A day like today, but from 1955 he was born Willem Dafoethe famous American film and stage actor who immortalized the character ‘The green Goblin‘ in the film ‘Spiderman‘, listed as one of the best in the film industry.
His career as a film actor began in 1980 in the film ‘The heaven’s Door‘, although it was until 1986 under the role ‘sergeant elias‘, in the film ‘Platoon‘, which rose to fame by being nominated for Oscar as best supporting actor.
Who is Willem Dafoe?
He is the son of a nurse, Muriel Isabel Sprissler, and a surgeon, William Alfred Dafoe. He had five sisters and a brother, but he almost never lived with them because, according to him, they always worked.
“My dad was a surgeon, my mom was a nurse and they were always working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn’t care what I did.”
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He was always a rebellious boy, in high school he was expelled for shooting a pornographic movie, however, he continued studying and when he got to the University of Milwaukeetook his first steps as an actor until he managed to move to New Yorkwhere he participated in several theater companies.
He had an affair with the theater director, Elizabeth LeCompte11 years older than him, but that was not an impediment for them to have a son in 1982.
In 2004 they separated and on March 25, 2005, Willem Dafoe married the Italian director and actress Giada Colagrande.
More than 100 movies
The brand new actor has participated in more than 100 moviesamong the most prominent are: The last temptation of Christ(1988), ‘Mississippi Burning’ (1988), ‘Tom & Viv’ (1994), The English Patient (1996) y ‘American Psycho‘ (2000).
Although for the youth he does not forget the role he played in 2002 in ‘Spiderman’ con ‘The green Goblin’ / Norman Osbornimmortalized it to the point of interpreting it again in 2021 in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’.
‘The Green Goblin’, the character immortalized
In interviews with film media, Dafoe assured that in his life one of the characters he liked the most is ‘The green Goblin‘, a villain of Marvel Comics much loved by his fans.
Dafoe He said that in 2001 he had to spend eight hours in the dressing room while the team put the suit on until it fit properly to the body. Now, he noted, they are able to design a custom suit, even making improvements to the original suit.
Such was the success of this character that, in 2021that is, 20 years later, he put on the suit again, but not before imposing conditions to star in it again.
In an interview for The Hollywood Reporter, Willem Dafoe commented that he did not want to appear in the new film ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home‘ if he was just going to do it with a cameo: “I’ll come back if there’s something really good. If it’s just a cameo or a brief appearance, I’m not sure I want to do it. If it’s something substantial, yes, “he said.
What was Dafoe’s condition?
“I want to do the action sequences because that’s fun for me and it’s also really impossible to bring truth or fun to the character if you’re not involved in these things. Because all those action moments inform your relationship with the characters and with the story and it also allows you to… that, it earns you the right to play the character in a fun way,” he added.
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Hoy Willem Dafoe turns 67 and in his day he is remembered for his great performances in all his films, especially in Spiderman where he immortalized ‘The green Goblin’.
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