Was involved for decades (from 1977) with theater director and actress, To date, he has shot 18 films in Europe. William James Dafoe (/ d f o /; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. Their son, Jack, was born in 1982. : [189], On January 18, 2022, it was announced that Dafoe would host Saturday Night Live on January 29, 2022, with musical guest singer Katy Perry.[190]. Dafoes numerous credits from 2016 included the crime drama Dog Eat Dog and the fantasy thriller The Great Wall, about monsters attacking the Great Wall of China. That's true. You're talking to them, they're telling you stories - that informs everything. - On his acting style. Divides his time between Rome, New York City and Los Angeles with his Italian wife Giada. Yes, because it's logical. Michael Caimino fired him from Heaven's Gate because he laughed at a crew member's joke on set. And it may be temporary, and you have no illusion." Klaus, don't call me "sonny.". [35] Dafoe was briefly considered for the role of the super-villain the Joker in the Tim Burton-directed superhero film Batman (1989), as screenwriter Sam Hamm noticed physical similarities, but was never offered the part that eventually went to Jack Nicholson. - IMDb Mini Biography By: At the same time, when you arrive, you've got to be able to abandon those preconceptions and be mercurial. He studied theatre at the University of Wisconsin but left school to join Theater X, an experimental Wisconsin-based theatre troupe with which Dafoe toured for four years. [stands up and turns toward the nearest pirate] [28] At the 59th Academy Awards, Dafoe was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, but the statuette was awarded to Michael Caine (for the 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters). I always like to mix it up. Willem Dafoe discusses the roles that make up his film career, including "The Wooster Group," "Heaven's Gate," "The Loveless," "Platoon," "The Last Temptation of Christ," "Wild at Heart," "The . [deleted] 8 mo. She, with her former romantic partner Spalding Gray and others, edged out Schechner and created the Wooster Group. Steve Zissou: You never say, "I'm gonna fight you, Steve." You just smile and act natural, and then you sucker-punch. : I shot it dorsally with a homing dart! Osborn is a family friend of Spider-Man's secret identity Peter Parker as Osborn's son, Harry Osborn (played by James Franco), is a close friend of Parker. [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. Austin Burke (@theBurk3nator) December 15, 2021 No Way Bork (@BorkEternal) December 18, 2021 Dafoe returns to the role almost 20 years after his . Yes, I am. Ten meters in length! [43] Dafoe had two lead roles in 1992. Director Julian Schnabel Writers Jean-Claude Carrire Louise Kugelberg Julian Schnabel Stars Willem Dafoe Rupert Friend Oscar Isaac See production, box office & company info Watch on Freevee Watch Free on Freevee More watch options Willem Dafoe is widely rumored to be the owner of Hollywood's largest package. I'm an optimist. [15] Dafoe would continue with the Wooster Group into the 2000s. [shouting] : [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. He is of mixed ancestry. There are all kinds of movies, all kinds of impulses and all kinds of needs for people watching movies, and sometimes I'll do a movie that I don't particularly care for, but then I'll run into someone that it speaks to and they love it. [150], In May 2014, Dafoe served as member of the main competition jury at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Worked with an experimental theatre group in Milwaukee while at college. Although the film was largely dismissed by critics,[63] critic David Stratton found there to be "compensation" in the performances. 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What are we doing? [66][67] The film performed poorly at the box office, but has since been branded as being a cult film. Dafoe's co-star John Malkovich portrayed the film's director, F. W. Murnau. A balanced diet of different roles and different stories and movies - I think it's the way to stay healthy artistically and career wise. [122] Dafoe reprised his role from The Boondock Saints in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, making a brief cameo appearance. [12] There he apprenticed under Richard Schechner, director of the avant-garde theater troupe The Performance Group, where he met and became romantically involved with Elizabeth LeCompte. Ja? [20] Dafoe did not receive a credit for his work on the film. The film was co-directed by Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery and paid homage to 1953 film The Wild One, starring Marlon Brando in a similar role. I don't understand. [91] Also in 2004, Dafoe narrated the documentary Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate, chronicling the production of Heaven's Gate and co-starred as a neuropharmacologist in the direct-to-video thriller Control (2004) alongside Ray Liotta and Michelle Rodriguez. Klaus Daimler [119][120] Dafoe played a former vampire who has a cure that can save the human species in the science fiction horror film Daybreakers, which starred Ethan Hawke as a vampire hematologist. Klaus Daimler Encounter with highly abnormal shark-like fish! But sometimes the most important thing is just having a good costume. All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. Ned Plimpton | [195], Dafoe is a pescetarian, believing that "animal farms are one of the main causes of the destruction of the planet". Steve Zissou Dafoe played a cold, domineering English professor who has a strained relationship with his family. : The star of the film, Tom Holland, said that he got scared after bumping into Dafoe by accident one day on set and only then found out about his role in the film. Please don't let any