10/25/2023 0 Comments Wild at heart willem dafoe teethIt’s an image familiar from “Nosferatu,” and Dafoe says the trick was to both pay homage to Schreck and take the character beyond where the first film left off. “I was starting from a place of imitation using the original as a model because I knew we were going to be cross-cutting and I was also very excited about being in that make-up, in that costume,” says Dafoe. The result is a performance that jumps between the terrifying and the comedic, with Dafoe’s appearance providing fodder for each emotion: rheumy eyes, rodent teeth, filthy 6-inch-long fingernails, rhythmically clicking against each other from limp wrists. … That’s very fertile ground for pretending and it addresses a poetry in performance that you can’t always tap because we’re usually very wrapped up in psychology and naturalism.” “One of the greatest pleasures,” says Dafoe, “is that it’s a role that’s allowed me to approach it from a very physical place to find a physical language that wasn’t necessarily naturalistic at all, so it could be danced and sung.
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