Before filming began, Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson rehearsed with Robert Eggers for a week in a hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia. While Dafoe loved to rehearse given his extensive theatre background, Pattinson didn't want to show and let out too much beforehand, preferring to jump directly into the scene blindly. He found the rehearsal process frustrating and uncomfortable, being used to react impulsively in front of the camera and getting self-conscious by thinking too much about the scene beforehand. His method being, that if he accomplishes certain things in rehearsal, it will later ruin the spontaneity and feel fake in front of the camera. Director Robert Eggers welcomed that the two worked so differently and stated: "They have this incredible, electric chemistry on screen, but it was chemistry through tension. That couldn't have been better for the movie. Rob hated to rehearse because he wanted to surprise me and Willem, but mostly surprise himself with what he would do in the scene. Rob tends to be the best in his first take and he feared he would ruin that. So he held back in the rehearsal period."

Film

Nessun dato in archivio