one make fun of me for saying so. Steve Zissou Dec 21, 2021, 2:26 PM Jamie Foxx and Willem Dafoe return in "Spider-Man: No Way Home." Columbia Pictures, composite by Kirsten Acuna/Insider Jamie Foxx reprises his role of Electro in "Spider-Man: No Way Home." In an interview with Marvel.com, the actor said he had a special greeting for Willem Dafoe on set. Steve Zissou Updates? Steve! And that doesn't mean I'm not analytical or that I'm anti-intellectual. Dafoe, the son of a surgeon and a nurse, was one of seven children. Anne-Marie Sakowitz I wonder if it remembers me Steve Zissou Well, you traveled a long way for "I don't know," sonny. Why we like it? [on being a veteran on a set with mostly newcomers in, "How did it affect your performance being in the presence of real destitution and real desperation?" [173] In the same year, he played a lighthouse keeper on a storm-swept island in Robert Eggers' psychological horror The Lighthouse opposite Robert Pattinson. [57] The film starred Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric as a couple vacationing on a luxury cruise that has been hijacked by Dafoe's character, Geiger, a hacker that has programmed the ship to crash into an oil tanker. Film critic Peter Bradshaw noted the physical similarities between Dafoe and Pasolini, although felt Dafoe had too little screen time in the film. [87] Dafoe reprised his role as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man 2 (2004), appearing to his son Harry in an hallucination. Dafoe portrayed John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert who develops a strange friendship with the actor Bob Crane, leading Crane into a downward spiral. Is *that* understood? Willem Dafoe, original name William J. Dafoe, (born July 22, 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S.), American actor known for his versatility and willingness to appear in controversial roles. Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' In 2021 he was featured in another Anderson film, The French Dispatch, playing a crooked accountant. FRESH. Klaus Daimler Klaus Daimler [97] His fourth and final film appearance of 2005 was the crime thriller Ripley Under Ground, in which he played a museum curator. [24] Film critic Roger Ebert commended his "strong" performance in the film. Notable roles include in The English Patient (1996), American Psycho (2000), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Antichrist (2009), John Wick (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), The Lighthouse (2019), The French Dispatch (2021), Nightmare Alley (2021), and The Northman (2022). The film was panned by critics and performed poorly at the box office, with some audience members laughing during the sex scenes. [55] In the period drama Victorywhich was filmed in 1994 and premiered in Europe in 1996, but was not released until 1998Dafoe played a European living on an island in the Southeast Asia who becomes the target of redemption after preventing a woman, played by Irne Jacob, from being raped. : The rest of the team uses a model that's a variation of the adidas sl-72. He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing. [145] Also in 2013, Dafoe played the devil in a Mercedes-Benz Super Bowl commercial[146] and starred in three short student films as part of a competition sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey. Early roles include in Streets of Fire (1984) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) before breakthrough roles in The Last Temptation of Christ and Mississippi Burning both in 1988. [95], With the avant-garde drama Manderlay in 2005, Dafoe began another actor-director collaboration, this time with Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. : [25] He enjoyed the opportunity to play a heroic role and said the film gave him a chance to display his versatility, saying "I think all characters live in you. [37] It was filmed on location at Auschwitz, the first major film to do so. : 8:00 - 18:30 lunes a Viernes. Dafoes other credits that year included Guillermo del Toros film noir Nightmare Alley and The Card Counter, a crime drama directed by Paul Schrader. We're in the middle of a lightning strike rescue op, Klaus. Many years ago, it would have been vulgar to print box-office grosses in the paper. [70] Shadow of the Vampire, his final film of the year, saw him portray a fictionalized version of the German actor Max Schreck during the production of the 1922 horror film Nosferatu, in which Schreck starred as the vampire Count Orlok. Klaus Daimler Do you still want to blow him up? It's one of those invented things. [Written text of what Steve is shouting rolls onto the screen as he speaks]. Steve Zissou Oh Do it again. The same year, Dafoe played Vincent van Gogh in the biographical drama At Eternity's Gate, for which he received the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination among other awards and accolades. DAFOE: I must admit you had me puzzled a lot of the time. Dafoe was an early member of experimental theater company The Wooster Group. Anonymous, Other Works DAFOE: You clearly weren't into rehearsal. Peter Keough of Boston Globe said Dafoe "may be the best actor around for expressing an inner life in extremis."