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Robert Eggers On The Northman: "When You're Making Creative Work, You're Trying To Share What It Is To Be Human"
"Entertainment is sort of my fifth or fifteenth priority with the first two [movies]," Robert Eggers tells me with a laugh. The Northman, his new movie which hits cinemas April 15, is a grand departure from the smaller, isolated tales of The Witch and The Lighthouse. While they were slow-burning, creepy dramas that often defied interpretation, The Northman is a bona fide action flick. Though Eggers' distinctive style is still clear to see, The Northman feels like an experiment in what might happen if you give a visionary indie director a $90 million budget and see what he comes up with. "When you're making creative work, you're trying to share what it is to be a human being with other human beings. So the challenge of trying to make a movie that I could share with a lot more people and still be myself was something that I was very curious to see if I could accomplish, and we'll see if the experiment comes off."