I guess maybe I am. [164] Dafoe earned his third Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination, as well as nominations at the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and BAFTA Awards. The Attackers were the real-life (Face to Face) bandmates of Sargent, who provided the lead vocals on Ellen's songs "Nowhere Fast", "Never Be You" and "Sorcerer", and supporting vocals on "Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young". Shooting wrapped on August 18, 1983. He is the recipient of various . The Spider-Man: No Way Home star recently spoke about his willingness to return once again as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin . [167] Also that year, he co-starred as Gerhard Hardman in a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's detective novel Murder on the Orient Express, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh;[168] and played Atlantean scientist Nuidis Vulko in a deleted role in Zack Snyder's Justice League.
Spider-Man's Willem Dafoe Is Open To Returning To Marvel Movies - Game Rant Because I wanted to be on that stage singing with those guysBut back then I always played those quirky characters.
Willem Dafoe: The Essential Films & Performances I didn't get those fancy leads. [94], With the avant-garde drama Manderlay in 2005, Dafoe began another actor-director collaboration, this time with Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. Reply . Tom Cody : I think you're forgettin' somethin'. [126][127] and starred in his wife Giada Colagrande's film A Woman. This cult favorite features a razor-sharp cast and original songs written by Jim Steinman, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and Ry Cooder and performed by The Blasters and The Fixx. [3], According to cinematographer Andrew Laszlo, the film's style was dictated by the story. He was portrayed by Willem Dafoe, who also played Eric Masters in To Live and Die in L.A., Bobby Peru in Wild at Heart, John Geiger in Speed 2: Cruise Control, Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire, the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and Spider-Man: No Way Home, Armando Barillo in Once Upon a . As the biker gang leader Raven Shaddock in STREETS OF FIRE, costume designer Marilyn Vance put him in black patent leather fisherman's waders. . We had a very conscious design concept of the movie, but I think we didn't fully grasp how strong it would be, in terms of the combination of elements. stunt double Willem Dafoe (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited) Allan Graf . [23] Film critic Roger Ebert commended his "strong" performance in the film. And I felt, as I watched the post-production process going on, I just saw the film getting better and better. Dafoe played a cold, domineering English professor who has a strained relationship with his family. [159] 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. Dafoe played a criminal who engages in a robbery with Cage's character before demonstrating his dark side. The Richlands. We were in the universe of the teenage movie. "Joel got off the phone with Universal and said, 'We're dead.' We went further with that, perhaps, than we should have. [11], When it came to casting the movie, Hill wanted to go with a young group of relative unknowns. It's really bad. Se7en's taking place in another world. [15], Par said that the original draft of the script had Tom Cody kill Raven with a knife. You can't do that on a movie set. More impressive. It's a very real-world film, in some respects, but it's very artificial at the same time We did that again, but we put the emphasis on the artifice. He played an underground fight promoter in Out of the Furnace (2013), the menacing employer of the sex-addicted main character in Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2013) and Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2013), a German banker in A Most Wanted Man (2014), a henchman in Andersons The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and an assassin in John Wick (2014). [155] Dafoe made his second guest appearance in the animated sitcom The Simpsons in November 2014, voicing a new school teacher who bullies Bart Simpson profusely. He has five sisters and a brother. Billy tries to get rid of the corrupt police officers by bribing them, but Tom and McCoy have to resort to holding the police at gunpoint and shooting up their vehicles. [197], On May 22, 2022, Dafoe was invited back to his alma mater the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee by Chancellor Mark Mone to serve as the keynote speaker for the university's commencement ceremony and to receive an honorary Doctor of Arts degree. [191] They split their time between Rome, Los Angeles, and New York City. [47] Later in 1993, Dafoe appeared in a supporting role as Emit Flesti (an anagram of Time Itself) in the German fantasy film Faraway, So Close!, directed by Wim Wenders. You just frame them, give them circumstances, and that character will happen.
