“I basically said to Robert, ‘If you have something for me to do, I’d love to be a part of your work’, Willem Dafoe on his role in The Lighthouse.
break-out that achieved the near impossible, being both both a critical darling and a box office hit created on a shoestring budget. Today, Willem is hunched forward in his chair, relaying that first encounter with the film as if he’d stumbled across a map that pointed perfectly towards a goldmine. Even now, he’s still revelling in the riches of that discovery.
Shot on location in a pretty much deserted spot off Nova Scotia, the film’s production provided the perfect recipe for a creative disaster: hideous weather conditions and isolation would surely lead to conflicts between castmates and a morose mood on set, right? Quite the contrary. These are conditions Willem is all-too familiar with. Over the course of his four-decade career, he’s worked with some of the most notorious directors on some of the most arduous projects in modern cinematic history.
Willem's keen, wide-reaching eye for good cinema has led him to cultivate one of the most diverse back catalogues of any working actor today. For every Wes Anderson feature (he recently wrapped
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