[24] He enjoyed the opportunity to play a heroic role and said the film gave him a chance to display his versatility, saying "I think all characters live in you. [5], According to Gross, Hill wanted to make a film about the hero of the comic book, but since he did not like "any of the comic books" he had read he wanted it to be an original character. [73] He then starred opposite Haley Joel Osment in Edges of the Lord, playing a compassionate priest helping a young Jewish boy pose as a Catholic to protect him during Nazi Germany's occupation of Poland. The film received mostly negative reviews, although the performances were generally praised. [3] Par estimated it as four weeks: Willem and I shot that for two weeks, and then Walter shot it for another two week with the stunt guys. (Laughs)[15]. 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. Actor Age Check - How old was Willem Dafoe in Streets of Fire? Streets of Fire (1984) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Later, at a concert, the Sorels open for Ellen and her band. [182][183] Also, like Alfred Molina (who reprised his role as Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus in the film), Dafoe was digitally de-aged for the character's 2002 self. [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. 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. Gross says that Jeff Berg (Walter's agent), Larry Gordon and Michael Eisner, head of production at Paramount, "got into some kind of a fight when the script was finished. His performance drew raves from film critics. [191] They have since worked together on her films Before It Had a Name and A Woman. [26] Los Angeles Times writer Sheila Benson praised his performance and found it to be "particularly fine" to see Dafoe play "something other than a psychopath". [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. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large and small, Hollywood films as well as Independent cinema. Remember: You had John Hughes at the time, and then you had Coppola making two high school movies: The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. [196] He practices ashtanga vinyasa yoga every day. [6], During 48 Hours Gross said he thought that Hill had received "a bum rap on the woman question" over the years. This was the fastest ever greenlight Hill had received and he put it down to the box office success of 48 Hours. We sat down, I remember, in a little park. [5], Production designer John Vallone and his team constructed an elevated train line on the backlot of Universal Studios that perfectly matched the ones in Chicago. Always night, just about. "Were in the world of Cocteau, were in the world of Beauty and the Beast. I just wasn't that sharp. ", "Light Sleeper Movie Review & Film Summary (1992)", "Did She Use Her Body As a Murder Weapon? Raven Shaddock is the main antagonist in the 1984 action-drama film Streets of Fire. Streets of Fire 1984 Willem Dafoe ROCK & ROLL FABLE BIKER GANGS Fights RoughCut RetroSpect 830 subscribers Subscribe 129 Share 17K views 5 years ago This film is one of the greatest Rock movies. Upon his return, Tom defeats a small gang of greasers and takes their car. He played Christ in Martin Scorseses The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)a film based on Nkos Kazantzkiss revisionist novel of Christs life and relationship with Mary Magdaleneand starred as an FBI agent investigating the disappearance of civil rights activists in the 1960s in Mississippi Burning (1988). Walter knew what he meantthat we were in a great position hereso he said, "We can do this two ways: present an idea now and get a deal done, or write a script on spec and get a lot more money." [67], In his first film of the 2000s, Dafoe was featured in a supporting role in American Psycho (2000) as a private investigator investigating the disappearance of a co-worker of Patrick Bateman (played by Christian Bale), an investment banker who leads a double life as a serial killer. Dafoe recalled in 2010, "We were having lunch and I said, 'Do you want to get married tomorrow?'" The Bombers, a biker gang from another part of town called the Battery, led by Raven Shaddock, crash the concert and kidnap Ellen. The ensuing battle against a nocturnal background of industrial blight, chrome . 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. [91][92] Dafoe co-starred in XXX: State of the Union (2005), an action film sequel starring Ice Cube in which Dafoe played a US Secretary of Defense attempting a coup d'tat against the President of the United States. Conceptually. Streets of Fire was a big picture for me, and I was overwhelmed. ", Dafoe on his avoidance of being typecast as a villain, 1998[52], In his first of three film appearances in 1996, Dafoe made a cameo appearance as an electrician in the biographical drama Basquiat. His character in the film served as the main antagonist, who captures the ex-girlfriend of a mercenary, played by Diane Lane and Michael Par, respectively. ActorAgeCheck Streets of Fire Release Date : Friday, June 1 1984 38 years ago Results: 47 Michael Par Tom Cody Michael Par was: 25 Thu, Oct 09 1958 Diane Lane Ellen Aim Diane Lane was: 19 Fri, Jan 22 1965 Rick Moranis Billy Fish Rick Moranis was: 31 Sat, Apr 18 1953 Amy Madigan McCoy He asks me if I'm interested in writing the script with himI ask him is the Pope Catholic? He laughed and joked light-heartedly, "That was a warm up for THE LIGHTHOUSE, I guess." "He wanted to create his own 'comic book movie', without the source material actually being a comic book", said Gross, which led to the creation of Tom Cody.