Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu”
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
4.2 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Listener supported, WNYC Studios. |
| 0:10.8 | This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm Adam Howard. I'm a producer on the show, and I'm filling in for David Remnick this week. |
| 0:27.0 | Willem Defoe is one of the most versatile actors working in Hollywood. He's played everything from Jesus Christ to the Green Goblin. |
| 0:34.3 | He also has one of the most distinctive faces and voices in movies, which has been deployed |
| 0:39.0 | to great effect in blockbusters and smaller indie darlings. |
| 0:44.0 | Defoe's most recent project is the highly anticipated vampire film Nosephratu. |
| 0:49.2 | It's his third movie with the director Robert Eggers, who's known for his ambitious and meticulously |
| 0:53.9 | researched genre movies, |
| 0:55.7 | like The Witch and the Northman. |
| 0:57.9 | In Nospheratu, Willem Defoe plays the vampire hunter, |
| 1:01.4 | so he's a good guy, but with a shadowy disposition. |
| 1:05.7 | I have seen things in this world that would have made Isaac Newton crawl back into his mother's womb. |
| 1:12.6 | We have not become so much enlightened as we have been blinded by the gaseous light of science. |
| 1:20.6 | I have wrestled with the devil as Jacob wrestled the angel and pendul, and I tell you, if we are to tame darkness, we must first |
| 1:29.1 | face that it exists. |
| 1:32.6 | Minor Hannan, we are here encountering the undead plague carrier. |
| 1:40.7 | Evandria. |
| 1:43.2 | Osferato. |
| 1:46.4 | I spoke to Wilhelm de Foe about his acting philosophy |
| 1:49.3 | and his work with the visionary director of Robert Eggers. |
| 1:55.6 | I should start by telling you, |
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