Frequently portrays psychotic villains or wounded mentors. Both are often in relentless pursuit of their goals. His first name, William, is shared with his father. He did not want to be called William Jr. Says he feels like he has missed out on more conventional roles because he's perceived as an eccentric actor in dark little films, kind of the boy-next-door type - if you lived next door to a mausoleum.
He did practically most of his own stunts on the glider in Spider-Man So when you see the Green Goblin moving around on it, when it's not CG, then it's Willem pretty much the whole time.
He was delirious for 24 hours after coming down with yellow fever on the set of Platoon Quite possibly has the most on-screen deaths of any mainstream actor. The only actor to ever be nominated for an Oscar for playing a vampire, for his role as Max Schrek in Shadow of the Vampire Dafoe and Malkovich starred in Shadow of the Vampire together, while Cage produced the film. Dafoe ended up getting the Spider-Man role.
While doing a blocking run-through on Wild at Heart for the scene in which Dafoe's character threatens to rape Laura Dern 's character , Dafoe playfully sang his lines. Director David Lynch loved this, and wanted Dafoe to actually sing his lines in the scene, when they shot it.
However, the idea did not actually go through. Is the second youngest of eight siblings. Brother, Donald Dafoe, is an accomplished transplant surgeon.
Was listed as a potential nominee on the Razzie Award nominating ballot. He was listed as a suggestion in the Worst Supporting Actor category for his performance in the film xXx: State of the Union However, he failed to receive a nomination Had he gotten the nomination, it would have been his third overall. He was a candidate for the role of the Joker in Batman , which went to Jack Nicholson. Was involved for decades from with theater director and actress Elizabeth LeCompte , who was also a member and director of the Wooster Group.
Provided his voice on Lou Reed 's album "The Raven" On it, he performs a rewritten and reworked, spoken-word version of Edgar Allan Poe 's poetry. Many of his antecedents resided in Canada. Of those, Platoon and The English Patient are winners in the category. He sticks to an all-organic, vegan diet except for the rare occasion when he indulges in a fried lake perch sandwich.
Childhood celebrity crush was sex symbol Raquel Welch. The longest he has gone without an Academy Award nomination is the 17 years between Shadow of the Vampire and The Florida Project I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy, besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work. Casting people feel that they have to get someone who looks a certain way, and I think that the jury is still out whether people find me attractive or not.
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying? The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.
I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
Sometimes, you know, classically, if someone's very intellectual, they aren't as connected to the doing of things. And the doing is really the key to finding the emotionality and the spirit of things. That's all. When it starts out in the beginning, I think it's purely a social thing.
The thing you get reinforcement for, it's a way of acting out. It's a way of getting attention. It's a way of just fitting in socially. And then, as I get older, it transforms into something else. I'm an optimist. 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. When something doesn't do better than it deserves to in your mind, it's pretty transparent, you usually know why.
Is that a comfort? Yes, because it's logical. Dead for A Dollar post-production Joe Cribbens. Inside post-production. Zylander Quark. Lassen voice. The Commandant voice. Narrator voice. Fox Rat voice. Bean's Holiday Carson Clay. Michael Copeland. Van Horn. Emit Flesti. Virgil Cole. Jeffrey Hunt. Eric Masters. Hide Show Producer 3 credits. Hide Show Writer 1 credit. Hide Show Soundtrack 4 credits. Hide Show Thanks 12 credits. Hide Show Self credits.
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Dafoe played a cold, domineering English professor who has a strained relationship with his family. The film received mostly negative reviews, although the performances were generally praised. The critic Peter Brunette felt the cast's performances, especially Dafoe's, were unconvincing.
Dafoe appeared in seven films in , the first of which was in Lars von Trier's experimental film Antichrist. Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg played a couple whose relationship becomes increasingly sexually violent and sadomasochistic after retreating to a cabin in the woods following the death of their child.
The film received a polarized response from critics and audiences, [ ] receiving both applause and boos at the Cannes Film Festival and was called the "most shocking movie" to be shown at the festival because of its graphic sex scenes.
Richard Corliss of Time magazine wrote that Dafoe "triumphs over some awful dialogue by giving the role his nutsy-greatsy weirdness". Fox starring George Clooney as the titular Roald Dahl character. Fresh Air critic David Edelstein felt Dafoe was one the film's highlights as a "hep-cat, knife-wielding rat security guard". Dafoe appeared in two films that premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in , [ ] making a brief appearance in Julian Schnabel 's political thriller Miral , which some reviewers found to be distracting.
He played an actor spending his last hours on Earth before the end of the world with his much-younger lover played Shanyn Leigh. 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".
Critic Stephen Holden wrote in his review of the film, "Even in the "toughest, most macho roles Dafoe at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival in In , Dafoe played a police officer in the supernatural thriller Odd Thomas , starring Anton Yelchin as the titular character that possesses supernatural powers to see the dead.
In the film, Dafoe played a perverse businessman who hires Charlotte Gainsbourg's character to work as a debt collector using sex and sadomasochism. Film critic Peter Bradshaw noted the physical similarities between Dafoe and Pasolini, although felt Dafoe had too little screen time in the film. In , Dafoe co-starred in Sean Baker 's drama The Florida Project as the manager of a motel in Kissimmee, Florida who houses a rebellious mother and her six-year-old daughter.
The film and his performance received enormous critical acclaim, with The Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday writing that "Dafoe delivers his finest performance in recent memory, bringing to levelheaded, unsanctimonious life a character who offers a glimmer of hope and caring within a world markedly short on both".
Dafoe met director Elizabeth LeCompte at The Performance Group , and the two began a professional and personal relationship there and at its successor company, The Wooster Group. Their son, Jack, was born in Dafoe said in , "We were having lunch and I said: 'Do you want to get married tomorrow? Dafoe is a vegetarian and avoids eating meat "because animal farms are one of the main causes of the destruction of the planet". Sony Pictures Entertaiment Wiki Explore.
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