I lived downtown in New York and used to see Willem around town… a lot. We saw each other so much that one day I was coming down some stairs and he was coming up and he got this look of recognition and smiled and said hello how you doing… nicest guy. I never got a chance to work with him, but wish I had.
Just heard Marc tell Buscemi that Defoe and he didn't click and that the next time they saw each other at a festival Defoe's was the look of contempt. You can feel the tension.
Fab interview. Marc is perfecting this process. Willem engaging, I will follow these wonderful interviews, as long as they are avialable. Long live WTF!
I’m the 4th out of 6, so I understand the whole ‘running through names’ thing. I swear, my parents went through EVERYONE’S names before they got to the kid they actually wanted to talk to. One time they forgot mine lol. Great interview! Love Willem.
My oldest friend from HS had 7, 2 oldest were girls. Her mom would rattle off the 5 boys names & finish up with AND GIRLS! Used to bother her 😂 Mine was my Nan, my mom had one sister, she had one daughter the same as us, she would get us mixed up name wise, she would call for me as Letty, Terri, Tara, Sheila bingo!
"The Last Temptation of Christ", "Wild at Heart", "The Affliction", "eXistenZ", "Shadow of the Vampire", "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done", "The Florida Project" and "The Lighthouse" are my favorite movies he was in.
First time I ever saw Defoe was Mississippi burning. My mother made me watch it when I was about 10 yrs old. It was probably the first real adult film I saw that stayed with me. Gene Hackman Defoe still two of my favorites.
This whole interview sounded like Marc was interviewing a villain. Maybe it's the thumbnail but I can't stop seeing it. I wanna live in the universe where Dafoe plays the joker. Great episode
I thought willem came off very pretentious and had to take the contrary opinion to everything. I love him in film and hoped he would be cooler. Looks like I'm in the minority here compared to the other comments but I didn't like him.
The interviewer interrupts too much and comes off as defensive… This is not one of his little comedy buddies and Moran is, quite frankly out of his league. His interview with Lorne Michaels was the same.
@@vrvaughn Love Marc, but he didn't prepare well for this one at all. He really missed the boat on how to connect with Dafoe, if he was truly interested in that. Dafoe appreciates in-depth exploration of ideas, and really informed discussion of art, philosophy, and politics and Marc just kept jumping around, interrupting superficially, being probably pretty intimidated by Dafoe actually and feeling defensive and inadequate. Awkward 😂
I appreciate those who will disagree...but as written/directed, Platoon is a piece of shit. There's the scene when the characters are relaxing. The cool guys smoke weed, sing motown, and are the good guys....the squares drink beer, play cards, and are bad guys. And the contrived, movie of the week murder melodrama. But Platoon is an amazing movie because of Willem, Berenger, Sheen, David, McGinley, Dillon. Their performances carried it. A far more interesting and complex narrative would have been Berenger exonerated for the village slaughter, with Sheen the idealist, refusing to drop it, while Willem is angry about the slaughters, he is the realist (fighting with Berenger makes it more likely he goes home alive and if that means from time to time he goes too far, so be it and Sheen needs to move on) Then you can still have the same ending, except instead of Berenger's evil villain, he sees Sheen as the weak link that will get men killed, and when Willem dies in the final patrol, with each blaming the other (Sheen sees Berenger is reckless, with blood lust and led them to an ambush...Berenger sees Sheen as a coward, who didn't have Willem's back, etc) and the conflict comes to a head.
And yet Oliver Stone won the Oscar for Best Director. He also wrote the screenplay. I couldn’t imagine the movie or the story being any better. I’m guessing age and generation probably have something to do with it. I’m guessing you’re from a younger generation, either Millennial or Gen Z?
