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Willem Dafoe has never stopped working long enough to be rediscovered. And yet, each generation seems to find him anew.
That's the intriguing juxtaposition at the center of Late Fame, out now, a wry new film in which Dafoe plays Ed Saxberger, a onetime poet whose long-forgotten work is suddenly embraced by a group of young artists (The Enthusiasm Society). Unlike Ed, who left poetry behind for a tranquil life, Dafoe has steadily kept creating. Still, he understands the seduction of having a younger generation turn your past work into its own mythology.
He experienced it firsthand while making the film. Dafoe's young costars asked him about To Live and Die in L.A. and other projects from earlier in his career, mirroring the way their characters idolize Ed.
"I get sucked into telling stories, entertaining them and playing 'the old dude,' when I don't feel like the old dude," he tells Yahoo for the latest Off the Cuff. "But in this context, I was."
Dafoe has experienced that rediscovery on a much larger scale through Spider-Man. More than two decades after he first played Norman Osborn in Sam Raimi's 2002 blockbuster, the franchise continues to introduce him to new fans — sometimes literally. When he's stopped on the street, he reveals, more often than not, it's because of Green Goblin.
#dafoe #long #dude #willem
That's the intriguing juxtaposition at the center of Late Fame, out now, a wry new film in which Dafoe plays Ed Saxberger, a onetime poet whose long-forgotten work is suddenly embraced by a group of young artists (The Enthusiasm Society). Unlike Ed, who left poetry behind for a tranquil life, Dafoe has steadily kept creating. Still, he understands the seduction of having a younger generation turn your past work into its own mythology.
He experienced it firsthand while making the film. Dafoe's young costars asked him about To Live and Die in L.A. and other projects from earlier in his career, mirroring the way their characters idolize Ed.
"I get sucked into telling stories, entertaining them and playing 'the old dude,' when I don't feel like the old dude," he tells Yahoo for the latest Off the Cuff. "But in this context, I was."
Dafoe has experienced that rediscovery on a much larger scale through Spider-Man. More than two decades after he first played Norman Osborn in Sam Raimi's 2002 blockbuster, the franchise continues to introduce him to new fans — sometimes literally. When he's stopped on the street, he reveals, more often than not, it's because of Green Goblin.
#dafoe #long #dude #willem
