![]() There, they manage to turn Lizard back into a man, de-sand Sandman, and unplug Electro. With the three Spider-brainiacs quickly cracking how to help the four remaining evil-doers, they lure the villains to the newly shielded Statue of Liberty. Together with MJ, they quickly manage to find Tom Holland’s Parker and the trio set about creating cures for the villains. Turns out, not just villains were brought into the MCU: Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire’s web-heads are here, too. Meanwhile, best friend Ned uses Doctor Strange’s portal-maker finger-thing to search for Parker but finds… the wrong Peter Parker. Before she dies, though, she manages to give Uncle Ben’s classic “with great power comes great responsibility” speech. They all escape and Gobbers ends up killing Aunt May with his hovercraft. Doctor Octopus has his inhibitor chip restored but Green Goblin turns sour. ![]() He takes the box from Strange, locks the wizard in the Mirror Dimension, and takes the villains to Happy’s apartment where Parker can try and cure the Sinister Five of their evil superpowers – the hope being that, by doing so, when they return to their respective universes, they will no longer die because they are no longer bad. I like this movie very much." Willem Dafoe as Bobby, a budget motel's dutiful manager, dealing with some unexpected guests, in "The Florida Project.Parker’s moral conscience won’t allow that. "You're the flag-bearer, essentially, for the film," Teichner said. "I'm very happy, and since the movie wasn't nominated, I'm really proud to represent the movie." "I'm very thankful that I was nominated, and I'm not blasé about it at all," he said. So for this consummate shape-shifter to emerge and play the Hollywood game in the run-up to the Oscars speaks not so much to his ambition as it does to his generosity. You know, it's pretty heavy being an actor in Los Angeles, 'cause you're always reminded of yourself, where here, it's much easier to get lost." I like being in California when I'm there, because I'm usually working, and I see friends, and the weather's nice and all that. "I like Hollywood fine, but I don't live there," he said. Spend any time at all with Willem Dafoe, and you understand that he likes to disappear into his roles - and his life. I think I express myself best through my body. Teichner asked, "You said that you sometimes feel that your acting is, that you're more like a dancer?" "I have a lot of faith in the wisdom of the body," he said. Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Matthew Hansell and Ron Vawter in the Wooster Group's 1979 production of "Point Judith (an epilog)." Twenty-seven years with the company taught Dafoe a very physical kind of acting. The Wooster Group was experimental theater at its most experimental. It wasn't a commercial work it was a work that was personal and it was a work that pushed forms." And initially that was this downtown scene, and specifically these people working at the Wooster Group. "And to be around these people that I thought were really fascinating and stimulated me. His dream starting out "was to get through next week!" he laughed. "It was a rough neighborhood," he said.īut a good place at a good time to shape the kind of actor he would become. In 1977, at the age of 22, he found himself living in the East Village, near Tompkins Square Park. He performed in college productions at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.īut he needed to come to New York City because it was, he said, "Mecca." The son of a surgeon and a nurse, William Dafoe was the second youngest of eight children. It's an unimaginable career trajectory for the kid from Appleton, Wisconsin. He's said he remembers his life by the movies he's made - more than 100, four released last year alone. You can change how you think by performing." When I was a young actor, you know, everybody used to always say, 'Ah, you know, it's not brain surgery.' Well, it is a little bit. ![]() "I'm very high-minded about what I do," he said. Compare that to his nomination in 2001 for "Shadow of the Vampire," or to his 1987 nomination for "Platoon." There's no better way to gauge Dafoe's range as an actor. His understated performance has earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor - his third. "The fact that basically he was making it with a mixed cast of professional and new performers and children and non-performers filming in an actual place, telling a story that's not usually told, of an underclass, of a world that I didn't really know," Dafoe replied.
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