Is it one down, two up?"īy the time the moment of truth rolled around, Dafoe still didn't know the back end of a motorcycle from the front. Since then, the mythology surrounding Dafoe’s fabled genitals have only continued to grow and has provided a lot of fodder for countless memes on the internet.Dafoe told GQ, "I don't want to lose the part, so they say, have you ever ridden a motorcycle? O course, classically, what does an actor do? They lie." He was eventually found out when shooting began and he was called upon to ride a "1955 big Harley hog." He scrambled to find someone to teach him before he started filming, without any success: "That's before the internet, so I'm going to the library to get a book on how to shift. And we had to kind of take the scenes out of the film, we had a stand-in for him, we had to take the scenes out with his own dick.” Lars von Trier explained that Dafoe’s character practises some contentious psychotherapy in the film, claiming: “I wouldn’t let him treat her in any other way than with his dick, he has an enormous dick, but that maybe I took also…he’s extremely well-equipped. The famous scene where the penis ejaculates blood actually had someone else’s penis in the frame as the director felt Dafoe’s appendage was too large. As the director wanted to explore the relationship between human depravity and sexuality, a lot of strange sex scenes had been envisioned as a part of Antichrist’s artistic framework.Īfter Antichrist was released, von Trier revealed in an interview that Willem Dafoe actually needed a double for his sex scenes because his penis was so large that everyone in the room got confused. While the film has become a notorious addition to the world of horror, there is one interesting story which surfaced from the production process of Antichrist.
Lars von Trier later revealed that this dark film was actually the product of his own struggles with depression, written during a period when he had been hospitalised for his mental health. In order to deal with the traumatic event, they decide to retreat from the world and live in an isolated cabin in the middle of a mysterious forest.Īs the days pass, the man (Dafoe) experiences bizarre visions while his partner (Charlotte Gainsbourg) engages in increasingly sadomasochistic sexual acts. One of Dafoe’s most iconic performances came in Lars von Trier’s 2009 psychological horror film Antichrist, a film that revolves around a couple who are trying to cope with the loss of their son.
While Dafoe is still celebrated for his portrayal of the Green Goblin in the Spider-Man films, he has continued to reinvent himself through enigmatic projects like The Lighthouse.
Willem Dafoe is undoubtedly among the most talented and versatile actors of our time, having delivered powerful performances in projects that couldn’t be more different from each other.
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