Willem Dafoe

..."Full Metal Jacket." And a battle of conscience between Flake and upstanding straight-shooter Lawyer McCoy (Rob Devaney) smacks of the face-off between Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger in Oliver Stone's "Platoon." It's hard to have an...

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...there's questioning the extremes von Trier demands from his actors. Dafoe has repeatedly played difficult characters for great but demanding directors. Indulge me in making a list: Paul Schrader, Werner Herzog, Abel Ferrara,...

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...pop culture psyche. Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe turn in the performances of their lives as sergeants on opposite moral sides of the war, who not only battle the enemy but each other for the very souls of their men. Charlie Sheen turns in...

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...attract their fair share of controversy: Dogma, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark all did. " Dafoe is no stranger to controversy. He stimulated cunnilingus on Madonna in a car park in Body of Evidence, and outraged the moral majority...

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...games beforehand and wouldn't be much money. I thought, "Hmmmm ... I could play baseball in Tampa and have a hot blonde in my life ... or I could sit in a ditch with Willem Dafoe getting muddy. " It wasn't that tough a decision. I also had a...

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...of their most valuable natural resource: human blood. But it is for his work in Lars von Trier's beyond-controversial ANTICHRIST that Dafoe will be most remembered in 2009, and that's not even taking into account recent festival screenings...

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