Willem Dafoe has made more than 150 movies, but in a forced break from filming he leaned into a new role.
He talks about art, his new film Poor Things – and gentleman farmingWillem Dafoe is in his apartment in New York, where he is watched over by two works of art.
Behind him is an oil painting of his father, a prop created for a film, which required “dynastic portraits” of his relatives.
“I liked my father fine, so, there he is.” We are talking on Zoom and he spins the camera round.
“But look, even better! Here’s the counterpoint.
Do you see that?” To the side of him is a large, lightbox photograph of his friend and occasional collaborator, the artist Marina Abramović, standing priest-like over a naked body adorned with organs.
“Anyway, you get the idea,” he says.Dafoe is less the kind of actor who wants…
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