Willem Dafoe was recently interviewed by Vanity Fair and was shown certain scenes from his films including The Lighthouse. This is what Willem had this to say about filming The Lighthouse and not bonding with Robert Pattinson:

[I’m fond of my lobster scene]. This is from The Lighthouse a film I really enjoyed doing directed by the great Robert Eggers. It is Rob Pattinson and myself. We’re lighthouse keepers. I’m the old hand, he’s the new guy and I’m a little upset with him. One of the beauties of Robert Eggers is that he understands language, the language of this speech [What, what what what scene], is so beautiful, it has a rhythm, it has a sound, it has a music, it was a pleasure to do. [Let Neptune strike you dead Winslow]. The whole idea was that we weren’t bonding. Those are the characters, but it was so cold and so brutal that we’re always setting up for shots, and that there was no hanging out. Rob, I liked him a great deal and it was fun to work with him, but we didn’t know each other because we were always either getting warm or doing the scene, not that much hanging out and outside of the scenes, that was our relationship.