Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has two films due out in the near future: ‘Poor Things’, a Victorian tale inspired by ‘Frankenstein’ in which Emma Stone is subjected to a scientific experiment by an eccentric scientist played by Willem Dafoe, and ‘E’, about which not much is known yet, but which surprisingly also stars this pair of actors. It is precisely in ‘E’, whose filming has already finished, that the New York Times collects a curious anecdote.
In the film, Stone’s character has to slap Dafoe’s character, who is not in the shot. Because of this, the normal thing would be that the actor wasn’t there to perform the scene and the actress simulated the movement. However, since we are talking about none other than Willem Dafoe, the actor not only wanted to be on the set of filming but also he insisted that the actress really slap him to make the movement more realand in the end the take was repeated twenty times.
“That’s what you want from actors”says Lantimos. “Who wants to be part of it [la película]in any case”. The actor’s gesture is not entirely surprising given Dafoe’s theatrical origins, which we have already seen extorting his body and transforming in front of the camera in films such as ‘The Lighthouse’, and which we will soon see also in ‘Inside’, films whose weight falls entirely on his portrayal of an art thief who becomes trapped in a luxurious apartment and must survive months in solitary confinement without starving.
always at risk
The actor has reached the point in his career where he can choose any project he wants. And what does it mean when you’re Willem Dafoe? Choose even more risky projects. His criteria include accepting projects based solely on his instincts, without objecting to working with emerging directors if they make a good impression on him. An example of this is the aforementioned ‘Inside’, which is the film debut of the Greek Vasilis Katsoupis. “When you start out, it feels like every movie can ruin youDafoe says. “Now I can take more risks”.
Source: E Cartelera
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