[172]. Eleanor Zissou I can't guarantee that, Klausie, but I'll try. : The story concerns a lawyer, played by Dafoe, who engages in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship with the woman he is representing in a murder case. Dafoe received his second Academy Award nomination for his role as Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), a fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922; Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror). That's all. [191][192][193] They separated in 2004 and were never married because "to her, marriage represented ownership". In the drama Pavilion of Women, he played an American priest living in China who falls in love with a local married woman (played by the film's screenwriter Luo Yan) while giving her son a Western education. [148] Dafoe worked with Wes Anderson for a third time with the comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel (also 2014), featuring as the henchman of Adrien Brody's character alongside an ensemble cast led by Ralph Fiennes. : [19] His role, that of a cockfighter who works for Jeff Bridges' character, was removed from a majority of the film during editing but was visible during a cockfight scene. : While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of our culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. [37] While the film was negatively received, Dafoe's performance was lauded by some critics; Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt he gave a "disciplined performance" and Janet Maslin thought he was "harrowingly good". Ned Plimpton [103] Dafoe starred as the owner of a strip club in Abel Ferrara's Go Go Tales (2007); Manohla Dargis praised his "twitchy, sympathetic performance" in the film. Klaus Daimler Since then, he has collaborated with directors who represent a virtual encyclopedia of modern cinema: James Wan, Robert Eggers, Sean Baker, Kenneth Branagh, Kathryn Bigelow, Sam Raimi, Alan Parker, Walter Hill, Mary Harron, Wim Wenders, Anton Corbijn, Zhang Yimou, Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Oliver Stone, William Friedkin, Werner Herzog, Lars Von Trier, Abel Ferrara, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Anthony Minghella, Theo Angelopoulos, Robert Rodriguez, Phillip Noyce, Hector Babenco, John Milius, Paul Weitz, The Spierig Brothers, Andrew Stanton, Josh Boone, Dee Rees and Julian Schnabel.Dafoe has been recognized with four Academy Award nominations: Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Platoon, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Shadow Of The Vampire, for which he also received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Florida Project, for which he also received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations, and most recently, Best Leading Actor for At Eternity's Gate, for which he also received a Golden Globe nomination. 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. [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. Because you're one of them - just by sheer proximity. [111] Dafoe co-starred as SS Nazi officer in Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected (2008), which starred Jeff Goldblum as a concentration camp internee. Klaus Daimler The cameo was suggested by Dafoe, comparing it to the ghost of Hamlet's father visiting his son to ask him to avenge his death. I'll deal with you later. Critic Stephen Holden wrote in his review of the film, "Even in the "toughest, most macho roles [Dafoe] retains a tinge of Christ-like sweetness and vulnerability". : Upon release of No Way Home, Dafoe's reprisal was met with universal acclaim. The first to be released, White Sands, saw Dafoe a play small-town sheriff who impersonates a dead man after finding his dead body and a suitcase containing $500,000 to solve the case, resulting in an FBI investigation. In the film, Dafoe played a perverse businessman who hires Charlotte Gainsbourg's character to work as a debt collector using sex and sadomasochism. Filming & Production [124] Between October and December 2009, Dafoe appeared in Richard Foreman's surrealist play Idiot Savant at The Public Theater. : [after pirates have boarded his ship, being bound and blindfolded], [starts chewing through the rope binding his hands together]. [194], Dafoe married Italian actress, director, and screenwriter Giada Colagrande on March 25, 2005, a year after the two had met in Rome at the premiere of one of her films. : And the doing is really the key to finding the emotionality and the spirit of things. Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival in 2007. During an interview he explained that about half of the Dafoe family puts the emphasis on the first syllable of their surname, and the other half on the second. All projects pushed their release dates due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[176][177]. Willem Dafoe's Reaction to 'Aquaman' Shows Abel Ferrera and Robert Eggers Are His Superheroes He stars in "Pasolini" and "The Lighthouse," but his thoughts on the D.C. Comics blockbuster . Steve Zissou You just frame them, give them circumstances, and that character will happen. His first name, William, is shared with his father. The longest he has gone without an Academy Award nomination is the 17 years between. Wait a second. I always try to find people that are burning to tell a story and then help them do it. 18 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century. A founding member of The Wooster Group, she has directed that ensemble since its emergence in the late 1970s. I'm gonna fight you, Steve. The film follows a pair of United States Navy pilots, played by Dafoe and Johnson, who scheme and participate in an unauthorized air strike on Hanoi. I don't like thinking about it. He played an actor spending his last hours on Earth before the end of the world with his much-younger lover (played by Shanyn Leigh). 66 year old Willem Dafoe only agreed to return as the Green Goblin as long as he was allowed to perform the stunts and fight scenes. [27] Los Angeles Times writer Sheila Benson praised his performance and found it to be "particularly fine" to see Dafoe play "something other than a psychopath". Cate Blanchett as Jane Winslett-Richardson Anjelica Huston as Eleanor Zissou Willem Dafoe as Klaus Daimler Jeff Goldblum as Alistair Hennessey Michael Gambon as Oseary Drakoulias Bud Cort as Bill Ubell, Bond Company Stooge Noah Taylor as Vladimir Wolodarsky Seu Jorge as Pel dos Santos Robyn Cohen as Anne-Marie Sakowitz Moved to New York in 1977 and soon after founded the Wooster Group which has toured America and the world,. Born at 7:30 PM (CST). 