Willem Dafoe: 'With success comes certain things that corrupt you'

by Amy Nicholson

 

Willem Dafoe: ‘I like perfection, I appreciate that. But I’m much better trying to find something, than I am knowing something and executing and explaining it.’ Photograph: Marion Curtis/StarPix for CBS Films/REX/Shutterstock

 

You can’t confuse Willem Dafoe with another actor. That red hair, those fierce eyes, the gaunt cheekbones that make him look hungry for the next intense role – whether it’s Jesus, the Green Goblin, or a motel manager in The Florida Project, the part that just scored him his third Oscar nomination.

 

Even in a fine art museum, his face is still unique.

 

“I think maybe there’s some figures in a Bruegel painting or something that I thought, ‘Oh, that’s an ancestor of mine,’” Dafoe says.

 

But in his new biopic, At Eternity’s Gate – the film that might get Dafoe his fourth Oscar nomination – artist turned director Julian Schnabel sticks a paintbrush in Dafoe’s hand and plasters a bandage over his ear and suddenly, he’s the spitting image of Vincent Van Gogh.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/19/willem-dafoe-at-eternitys-gate-vincent-van-gogh

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I bet this awful joke, one of my all-time favourites, would wipe the grin of Dafoe's face. It works better when spoken rather than written down,

 

Would you like a gin and tonic, Mr Van Gogh.

 

No, thanks, I've got one 'ere.

 

Sorry!!