[4]. I think that bothered Walter. Dafoe gained wider attention for his role as the supervillain Norman Osborn / Green Goblin in the superhero film Spider-Man (2002), a role he reprised in its sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). His performance as a hotel manager in the latter film earned Dafoe his third Oscar nomination. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment . In the real world, if someone insults you a couple of times, you can smack them. It's about excitement, it's about thrills. [15] He continued his work with the group into the 2000s, well after establishing himself as a Hollywood film star. [5] The version of "Sorcerer", composed by Stevie Nicks, that was featured on the soundtrack album was performed by Marilyn Martin. 'Cause they kept screaming at us, it's over the budget. [125] Also in 2010, Dafoe began voicing Clarence, the Birds Eye polar bear mascot in the company's television commercials in the United Kingdom,[128] and narrated Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World, a Ric Burns documentary about the history of the whaling industry in the United States. They built this gigantic tarpaulin, and the Battery and all these other places were built as real places. "Don't ask me how to act! [5], "We were very excited about Diane Lane because she was starring in two excitedly hyped Francis Ford Coppola pictures that were being done in Oklahoma", says Gross. [154] His performance in the film was generally well received by critics, including Peter Travers who felt he provided "ample compensation". He's also a tough son-of-a-bitch. The film was a box office bomb, grossing $8 million against a production budget of $14.5 million. It was so frustrating for me. Se7en's taking place in another world. Maybe if we'd had Tom Cruise, we might have had a success. He used to frequent gun clubs and he wasn't a very delicate guyWe were doing a love scene. [96] His fourth and final film appearance of 2005 was the crime thriller Ripley Under Ground, in which he played a museum curator. Streets of Fire Retrospective: It Rocks! Michael Pare - YouTube [162] Also in 2016, Dafoe appeared in another Super Bowl commercial, this time for Snickers, recreating Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress scene from the film The Seven Year Itch. I got the gun. The title of the former was used as the tagline on some promotional materials for the film. Notable roles include in The English Patient (1996), American Psycho (2000), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Antichrist (2009), John Wick (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), The Lighthouse (2019), The French Dispatch (2021), Nightmare Alley (2021), and The Northman (2022). McCoy enters and is led upstairs by one of the Bombers, where she then knocks him out and holds Raven and some of his gang members at gunpoint. In 2021 he was featured in another Anderson film, The French Dispatch, playing a crooked accountant. However, by this stage Gross and Hill had worked together so closely Gross says "I began to develop a strong sense for knowing how to sound like he did. Didn't know how to shoot music. So I went to Jimmy Iovine and I said all that to his, yeah it's true, I know. He gained prominence for his role in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), in which he played a counterfeiter attempting to elude capture by the police. [3] The actress had been in more than 10 films by the time she did Streets of Fire. [138] Later in 2012, Dafoe co-starred in the low-budget crime thriller Tomorrow You're Gone with Stephen Dorff and Michelle Monaghan. I blamed you but you can't be upset with me. 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. There he met the actress and director Elizabeth LeCompte, who founded the deconstructionist theatre company the Wooster Group, with which Dafoe later performed. The sound of the tarp flapping in the wind interfered with the actors dialogue. The fact that they made a deal with real gangs to be extras in the film. However, when they realised they would not get it in time, they asked Steinman for a song, which he wrote in two days. In 1977, Dafoe began a relationship with director Elizabeth LeCompte. [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. "He'd say it would be inappropriate to direct this movie if there were any blood", said Gross. [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. The film follows a pair of United States Navy pilots, played by Dafoe and Johnson, who scheme and participate in an unauthorized air strike on Hanoi. To escape, the group hijacks the tour bus of a doo-wop group called the Sorels. 