily
just figuring out how to do things
without really thinking
about the pressure yet.
- [Interviewer] Where
were you when you learned
that you were gonna be
cast as the next Batman?
- I think my first day with Chris Nolan,
which is pretty insane.
That is, I'm not allowed to
really talk about anything,
but he's the best and like, it's kind of,
I mean, it's definitely unlike anything
I've ever worked on.
I literally started the
year without a job. (laughs)
Now I'm like, oh, okay,
work for a year now.
I feel like I've never
really had the opportunity
to just say, oh, I wanna do
this and then it just happens.
I've made it clear to directors
I wanna work with that,
you know, if you ever have anything
I'll drop everything and do it with you.
but like, you can be on indies,
I was doing this movie
"Waiting for the Barbarians"
and ended up being in Morocco for months.
I mean, tons and tons
of days off in between
when I was shooting.
Which is kind of what it
feels like on a studio movie.
And then something like
"The Lighthouse" like,
it's just like every minute of the day,
like late working til six
o'clock in the morning.
Things change very quickly sometimes.
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