Robert Eggers • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #309
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 309 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Cinematic excellence this week as Pip is joined by director of VVITCH and THE LIGHTHOUSE, it’s ROBERT EGGERS!
A real nice locked on an locked in chat with Robert, which goes in deep as you would want about all things Lighthouse, his latest directorial gem featuring Willem Defoe and Robert Pattinson. It’s a proper film-nerd paradise, as Robert opens up about his VVitch backgrounds, acting under environmental duress, the importance of casting, attitudes to rehearsal and how that informed performances, cinematography (thanks to Jarin Blaschke - pronounced ‘Jah-Rinn Blash-key’), the collaborative nature of the whole endeavour, aspect ratio and cinematic intention, the local history of a location, theatre vs film, flatulence (it’s in context) and all manner of movie magic. You’ll dig it and your intrigue for The Lighthouse will certainly be piqued - keep an eye out for that and ENJOY THIS CONVERSATION!
••• BIT OF A SPOILER MAYBE, at 44:30 - 45:20 ••• WATCH OUT! •••
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome welcome welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 309 |
| 0:05.8 | Thank you for tuning in guys. I'm joined this week by Robert Eggers who I |
| 0:11.2 | Was incredibly excited to to sit down and have a conversation with um I |
| 0:15.8 | Spoke to a few of my my close friends ahead of ahead of this one |
| 0:20.0 | And I was quite nervous about it because I'm a big fan of Robert's work |
| 0:24.5 | The which was a mate an amazing debut a mind-blowing debut and then the lighthouse had made it into my into my films of the year and I've not |
| 0:33.1 | seen many interviews |
| 0:35.1 | or conversations with Robert and and these films are like they're proper |
| 0:40.9 | You know, so I was like I was quite nervous that I might you know, I'm massively into film. That's |
| 0:47.7 | Daddy I adore it |
| 0:49.5 | But you know everyone has kind of imposter syndrome also in acting I'm studying more and more |
| 0:55.1 | But if one has kind of imposter syndrome and I thought what if I get there and and and I feel completely out of my depth and |
| 1:02.5 | I walked in and was instantly relaxed as |
| 1:06.6 | Relax as soon as we started talking number one we you know I had |
| 1:11.3 | similar beards and haircuts were both wearing all black |
| 1:15.8 | And it felt it felt far more relaxed than I was expecting and what unfolded was one of my favorite conversations far from feeling |
| 1:24.9 | uncomfortable or out of my depth I felt |
| 1:28.0 | hugely excited to be discussing these things that that excited me about film and about cinema and about the process and about the results |
| 1:36.6 | So yeah, it was a great conversation |
| 1:39.5 | I've recorded it just for Christmas really pleased to have it out now the reason it's out now is because the lighthouse is in the cinemas |
| 1:49.3 | This Friday the 31st is is the 31st Friday |
| 1:55.0 | calendar it's out this week anyway. Yeah the 31st and |
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