Willem Dafoe is the main attraction of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, which ends tomorrow. The actor arrived with his wife, the Italian director Giada Colagrande, to present the film «Woman«.
In an interview, Dafoe assured that he feels like a "movie star", because "Movie stars are people who generally adopt a personality and films become a vehicle to carry this personality forward, while the actor is someone more disarmed, who goes to a place and takes the form that place is asking of him.«.
Dafoe remarked that he travels all the time like some kind of guy who is selling door-to-door vacuum cleaners. «I never know what my next job is going to be, I don't have contracts or job insurance with anyone, many times I feel like a guy who doesn't know what will happen to his life the next morning«.
«Whereas if I think of a real movie star I imagine him in a pool surrounded by girls going topless, snorting cocaine and waiting for the phone to ringHe added jokingly.
For Dafoe, what keeps him going to act is curiosity. «If we agree that things are not what they seem to be, it is always good to be able to have a change of perception, I am deeply attracted by that situation in which one believes that a certain issue is in such a way and then it is revealed that it is from another, that change in the perception that occurs in the acting game is still central to me«.
Via | Telam