No, if there's one thing that unifies Dafoe's output it's that he's worked with many of modern cinema's greatest nutbags and polarising personalities, including Lars von Trier, Abel Ferrara, Oliver Stone and David Lynch.
It's like I'm married and I have a mistress and they don't know about each other, so I get the best of both worlds." He adds, laughing: "In theory." The actor's catholic choices make stereotypes moot, particularly the notion that he specialises in bad guys – a suggestion that "really tells me more about taste in movies". "It's fun because one world doesn't know about the other. "I'm always seeking out commercial films to balance out my great love for smaller art films, because that creates a career health," he says. He professes disinterest in his career beyond seeking balance. With Laura Dern in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart.ĭafoe smiles. Now he's jumping into DC's Justice League. Dafoe was in early and memorably, playing a maniacal Green Goblin in the first Spider-Man series of this century, 2002's Sam Raimi-directed iteration. In a Hollywood now dominated by Marvel and DC Comics films, featuring in more than one superhero universe is not really done, even if the omnipresence of such films makes their slings, arrows and pay cheques increasingly alluring. That's an eclectic line-up by any standards, but Dafoe is also thumbing his nose at comic book convention.
All before he plays Vincent Van Gogh for Julian Schnabel. There's also the sci-fi film What Happened to Monday?, Netflix horror movie Death Note and a turn as superhero good guy Nuidis Vulko in Justice League, a character who returns next year in Aquaman. He's an early tip for a third Oscar nomination for the recent Cannes Film Festival favourite The Florida Project, and he'll be seen in Kenneth Branagh's all-star take on Murder on the Orient Express. A handful of Dafoe's movie performances will screen during the second half of the year, including Mountain, which tours as an ACO national concert series in August before its September 21 cinema release. He's been busy recently, to say the least. The son of evangelical Christians and a devout yoga practitioner, in person Dafoe appears calm, open and seemingly content, with an agile mind. He's smaller than anticipated, as most actors are, with a face that, while initially typecast for venom, can portray the highest mirth or melancholy, and is softer in person than on screen. That said, Dafoe is not the ball of unbridled energy he so often portrays. More often than not, he's the best guy if a director is after someone willing to push it to the edge.
Dafoe appeared as Jesus in Martin Scorcese’s controversial The Last Temptation of Christ.
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