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". When they said "We need to ADR the love scene." [34] Dafoe was briefly considered for the role of the super-villain the Joker in the Tim Burton-directed superhero film Batman (1989), as screenwriter Sam Hamm noticed physical similarities, but was never offered the part that eventually went to Jack Nicholson. Hill met Lane in New York City and she auditioned for him in black leather pants, a black mesh top and high-heeled boots. [112], Dafoe appeared in seven films in 2009, the first of which was in Lars von Trier's experimental film Antichrist. [4], Streets of Fire fared poorly at the box office, opening in 1,150 theaters on June 1, 1984, and grossing $2.4 million during its first weekend. That whole scene was a Walter thing. Gross says "There was always the idea that we were going to discover a new Steve McQueen, you know? [36] While the film was negatively received, Dafoe's performance was lauded by some critics; Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt he gave a "disciplined performance" and Janet Maslin thought he was "harrowingly good". [151] Dafoe once again collaborated with Ferrara on the drama Pasolini, in which he played Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini during his last days before his murder in 1975. So it was left behind. William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. Janet Maslin of The New York Times felt there were no great performances in the film, but praised Dafoe's "perfectly villainous" face. Dafoe plays John LeTour, the film's hero who is a 40-year-old high-class drug dealer (and a reformed addict) who searches aimlessly for purpose. Dafoe's co-star John Malkovich portrayed the film's director, F. W. Murnau. I had never done a love scene beforeI really needed help to get through it. 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. [17] Dafoe was only present for the first three months of an eight-month shoot. The first to be released, White Sands, saw Dafoe a play small-town sheriff who impersonates a dead man after finding his dead body and a suitcase containing $500,000 to solve the case, resulting in an FBI investigation. Director Walter Hill Writers Walter Hill Larry Gross Stars Michael Par Diane Lane Rick Moranis See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video rent/buy from $3.99 More watch options Add to Watchlist [185] Peter Travers of Good Morning America and Jade King at The Gamer praised Dafoe and Molina, with King asserting that the two "stole the show as Green Goblin and Doc Ock" and described the depictions as brilliant. [156] Dafoe starred in the late Brazilian director's Hctor Babenco's final film My Hindu Friend (2015) as a film director close to death who befriends a Hindu 8-year-old boy while hospitalized. Dafoe received his second Academy Award nomination for his role as Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), a fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922; Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror). "[27], In an essay for Film Comment, David Chute wrote "It's probably impossible not to enjoy the movie. [19] In 1982, Dafoe starred as the leader of an outlaw motorcycle club in the drama The Loveless, his first role as a leading man. [85], The following year, Dafoe took on another villainous role in The Clearing, albeit with a more sympathetic approach. [81] Dafoe provided his voice to the computer-animated Pixar film Finding Nemo in 2003. [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. This tarp measured 1,240 feet long by 220 feet wide over both sets, and cost $1.2 million to construct. [131] In 2011, Dafoe began narrating a series of television commercials for the Greek yogurt company Fage and starred in a Jim Beam commercial titled "Bold Choices". We were in the universe of the teenage movie. I'm just not that handy with that. It's not Chicago. [53] Next, he played a Canadian Intelligence Corps operative in the romantic war drama The English Patient, which starred Ralph Fiennes as desert explorer Count Lszl Almsy. "[4], Amy Madigan originally read for Reva, Cody's sister, and told Hill and Silver that she wanted to play the role of McCoy which, she remembers, "was written to be played by an overweight male who was a good soldier and really needed a job. That idea of a totally artificial universe. Always dark. 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 . [69] Shadow of the Vampire, his final film of the year, saw him portray a fictionalized version of the German actor Max Schreck during the production of the 1922 horror film Nosferatu, in which Schreck starred as the vampire Count Orlok. We got the songs a lot of times just a few days before we shoot. Don't worry about the script Then we go to the first edit, the first cut of the movie in the screening room and it's [Jimmy] Iovine and me and Joel Silver And about 20 minutes into the movie Jimmy turns to me and he goes this movie is really shitty isn't it? [97] Dafoe had a supporting role in Spike Lee's 2006 crime thriller Inside Man, playing a veteran captain of the NYPD Emergency Services Unit helping with a hostage negotiation during a bank heist on Wall Street. He's like a cowboy. [78] IGN's Richard George commented that Green Goblin's armor, particularly the helmet, was "almost comically bad Not only is it not frightening, it prohibits expression". He had his first leading role in the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1982) and then played the main antagonist in Streets of Fire (1984) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). So we said here's what's going to be weird about the world of our movie: No one's going to be over 30. I don't think there was any other way to do it given the circumstances.