Anya Taylor-Joy asked to play ‘The Lighthouse’ mermaid but the director said no
nme.comThe Lighthouse.The actor has worked with director Robert Eggers on two feature films, his directorial debut The Witch and The Northman opposite Alexander Skarsgård.
While she didn’t make an appearance in his second film The Lighthouse, it wasn’t through a lack of trying.Speaking to NME, she revealed how she asked Eggers for a role in the film starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.“I felt very lucky that Rob [Eggers] and I love each other so much and he wanted me to come along on this journey,” Taylor-Joy said about joining The Northman.“I was jumping at it because when he first called me and was like, ‘Hey I’m making The Lighthouse and there’s no role for you.
There’s a mermaid…” I was like, ‘I can be the mermaid!’ He was like, ‘You really should not be this particular mermaid, Anya.’ I was like, ‘I can be the seagull, I can just be in the background.’”The Lighthouse follows two lighthouse keepers who slowly descend into madness when a storm leaves them stranded on a remote island.
In one explicit scene, Pattinson’s character Thomas Howard is seen fantasising about having sex with a mermaid (played by Valeriia Karaman) while masturbating in a shed.
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