Interview: Robert Pattinson on the red carpet for ‘The Lighthouse’ at MVFF42

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Robert Pattinson on the red carpet at the 42nd Mill Valley Film Festival (Photo: John David Levy)

October 5, 2019 – The 42nd Mill Valley Film Festival hosted the West Coast premiere of Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse and star Robert Pattinson was there to accept the Mill Valley Spotlight Award.

Before that, Pattinson hit the red carpet where I asked him about the most daunting elements of making this treacherously funny and wild film and what he looks for when choosing projects.

Videography and editing by John David Levy.

JUST ADDED: Robert Pattinson receiving his Mill Valley Film Festival Spotlight Award from MVFF Founder/Executive Director/Festival Director Mark Fishkin.

After the film, Variety’s Jenelle Riley moderated a Q&A with Pattinson where he discussed working with Robert Eggers and the legendary Willem Dafoe on The Lighthouse, what he defines as a comedy and the news that seagull in the film was trained, one of only two in the world. Watch it below.

After the Q&A Pattinson partied with Booksmart director Olivia Wilde, the Oscar-nominated screenwriters of Dolemite Is My Name, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, Dolemite breakthrough star Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Harriet director Kasi Lemmons.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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