Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. In 2019, he had a supporting role in Edward Norton's period crime drama Motherless Brooklyn where he played powerful developer Moses Randolph's "beaten and broken" brother. Willem mentioned that whoever dropped out did so to be in a project that ended up flopping, so maybe if we look at flops around that time and compare their actors to Wes' familiar roster we can find out who it is. [92][93] Dafoe co-starred in XXX: State of the Union (2005), an action film sequel starring Ice Cube in which Dafoe played a US Secretary of Defense attempting a coup d'tat against the President of the United States. Official Sites Jan 1, 2022, 4:33 AM. : [50] Dafoe portrayed the poet T. S. Eliot in the drama Tom & Viv (also in 1994), which tells the story of Eliot and his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, who was played by Miranda Richardson. [101], In 2007, Dafoe played a pretentious film director in the British comedy film Mr. Bean's Holiday, starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. [52], "I really made a conscious effort to mix it up, not because in itself it's not the job of an actor to do all different things, but for me that's what I'm interested in. Are we - are we safe in here? I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin. published July 18, 2017. He played an underground fight promoter in Out of the Furnace (2013), the menacing employer of the sex-addicted main character in Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2013) and Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2013), a German banker in A Most Wanted Man (2014), a henchman in Andersons The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and an assassin in John Wick (2014). Named one of "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century" by the New York Times (November 25, 2020). He played the "hilariously doltish" German first mate of a research vessel owned by the eponymous lead character, who is played by Bill Murray. I'm always very fond of laconic, cut-off characters that have a rich inner life, and you have to restrain that. Well, you traveled a long way for "I don't know," sonny. Today the actor is 66 years old. [71] The Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum opined felt the film's "only redeeming quality" was Dafoe's "enjoyably over-the-top, eye-rolling performance". One of his more visually unsettling films, Dafoe plays He in Lars von Trier's Antichrist. I misunderstood. [154] Dafoe stated he found the use of gun fu combat created an interesting mix of action, stating "you have the grace of martial arts, but then the bang of the gun". No, we're out of dynamite anyway. I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. Klaus, don't call me "sonny.". Other Oscar-nominated films include Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Florida Project (2017), and At Eternity's Gate (2018). "[45][46], Dafoe next starred in the erotic thriller Body of Evidence (1993) with Madonna. Klaus Daimler We're being led on an illegal suicide mission by a selfish maniac. Steve Zissou : No, we're out of dynamite anyway. Klaus Daimler [3][4][5] One of eight children of Muriel Isabel (ne Sprissler) (November 29, 1921 September 14, 2012) and Dr. William Alfred Dafoe (July 21, 1917 November 21, 2014),[6][7] he recalled in 2009: "My five sisters raised me because my father was a surgeon, my mother was a nurse and they worked together, so I didn't see either of them much. Not if I don't see you first, sonny. He co founded The Wooster Group in Manhattan. [61] Following a villainous supporting role in the romantic mystery drama Lulu on the Bridge,[62] Dafoe starred alongside Christopher Walken and Asia Argento in Abel Ferrara's cyberpunk drama New Rose Hotel in 1998. [40] In the same year, Dafoe co-starred in David Lynch's crime film Wild at Heart with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. Browse shows and movies that include Willem Dafoe, such as The Northman, Spider-Man: No Way Home and more. You've got to be careful because you've got to work with what you have, not just for vanity's sake, but I think the best part of being an actor sometimes is the opportunity to transform yourself superficially, and deeply. As a 12-year old, he attended the 1967 NFL Championship Game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers, better known as the Ice Bowl, one of the most famous games in pro football history. Throughout the 1990s Dafoe continued to appear in roles that allowed him to explore moral ambiguity in characters. He then narrated Australian documentarian Jennifer Peedom's documentary Mountain. Steve Zissou Steve! Since then, he worked with Richard Foreman in Idiot Savant at The Public Theatre (NYC), with Robert Wilson on two international productions: The Life & Death of Marina Abramovic