How Robert Pattinson ‘Lost His Mind’ Before Shooting ‘The Lighthouse’

Recently appearing in Netflix’s original movie “The King” and Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse,” Robert Pattinson has maintained a relatively busy schedule of late, despite the fact that he nearly left acting entirely. In a sit down with EW’s The Awardist, the 33-year-old actor best known for his vampiric appearances in the “Twilight” saga dives deep into the cold and rough set of “The Lighthouse.”

“The first day of the shoot was probably [spent] naked in this little shed and kind of just losing my mind—and I had a rain hat on!” Pattinson said. “I think we were also trying to establish how the light really looked."

"I was kind of just looking in the monitor and just kind of checking," he added. "Because it’s quite striking what you can do, because you’re working in very unusual confines. You have no idea what actually stuff looks like. So, that was kind of fun.”

“The Lighthouse,” both written and directed by Eggers, follows two lighthouse attendants (Pattinson and Willem Dafoe), on a cold and rainy remote island. As their time together unfolds, they each fall more into their own dark and twisted depravities. Filmed all in black-and-white, “The Lighthouse” movie itself is meant to be an homage to prior filmmaking, from the cabin fever of "The Shining" to classic Alfred Hitchcock tropes.

Of course, that isn't the only film he has had to work hard and prepare for since he has another big title coming his way as well.

Now having been cast as the Caped Crusader himself in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” Pattinson has a whole new role to take on and a legendary spot to fill.

On tackling his new heroic persona, Pattinson said: “'The Batman’ movies have always attracted really really good directors and really good actors playing it. It’s got a legacy and a lineage to it. It’s never seemed to me like it was just a cash-in.”

Pattinson will be starring alongside the likes of many talented faces in showbiz, from Jeffrey Wright and Zoë Kravitz to Andy Serkis and the still-rumored Colin Farrell. Pattinson goes on to relate that Reeves’s “The Batman” and various prior Batman flicks are exponential to pop culture.

“If you look at the Burton ones and even how the TV series was done. People still watch the TV series. That is a classic TV show. It’s very very very well done and the performances are great. It’s a very interesting kind of pop art-y TV show. Yeah, I just always feel like it’s not like they just made a movie so they could sell toys.”