Willem Dafoe - Wikipedia [3] Originally, plans were made for the song to be featured on the film's soundtrack, to be sung by Ellen Aim at the end of the film, but when Springsteen was told that the song would be re-recorded by other vocalists, he withdrew permission for the song to be used. [74], Dafoe played the supervillain the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's 2002 superhero film Spider-Man, starring Tobey Maguire as the titular Marvel Comics superhero. Teenage reality. He played the "hilariously doltish" German first mate of a research vessel owned by the eponymous lead character, who is played by Bill Murray. Tom and Raven duel using sledgehammers and their fists, with Tom ultimately being victorious. [5] At the time he was cast in March 1983, Par had appeared in two films, Eddie and the Cruisers and Undercover, which had not yet been released. The defeated gang carries their leader away. So it was left behind. [122] His final appearance of the year was in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, another film centring around vampires in which Dafoe played the foppish vampire Gavner Purl. The concept for Streets of Fire came together during the making of 48 Hrs., and reunited director Walter Hill with producers Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver, and screenwriter Larry Gross, all of whom worked together on that production. [36][37] Dafoe reunited with Platoon director Oliver Stone for a small appearance in the biographical war drama Born on the Fourth of July (1989). "[4], They submitted the script to Universal executive Bob Rehme on a Friday (in January 1983) and by the end of the weekend, the studio had given them the go-ahead to make the film. He played an actor spending his last hours on Earth before the end of the world with his much-younger lover (played by Shanyn Leigh). Other Oscar-nominated films include Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Florida Project (2017), and At Eternity's Gate (2018). [58] For his next film, Affliction (1997), Dafoe worked with Paul Schrader for a second time, playing the brother of Nick Nolte's character and served as the film's narrator. [186][187] Amelia Emberwing of IGN praised the performances of Dafoe, Molina, and Foxx in No Way Home,[188] while Vulture's Bilge Ebiri said Dafoe "once again gets to have some modest fun with his character's divided self".[189]. It's funny. (67 years old) Place of Birth . 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Peter Keough of Boston Globe said Dafoe "may be the best actor around for expressing an inner life in extremis."[171]. [16], Dafoe made his film debut in a supporting role in Michael Cimino's 1980 epic Western film Heaven's Gate. In 2021 he was featured in another Anderson film, The French Dispatch, playing a crooked accountant. [144] Also in 2013, Dafoe played the devil in a Mercedes-Benz Super Bowl commercial[145] and starred in three short student films as part of a competition sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey. Dafoe, the son of a surgeon and a nurse, was one of seven children. The revered filmmaker and accomplished actor . [19], The Blasters, who turned down the chance to appear in Hill's 48 Hours, appear in the film performing two songs. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). "Don't ask me how to act! [93] It was largely panned by critics, although Dafoe stated he did not regret appearing in the film. Corrections? [190] The psychological horror film Inside had its world premiere at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival, and was released in the United States in March by Focus Features. Screenwriter Larry Gross said the film has been influential: Whatever is good, bad or indifferent about Streets of Fire, it had a huge impact on other filmmakers. "[29], Streets of Fire was intended to be the first in a projected trilogy titled The Adventures of Tom Cody, with Hill's tentatively titling the two sequels The Far City and Cody's Return. Through the 80's his prominence rose in films like Streets of Fire and To Live and Die in L.A. Perhaps one of Dafoe's, nay cinema's, most iconic moments (and the subject of countless . Gross says they wanted Tom Cruise and made him an offer, but he had already accepted another role. [160][161] His final film of the year was the monster film The Great Wall, a Chinese-American co-production directed by Zhang Yimou starring Matt Damon as a European mercenary in China defending the Great Wall of China from a horde of monsters, in which Dafoe played a former adventurer working as a teacher in China. Ellen performs on stage, while Tom rides off with McCoy. [40] Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman felt the role proved Dafoe as a "master of leering, fish-faced villainy". [19] Dafoe did not receive a credit for his work on the film. [5] An additional district, Ardmore, also appears in the film, but it may be a separate municipality as it is not prefaced with "the". They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Dafoe flourished as an actor in such big-budget mainstream films as Spider-Man (2002) and three of its sequels (2004, 2007, and 2021), in which he played the comic villain