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". Jane Winslett-Richardson He's got hydrogen psychosis, the crazy-eye! Dafoe said in 2010, "We were having lunch and I said: 'Do you want to get married tomorrow?'" [158], The black comedy Dog Eat Dog (2016), Dafoe's sixth film with Paul Schrader, starred Dafoe and Nicolas Cage as a pair of ex-convicts hired to kidnap a baby. Best known for being bad guys in dramas, Dafoe, in "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," takes a rare comic turn as hardworking German boat engineer Klaus. He played an eccentric, gay FBI agent assigned with investigating a series of murders committed by the MacManus twins (played by Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus) who are acting as vigilantes in Boston, Massachusetts after an act of self-defense. Klaus Daimler [60] Also in 1997, Dafoe took on a voice acting role in an episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons titled "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson", voicing the commandant of a military academy that Bart and Lisa Simpson are attending. "[175] Dafoe portrayed sled dog breeder, trainer, and musher Leonhard Seppala in Togo. : How Death Note And Willem Dafoe Brought Ryuk To Life. 3 Antichrist (2009) Nordisk Film Distribution. | Esteban was eaten! Steve! If you're not asking those questions you're not growing. [185] Peter Travers of Good Morning America and Jade King at The Gamer praised Dafoe and Molina, with King asserting that the two "stole the show as Green Goblin and Doc Ock" and described the depictions as brilliant. Brother, Donald Dafoe, is an accomplished transplant surgeon. Cross the line if you're going to quit. His performance drew raves from film critics. Klaus Daimler The film received mostly negative reviews, although the performances were generally praised. PATTINSON: I hardly talked to anyone. Richard Corliss of Time magazine wrote that Dafoe "triumphs over some awful dialogue by giving the role his nutsy-greatsy weirdness". [12] Within a year Dafoe was part of the company. [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. [153] His final film of 2014 was the action thriller John Wick starring Keanu Reeves, in which Dafoe appeared as the mentor to the titular character, a former hitman who is forced out of retirement to seek vengeance for the killing of his puppy. [32] Dafoe's performance in the film was widely praised, however, with Janet Maslin opining that Dafoe brought a "gleaming intensity" to the role. : [84] The murder mystery The Reckoning was Dafoe's final film of 2003, in which he starred with Paul Bettany. He did not want to be called William Jr. or Billy, and among various nicknames since childhood, was Willem, which he liked, and has kept this name ever since. If you ever touch me again, I will kick your goddamn teeth out. Don't you know me and Esteban always thought of you as our baby brother? [camera zooms in on Steve's face - his eyes are dilated ridiculously large]. Steve Zissou It's like going to a cocktail party - you know who's going to be there, you have certain expectations about the topics of conversation and the social dynamic. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. Named one of "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century" by the New York Times (November 25, 2020). Like the novel, the film sparked controversy for departing from the biblical portrayal of Jesus and was branded as being blasphemous. [73], Dafoe took on two leading roles in 2001, both of which were as priests. In 2020, The New York Times ranked him No. The English Patient was filmed in Tuscany, where Dafoe said he particularly enjoyed the "quiet moments in the monastery between shoots". But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not. [39], Dafoe made a cameo appearance in John Waters' musical comedy Cry-Baby (1990) as a prison guard who gives a brief lecture on values to the title character, who is played by Johnny Depp. [2004, on selection parts] I'm always looking for an adventure-I try not to work just to work. [147] In 2014, Dafoe portrayed a wealthy private banker with connections to the Russia mafia opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman in Anton Corbijn's espionage thriller A Most Wanted Man. ago 32 Facts About The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou https://everythingwhat.com/goto/138917 Maybe is the one on 18' 1 He recently completed work on Marina Abramovic's opera 7 Deaths of Maria Callas. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns, there's lots of reasons. In 1977, Dafoe began a relationship with director Elizabeth LeCompte. As of 2014, has appeared in six films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 67th Cannes International Film Festival in 2014. Frequently portrays psychotic villains or wounded mentors. Company Credits who did willem dafoe replace in life aquaticcollege with most super bowl quarterbacks. The Hollywood Reporter thought that Dafoe appeared to think he was "in a pantomime",[102] while a New York Times reviewer felt he was "amusing" in the role. William James Dafoe[2] was born on July 22, 1955, in Appleton, Wisconsin. [30][31] His second release of 1988 was Martin Scorsese's epic drama The Last Temptation of Christ, in which Dafoe portrayed Jesus. You can use that and that can be interesting iconographical but I still am that actor who likes to bend myself to the material rather than find material to support some idea of who I am or some persona that I've made, or some mask that I've made. 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