

Because I think naturalism is… you get distracted by a certain kind of charm and a certain kind of recognizable personality. I think also people aren’t quite down with artifice, and for me, I’m fine with it.

So when all that stuff is done for you, I don’t know, I just think that’s closer to performing than anything else. The real beauty is in inhabiting and being there. This, this is the easy stuff, this is the grunt work. I mean everyone’s different, but you always hear that people think that improvisation is the absolute, biggest treat an actor can have. Dafoe, it turns out, is short: we're guessing he'd be five-five in heels.I feel terrific freedom, because I feel freedom in structure. We had the opportunity to meet Dafoe briefly earlier this year when he came to the Brattle Theater. Why the confusion? Perhaps this: very small man, very big dick. No, too big because everybody got very confused when they saw it. We had a stand-in for him because we had to take the scenes But you can say in the film that it’s changed reality.Īs for Dafoe, I wouldn’t let him treat her in any other way than with One of the main ideasīehind the treatment is that a fear is a thought, and a thought doesn’tĬhange reality.

Years, and I tend to get sarcastic about it. Willem Dafoe - and I think you've mentioned this before - plays probably the worst therapist in the history of movies.įirst of all, I have been undergoing this cognitive therapy for three And not, as in the case of Marky Wahlberg in Boogie Nights, because his member was insufficient for the part, but for the opposite reason: Dafoe's dick is just way too fucking huge: We suspect some of you may have missed the salient segment of Peter Keough's interview with Antichrist director Lars Von Trier this week, in which he revealed that Willem Dafoe required a stunt-cock for the film.
