Willem Dafoe

Walter Hill once said that he considers all of his films to be westerns, even modern-day thrillers such as Red Heat or Bullet to the Head. “If you look closely, you can see western touches, such as revolvers, Winchester rifles and cowboy hats,” he said.

Willem Dafoe spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1988 about playing Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ directed by Martin Scorsese from the 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. “It seems like the most logical thing to do would be to read the source material, but I didn’t, which is interesting, because I didn't want to burden myself with any expectations or be influenced by any images, so you try to free yourself from them as much as possible.

American actor Willem Dafoe received the Wind of Europe Award at the Ventotene Film Festival on July 25, 2020. Ventotene is a small Mediterranean island known for its ancient Roman harbor.

Golden Globe-nominated Willem Dafoe is currently on screen portraying two very different characters. In Motherless Brooklyn he plays Paul Randolph, a mysterious man who wants to bring down a powerful developer.

Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - DramaWillem Dafoe portrays Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate by Globe-winning director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 2008). The tormented Dutch painter has most famously been played on screen by Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life.

Roma, Alfonso Cuarón’s valentine to his childhood in Mexico City won the Golden Lion at the 75th Venice Film Festival. Accepting the award, Cuarón said that the win was  “incredibly meaningful” to him, and noted that the festival’s closure took place on the birthday of the woman who inspired the film.

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