[8]. [48] Dafoe then co-starred in the spy thriller Clear and Present Danger (1994), an adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel of the name starring Harrison Ford as CIA operative Jack Ryan. Dafoe played a paraplegic, wheelchair-using Vietnam veteran who befriends the film's subject Ron Kovic (played by Tom Cruise), another paraplegic veteran. Walter Hill later said he felt "humbled" by the shoot: I think I thought I could handle things. Omissions? The film and his performance received enormous critical acclaim, with The Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday writing that "Dafoe delivers his finest performance in recent memory, bringing to levelheaded, unsanctimonious life a character who offers a glimmer of hope and caring within a world markedly short on both". Dafoe voiced Gill, a moorish idol fish who helps Nemo, a clownfish, in his struggle to return home to the ocean. In 1977 he moved to New York City and joined the Performance Group. [15], Par said that the original draft of the script had Tom Cody kill Raven with a knife. The Lantern's Brett Price wrote that Dafoe was "on another level" in No Way Home and not having his mask made him even more intimidating than he was in the 2002 film. The character's name is Tom Cody. The film was excoriated by a Variety reviewer as a "wannabe haunted house tale laced with silly sex scenes" and an "embarrassment". While there are thus two versions of the song, only Hartman's version was released commercially. 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). And Walter has it in his head to create a franchise about himintroducing him as The Stranger. Tom then goes to a local tavern, the Blackhawk, where he meets a tomboyish mechanic and ex-soldier named McCoy and lets her stay with him and Reva. 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. [41] He was due to star opposite Joan Cusack in the comedy Arrive Alive in 1991, but the film was canceled during production. Box office figures for Walter Hill films in France, "Tonight is What Means To Be Young: "Streets of Fire" at 30", "How Did This Get Made: A Conversation with 'Streets of Fire' Co-Writer Larry Gross", "Tom Cody, Pleased To Meet Ya! "[25], Gary Arnold wrote in The Washington Post that as "romantic leads, Par and Lane are pretty much a washout", and that "most of the action climaxes are treated as such throwaways that you begin to wonder if they bored the director. Two songs written by Jim Steinman were part of the soundtrack: "Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young" and "Nowhere Fast", both performed by Fire Inc., with Holly Sherwood providing lead vocals on the former and Laurie Sargent on the latter. Raven Shaddock | Villains Wiki | Fandom He had his first leading role in the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1982) and then played supporting roles in Streets of Fire (1984) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), before his breakthrough roles in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Mississippi Burning (1988). Dafoes subsequent roles included a mercenary in pursuit of a Tasmanian tiger in the Australian thriller The Hunter (2011) and an animated Martian warrior, portrayed through the motion-capture technique, in the sci-fi adventure John Carter (2012). He studied theatre at the University of Wisconsin but left school to join Theater X, an experimental Wisconsin-based theatre troupe with which Dafoe toured for four years. [8] He recalled in 2009, "My five sisters raised me because my father was a surgeon, my mother was a nurse and they worked together, so I didn't see either of them much. Tom sends Ellen off with McCoy and Billy in the convertible, telling them to meet him at the Grant Street underpass and blows up the gas pumps outside a bar. [169][170] He later played Nuidis Vulko in a leading role in James Wan's 2018 film Aquaman. [12] He later took the new interpretation as part of his stage name because he had become more used to it than his birth name. The story concerns a lawyer, played by Dafoe, who engages in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship with the woman he is representing in a murder case. He played a tormented T.S. Dafoe was an early member of experimental theater company The Wooster Group, which he is credited as co-founding in the 1970s. The film received mixed reviews, although Peter Travers felt that he added a note of "vulnerability to the menace he has made his stock in trade". Dafoe voiced the Australian ABC-television documentary 'River' in 2022,[177] which was written to highlight the precaricity of rivers worldwide. All projects pushed their release dates due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[175][176]. [153] Dafoe stated he found the use of gun fu combat created an interesting mix of action, stating "you have the grace of martial arts, but then the bang of the gun". Subtitles Streets of Fire - subtitles english 1CD srt (eng) [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. 