One of these days I’m going to keep my promise to stop reading reviews. So I got a little seduced into reading some of the stuff. The audience loved it, but then I heard there had been a very mixed response in the press screenings. WD: I try not to read them but, with this film, I attended a fantastic public screening in Cannes. The places that we’re all trained to not talk about or deal with.ĭD: Inevitably, the film has sparked strong reactions.
But, with his art, he goes to very dark places. In some ways, he’s a nice, square, comfortable guy.
He’s very driven, talented and smart – all of which haunt him a little bit and that’s where his perversity comes out. He has a reputation for being difficult with actors but really he’s an actor’s dream because he challenges you but he also protects you.
It was very cool.ĭD: You worked with Lars before on 2005’s Manderlay… We were staying in this strange little golf resort in the middle of these German woods and, at the end of each day, my wife (filmmaker Giada Colagrande) would cook a big meal. WD: Sometimes Charlotte and Lars would come by for dinner. And I was in good company because it was with Lars, Charlotte and (cinematographer) Anthony Dod Mantle, who are generous and fun to work with.ĭD: Did you hang out together when you weren’t filming? 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.
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