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Willem Dafoe On ‘Poor Things’, ‘Beetlejuice 2’ And Keeping Busy In 2024: “I Don’t Work Just To Work. I’m Lucky…”
It was only a matter of time before Willem Dafoe worked with Yorgos Lanthimos, and the result is everything you might expect and more. In Poor Things, the actor plays Dr. Godwin Baxter, a Scottish …
In Poor Things, the actor plays Dr. Godwin Baxter, a Scottish scientist given to sewing dog’s heads onto chickens, and we meet him after completing the most important experiment of his life: by transplanting an infant’s brain into the skull of its dead mother, he creates the anarchic and wholly unpredictable Bella ( Emma Stone). Here, he reflects on the film’s strange, unique world, raises the curtain on 2024, and talks a little about his recent festival hit Inside, in which he plays a clueless thief who becomes trapped in the apartment of a wealthy art collector. DAFOE: Well, it’s a little difficult, because it’s such a fantastical world that you don’t know what you’ll need until you get there, because when you get there, you see all these strange things, and you can’t rely on your normal impulses because nothing reminds you of anything, necessarily.
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