the Green Goblin; the animated Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel, Finding Dory (2016), for which he provided the voice of a fish; and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Wes Andersons comedy about an idiosyncratic marine documentary crew. We don't get that. Dafoe played the Norman Osborn incarnation of the Green Goblin, the billionaire founder and owner of the corporation Oscorp, becoming the Green Goblin after testing an unstable strength enhancer on himself, turning him insane and making him extremely powerful. stunts (uncredited) Terry Leonard . [10] His surname, Dafoe, is the English version of the Swiss surname Thvou. [84] Dafoe lent his voice and likeness to the James Bond video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2004) as the villain Nikolai Diavolo. Film critic Peter Bradshaw noted the physical similarities between Dafoe and Pasolini, although felt Dafoe had too little screen time in the film. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment . William Dafoe in Streets of Fire (1984) This thread is archived . "[4], Production began on location in Chicago in April 1983, then moved to Los Angeles for 45 days, and finally two weeks at a soap factory in Wilmington, California, with additional filming taking place at Universal Studios. The production employed 500 extras to play the citizens of the Richmond District. Dafoe voiced Gill, a moorish idol fish who helps Nemo, a clownfish, in his struggle to return home to the ocean. Dafoes credits from 2019 included The Lighthouse, about two lighthouse keepers in the 1890s; Motherless Brooklyn, a crime drama adapted from the novel by Jonathan Lethem; and Togo, a Disney drama about the Great Race of Mercy, in which dog-sled teams were used to distribute medicine during a diphtheria epidemic in Alaska in 1925.
Streets of Fire (1984) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb I was told by Joel Silver that the sequel was going to be set in the snow, and the following film would be set in the desert. In Richmond, a city district in a time period that resembles the 1950s (labelled "another time, another place"), Ellen Aim, lead singer of Ellen Aim and the Attackers, has returned home for a concert. After studying at 'Appleton East High School,' he enrolled at the 'University of Wisconsin' in Milwaukee to study drama when he was 17. married to Giada Colagrande (2005present), This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willem-Dafoe, Turner Classic Movies - Biography of Willem Dafoe. It is described in the opening credits and posters as "A Rock & Roll Fable"[2] and is a mix of various movie genres with elements of retro-1950s woven into then-current 1980s themes. We felt that we had compensated adequately in making a fun, exciting, stylized world. He's like John Ford. [172] In the same year, he played a lighthouse keeper on a storm-swept island in Robert Eggers' psychological horror The Lighthouse opposite Robert Pattinson. [12] Dafoe soon joined the new company and is credited as one of its co-founders. Steinman later recalled thinking the script was 'terrible', but he thought the film was going to be a big hit, in part because of the enthusiasm of Joel Silver: [He said] this movie is about visuals. The English Patient was filmed in Tuscany, where Dafoe said he particularly enjoyed the "quiet moments in the monastery between shoots". What happened was that after we screened that cut for Paramount, Larry looked at Walter and said, "Paramount is pregnant; let's get something and set it up right away." [5], Willem Dafoe was recommended by Kathryn Bigelow, who had just made a film with him. I had never done a love scene beforeI really needed help to get through it. Remember: You had John Hughes at the time, and then you had Coppola making two high school movies: The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. Dafoe's co-star John Malkovich portrayed the film's director, F. W. Murnau. [3] However, this presented unusual problems. Dafoe was critically lauded for his performances in a number of controversial films released in the late 1980s. [158] In the same year, Dafoe reprised his voice role as Gill, a Moorish idol fish, from Finding Nemo in its sequel Finding Dory. [99] He starred with Juliette Binoche in a short film directed by Nobuhiro Suwa as part of the 2006 anthology film Paris, je t'aime. His director's chair was made out of leather and on the back of it read "Lone Wolf". "[9] His brother, Donald, is a surgeon and research scientist. The group, along with the Sorels, ditch the bus and take a train back to the Richmond. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast . Bigelow was dating David Giler, a collaborator and friend of Hill at the time. Later that year he provided the voice of a rat in Fantastic Mr. Fox, Andersons animated film adaptation of Roald Dahls childrens book, and he appeared as a vampire hunter in the horror movie Daybreakers (2009). But he was one of Joel's dear friends, and he ended up making a bunch of movies for Disney. He said, Jimmy Iovine. [129], Dafoe's first of two leading roles in 2011 was in Abel Ferrara's apocalyptic drama 4:44 Last Day on Earth, his third film with Ferrara.