There were moments where it felt like that.”ĭo outside elements impacting these shoots wind up making these projects feel more real? “Real is a funny word, because I've done things that are very artificial, that I really enjoy. But seeing it actually happen two feet away from you? I once shot a project with two wolves in a tiny New York apartment. “He had already created the character with Sam, so I knew the crazy places he was willing to go.
But if you have a good rapport with that person, and they put you in a situation that pushes you, you're going to learn something.” “And that frees you from a kind of delusion and a certain kind of self-centred view. This involves eschewing ego and giving himself over to their vision to become “an animal in the landscape.” “I like the fact that someone needs you to do something for them,” he says. He says that he likes to “become a creature” for the directors he works with. There are certain things that you can’t imitate, you know, the redness of the skin, when you're out in brutal weather, the way you feel towards a warm stove when you're freezing all day.” “It wasn’t pleasant, but it was enjoyable. When he was filming The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers’ psycho-comedy-drama about two stranded lighthouse keepers, he enjoyed the grim shoot during an actual storm in arse-end-of-nowhere Nova Scotia. It’s typically about the tactility of a fight scene, or a closeness to the process and to the material. When Dafoe talks about his acting process, he uses the word “contact” a lot. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. “It's been rough because in order to make these movies, I've been in quarantine a lot, alone a lot. He says that the pandemic has been a difficult time because he’s been working pretty much non-stop, and Covid restrictions, quarantines and closed sets have meant that he hasn’t been with his family as much as he’d have liked. “I’m always preparing something, I’m always studying for things.” As it stands, he’s got five projects in the works, due to be released in the next two years. He seems to be joking, but then he doesn’t really answer the question. “Work is my hobby,” he says, followed by a slow, gravelly chuckle. So you don’t spill some of your creative juice.” Throughout the conversation, he offers ruminations such as this which hint at the degree to which creativity-and his work-defines how he lives his life. I thought, yeah, maybe that’s the way to go.
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“When I was young, I heard about Ingmar Bergman having a closet full of black turtleneck sweaters. He sometimes fantasizes about having a uniform-a Bart Simpson wardrobe, if you will.
So they took off their clothes, I put them on and those were the clothes for the shoot.” “The clothes were so terrible, I said ‘I can’t do any of this.’” He looked around the room and saw a collection of people-the stylist, the photographer, the makeup artist-each with their own very distinct personal style, “and I said, let me wear all of your clothes. “It's kind of what happens in approaching a character except it's condensed, it's very immediate.” He talks about a shoot for a different magazine which went awry. “My go-to people have always been Prada, because there's something classic and I just like how I feel in them and they're beautifully made.” He sees getting styled in designer clothes for photoshoots as just another form of acting. And physically, he was incredible.”ĭafoe wouldn’t necessarily say he’s “into” fashion, but he certainly knows what he likes. “I admire greatly his discipline and his commitment to the role. “It was a continuation of what I had done a long time ago, and I liked the people, they’re real believers in what they’re doing.” He reserves special praise for Spider-Man 3.0 Tom Holland. Dafoe has been widely praised as the film’s MVP for putting in the kind of barnstorming performance he’s become known for over the past 40 years. A month and change on from its release, it is now officially the eighth highest-grossing film of all time – in a pandemic, no less. In the latest offering from the Marvel machine, Dafoe resurrects his role of the Green Goblin from 2002’s Spider-Man alongside a bunch of other ghosts of Spider-Mans past. And then there was Spider-Man: No Way Home. In 2021 alone, he appeared in new films from Wes Anderson, Zack Snyder and Paul Schrader. That video’s popularity is indicative of something that anyone who has come within spitting distance of a cinema in the past 12 months already knows: it is Willem Dafoe drip season.
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