Steve Zissou [139] Later in 2012, Dafoe co-starred in the low-budget crime thriller Tomorrow You're Gone with Stephen Dorff and Michelle Monaghan. He created and performed in all of the group's work from 1977 thru 2005, both in the U.S. and internationally. How Death Note And Willem Dafoe Brought Ryuk To Life. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. Ja? By Sean O'Connell. Klaus Daimler To pass judgment on something you've done is a face-saving act, and I think it kinda stinks. [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. I never act. [108] Dafoe starred with Ryan Reynolds, Julia Roberts, and Emily Watson in the drama Fireflies in the Garden, which premiered at Berlinale in 2008 but was not released theatrically until 2011. Well, you traveled a long way for "I don't know," sonny. Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. Steve Zissou He's right-hand man to Bill. I'm always very fond of laconic, cut-off characters that have a rich inner life, and you have to restrain that. - On his favorite roles. [97] His fourth and final film appearance of 2005 was the crime thriller Ripley Under Ground, in which he played a museum curator. | The English Patient was filmed in Tuscany, where Dafoe said he particularly enjoyed the "quiet moments in the monastery between shoots". : : it's very clear that a lot of people that have really strong instincts as actors are very often inarticulateSometimes, you know, classically, if someone's very intellectual, they aren't as connected to the doing of things. 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. But it's important to me. [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. I don't want to do that - I'm not that kind of actor. Willem Dafoe is easily one of the best actors of his generation, deftly playing complex, dark, intense characters with humanity and aplomb. [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. [41] Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman felt the role proved Dafoe as a "master of leering, fish-faced villainy". | [101], In 2007, Dafoe played a pretentious film director in the British comedy film Mr. Bean's Holiday, starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. ", Dafoe on his avoidance of being typecast as a villain, 1998[53], In his first of three film appearances in 1996, Dafoe made a cameo appearance as an electrician in the biographical drama Basquiat. : [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. Klaus Daimler He made his film debut in Heaven's Gate (1980), but was fired during production. [113], Dafoe appeared in seven films in 2009, the first of which was in Lars von Trier's experimental film Antichrist. "[175] Dafoe portrayed sled dog breeder, trainer, and musher Leonhard Seppala in Togo. [34] As with The Last Temptation of Christ, the film was the subject of controversy, this time among African-American activists who criticized its fictionalization of events. Is *that* understood? Named one of "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century" by the New York Times (November 25, 2020). Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? [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. [142] The game polarized reviewers, although Dafoe and Page's performance were widely praised. : [160] He next played the boss of Gerard Butler's character in the drama A Family Man and starred in Loris Graud's arthouse science fiction film Sculpt, which was only screened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for one person at a time. [170][171] He later played Nuidis Vulko in a leading role in James Wan's 2018 film Aquaman. In 2020, The New York Times ranked him No. [140], In 2013, 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. [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". Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Klaus Daimler [72] Dafoe received numerous awards and nominations for his performance, including his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. My take was that it should be played with and invented. Klaus Daimler [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. published July 18, 2017. That was over 17 years ago in 2004. Is that a comfort? [15] Dafoe would continue with the Wooster Group into the 2000s. Dafoe portrayed John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert who develops a strange friendship with the actor Bob Crane, leading Crane into a downward spiral. His character was described as a "diminutive version of Dick Cheney, with wire-rimmed glasses and a fringe of white hair" by The Times writer Caryn James. 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. Steve Zissou Although the film was largely dismissed by critics,[63] critic David Stratton found there to be "compensation" in the performances. He and his wife, director Giada Colagrande, have made three films together: Padre, A Woman, and Before It Had A Name.His natural adventurousness is evident in roles as diverse as Marcus, the elite assassin who is mentor to Keanu Reeves in the neo-noir John Wick; in his voice work as Gil the Moorish Idol in Finding Nemo and Ryuk the Death God in Death Note; as Paul Smecker, the obsessed FBI agent in the cult classic The Boondock Saints; and as real life hero Leonhard Seppala, who led the 1925 Alaskan dog sled diphtheria serum run in Ericson Core's Togo. [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]. Dafoe said in 2010, "We were having lunch and I said: 'Do you want to get married tomorrow?'" 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. That's one way to have a career. [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. Please don't let any one make fun of me for saying so. [66][67] The film performed poorly at the box office, but has since been branded as being a cult film. In 2009 Dafoe starred in von Triers controversial Antichrist, which centres on a couple who struggle to cope with the death of a child. Steve Zissou Fresh Air critic David Edelstein felt Dafoe was one of the film's highlights as a "hep-cat, knife-wielding rat security guard". : Steve Zissou : [149] Dafoe next starred alongside Matt Dillon as a detective in the crime thriller Bad Country, which critic Justin Chang dismissed as being "blandly constructed". Steve Zissou I'll take Ned, Ogata, and Wolodarsky. Cross the line if you're going to quit. Klaus Daimler Can we get on with the maneuvers now? Dafoe played John Clark, a CIA agent conducting a covert operation against a drug cartel in Colombia with Jack Ryan. 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. 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. I hear what you're saying, but I think you misjudge the guy. 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He co founded The Wooster Group in Manhattan. Check the scanning monitor before it dives too deep! In 1977, Dafoe began a relationship with director Elizabeth LeCompte. [84] The murder mystery The Reckoning was Dafoe's final film of 2003, in which he starred with Paul Bettany. [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. - On his acting style. who did willem dafoe replace in life aquaticcollege with most super bowl quarterbacks. [133][134][135] Dafoe starred alongside Marina Abramovi and Gretchen Mol in the play The Life and Death of Marina Abramovi, which premiered at The Lowry in 2011. [73], Dafoe took on two leading roles in 2001, both of which were as priests. [122] Dafoe reprised his role from The Boondock Saints in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, making a brief cameo appearance. It is beautiful Steve. Among his other nominations and awards, he has received two Los Angeles Film Critics Awards, a New York Film Critics Circle Award, a National Board of Review Award, two Independent Spirit Awards, Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup, as well as a Berlinale Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement.Willem was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, to Muriel Isabel (Sprissler), a nurse, and William Alfred Dafoe, a surgeon. The film delves into fiction when, over the course of Nosferatu's production, the cast and crew come to discover that Schreck is actually a vampire himself. [on whether good actors help other actors]: "You're always looking for good people to work with, because you feed each other. [22] Dafoe starred alongside Judge Reinhold in Roadhouse 66 (1985) as a pair of yuppies who become stranded in a town on U.S. Route 66. [37] It was filmed on location at Auschwitz, the first major film to do so. : I shot it dorsally with a homing dart! I don't understand. 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