and The Old Woman opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov and developed a new theatre piece, directed by Romeo Castellucci, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil. [183][184] Also, like Alfred Molina (who reprised his role as Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus in the film), Dafoe was digitally de-aged for the character's 2002 self. You don't make a bullshit movie. Willem was born William James Dafoe on July 22, 1955, in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA, to William Alfred Dafoe, doctor, and his wife Muriel Isabel. Dafoes other credits that year included Guillermo del Toros film noir Nightmare Alley and The Card Counter, a crime drama directed by Paul Schrader. But sometimes the most important thing is just having a good costume. The film garnered a poor reaction critics, with a reviewer for Paste stating "there's only so much depth [Dafoe] can bring to such a shallow character". Frequently portrays psychotic villains or wounded mentors. Elias Grodin in Oliver Stones Platoon (1986), which earned Dafoe his first Academy Award nomination. I always like to mix it up. After studying at 'Appleton East High School,' he enrolled at the 'University of Wisconsin' in Milwaukee to study drama when he was 17. Esteban was eaten! On some level, I'm a sensation junkie. Fans are cheering for several big surprises while seeing "Spider-Man: No Way Home," but long after seeing the film one thing's clear: People are loving Willem Dafoe's scene-stealing performance as Norman Osborn aka the Green Goblin. Get him out of the fucking water! Klaus Daimler I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy, besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. [143] In Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace (2013), starring Christian Bale, Dafoe played the supporting role of a bookmaker running an illegal gambling operation. : Klaus Daimler That's true. The film was adapted from the novel of the same name and depicts his struggle with various forms of temptation throughout his life. Klaus Daimler The Lantern's Brett Price wrote that Dafoe was "on another level" in No Way Home and not having his mask made him even more intimidating than he was in the 2002 film. : [2004, on selection parts] I'm always looking for an adventure-I try not to work just to work. He was bitten? He was also nominated for his portrayal of the 19th-century painter Vincent van Gogh during his last years in At Eternitys Gate (2018). [174] Owen Gleiberman of Variety said "Both actors are sensational (and they work together like one), but in terms of sheer showboating power its Dafoes movie. Klaus Daimler Like the novel, the film sparked controversy for departing from the biblical portrayal of Jesus and was branded as being blasphemous. 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[Written text of what Steve is shouting rolls onto the screen as he speaks]. Dafoe co-starred in the film as the father of Bryce Dallas Howard's character, a woman who discovers a plantation still thriving as if slavery had never been abolished. [44] In his next starring role, Paul Schrader's drama Light Sleeper, Dafoe played John LeTour, a lonely, insomniac, New Yorker working as a delivery man for a drug supplier, who is played by Susan Sarandon. [118] Dafoe next had a small role in the French thriller Farewell as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and co-starred opposite Michael Shannon in Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, in which he played a detective attempting to figure out why a troubled man killed his own mother. [131] Dafoe then starred in the Australian drama The Hunter, playing a professional hunter who travels to Tasmania to hunt down the world's only remaining thylacine. [121] Dafoe had a voice role in Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated film Fantastic Mr. Fox starring George Clooney as the titular Roald Dahl character. [24], Dafoe's sole film release of 1986 was Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film Platoon, gaining him his widest exposure up to that point for playing the compassionate Sergeant Elias Grodin. Dafoe played a paraplegic, wheelchair-using Vietnam veteran who befriends the film's subject Ron Kovic (played by Tom Cruise), another paraplegic veteran. 1/8 inch (3.2mm) white border around each design. Technical Specs, [after pirates have boarded his ship, being bound and blindfolded], [stands up and turns toward the nearest pirate]. Klaus Daimler [15] Dafoe would continue with the Wooster Group into the 2000s. [81], Later in 2002, Dafoe starred with Greg Kinnear in Paul Schrader's biographical film Auto Focus, Dafoe's third collaboration with Schrader. "[8] His brother, Donald Dafoe, is a transplant surgeon and researcher. 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