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 . The point is that we had in mind one sentence inspired by George Lucas: "in a galaxy long ago", a futuristic past. I wasn't ready for that kind of crap. [12] He then apprenticed under Richard Schechner, the director of the avant-garde theater troupe The Performance Group, where he met and became romantically involved with director Elizabeth LeCompte. Willem Dafoe in Streets of Fire (1984) : OldSchoolCool - Reddit [147] Dafoe worked with Wes Anderson for a third time with the comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel (also 2014), featuring as the henchman of Adrien Brody's character alongside an ensemble cast led by Ralph Fiennes. Tom bids farewell to Ellen, promising that hell always be there for her if she needs him. . I think that's going to be demonstrated even more clearly in his next films. [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. And there were a few other things that contributed to that direction. It's really bad. [142] In Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace (2013), starring Christian Bale, Dafoe played the supporting role of a bookmaker running an illegal gambling operation. [173] Owen Gleiberman of Variety said "Both actors are sensational (and they work together like one), but in terms of sheer showboating power its Dafoes movie. And Willem Dafoe is the greaser. [11], When it came to casting the movie, Hill wanted to go with a young group of relative unknowns. [12] Dafoe soon joined the new company and is credited as one of its co-founders. [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. *Real* dumb if you think you can pull this off. And just so you know, this is the early 80s and you had stylized filmslike New York Citythat were all done on set and that idea was in the air. "That broke my heartI hoped, by the time the movie finished, that it would be whipped into a shape and design that would have a real impact. The group, along with the Sorels, ditch the bus and take a train back to the Richmond. Dafoe appears in Wes Anderson's ensemble period comedy The French Dispatch and Guillermo del Toro's neo-noir psychological thriller Nightmare Alley, which were both released in 2021, and Robert Eggers's historical epic The Northman, released in 2022. [5] The lighting for these concert scenes were done by Mark Brickman, who also lit concerts for Bruce Springsteen and Pink Floyd. Upcoming Willem Dafoe Movies: The French Dispatch, The Northman And In a 2007 interview, Retro Gamer magazine asked the game's designer Akira Nishitani about the similarities. We don't get that. [157], The black comedy Dog Eat Dog (2016), Dafoe's sixth film with Paul Schrader, starred Dafoe and Nicolas Cage as a pair of ex-convicts hired to kidnap a baby. The critic Peter Brunette felt the cast's performances, especially Dafoe's, were unconvincing. [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. Actually Willem Dafoe. [40] He wore fake, corroded teeth and grew a pencil moustache that bore resemblance to his previous collaborator, John Waters. And I think that if we'd done more gore, our chances of hooking the audience would be greater. 7 Early Willem Dafoe Performances You Need to See | Tribeca That was in our headsthere's the past and there's the future, sort of. "[4], The film went on to make a total of $8 million in North America, compared to a production budget of $14.5 million. [11] Jim Steinman was brought in to write the opening and closing songs, and "Streets of Fire" was replaced by "Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young". I'm a director!" [11], Gross says Hill was making Brewster's Millions at the time. [5] All 10 days of filming in Chicago were exteriors at night, on locations that included platforms of elevated subway lines and the depths of Lower Wacker Drive. Willem Dafoe, original name William J. Dafoe, (born July 22, 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S.), American actor known for his versatility and willingness to appear in controversial roles. They kind of saw it worked in the world of an MTV video."[8]. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. The production employed 500 extras to play the citizens of the Richmond District. Because I wanted to be on that stage singing with those guysBut back then I always played those quirky characters. Rick Moranis, Diane Lane, and Willem Dafoe in the opening scene to 1984's Streets of Fire. Willem Dafoe. His character was described as a "diminutive version of Dick Cheney, with wire-rimmed glasses and a fringe of white hair" by The Times writer Caryn James. Gross says they wanted Tom Cruise and made him an offer, but he had already accepted another role. [94], With the avant-garde drama Manderlay in 2005, Dafoe began another actor-director collaboration, this time with Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier.
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