Building a full-scale lighthouse and using 19th-century lenses for authenticity for movie The Lighthouse

Willem Dafoe (left) and Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse. PHOTO: UIP
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LOS ANGELES - Off camera, Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe barely spoke to each other while making The Lighthouse - a strange and darkly funny tale of two lighthouse keepers stranded in a storm and slowly driving each other mad.

This is because the actors were too exhausted to socialise at the end of each day's filming on the ambitious production, a 34-day shoot in a cold, remote corner of Canada that doubles for 1890s New England.

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