


When you’ve got a smaller role, or your role is a device in the film, then it’s more difficult to invest in that way. WD: I loved being on set every day and having to be present all the time, because it wears you down so you lose your self-consciousness and really become the landscape, the story. That’s the leap of faith.ĭD: Tell me about the experience of filming it. How are we going to do that? But that’s what’s exciting about it. There were many challenging things in the script, which I had to appetite to do.ĭD: Certain scenes – such as the genital mutilation – you must have read and thought…. Willem Dafoe: Because it’s a challenging role and the subject matter interested me. He stars alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg in the Danish director’s controversial new film, Antichrist.ĭazed Digital: Antichrist is an extreme film, with very graphic sex and violence.

Perhaps best known as the Green Goblin in the Spider-Man franchise, the legendary stage and screen actor Willem Dafoe is actually happiest cavorting about naked in the woods for Lars Von Trier.
