According to a report from the Sarajevo Film Festival, Willem Dafoe is said to have pushed back against a question about American politics asked during the event.
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“You’ve got to be kidding me with that question, right?” the star of “The Lighthouse” reportedly responded.
“If you know anything about me — and you do — that’s not a real question,” he said, according to Variety, which reported that Willem Dafoe then moved on to the next topic.
The discussion shifted to Dafoe’s role in Sean Baker’s film “The Florida Project.”
The magazine recalled that in 2017 the actor was interviewed by the late Larry David. On that occasion, Dafoe said that he doesn’t always “know where to step into the discussion” and that “there are better people to talk about the political situation.”
“I’m an actor, and whenever I have an issue, I feel that I express myself. I don’t want to be a coward. I express myself best through my work. There are better people to talk about the political situation,” Willem Dafoe admitted.
“Personally, our leader should be a moral leader, and I don’t think we’re heading in the right direction. We are a powerful country, and we have a responsibility to the rest of the world,” he said at the time about Donald Trump’s first term.
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