“But a collection is the physical manifestation of the obsessions, the passions, the loves, the encounters of a collector.”īigazzi retired to a back room and sat on a blue velvet couch.

“The antagonist is never there, apart from in Nemo’s dreams or hallucinations,” Bigazzi said. (He’s not so different from the Green Goblin, the character Dafoe played in “Spider-Man.”) Nemo’s mark, a Pritzker-winning architect, is in Kazakhstan, apparently working on something called the Tulip Tower. Would Bigazzi pick out the art works that become the thief’s only companions?Īll alone in the Manhattan high-rise, the burglar, Nemo (that’s Nobody, in Latin), begins to go mad. A few years ago, Bigazzi, a forty-one-year-old Florentine, was approached by a producer to help with the details. He was at a downtown gallery to attend the opening of a show by Francesco Clemente, and the film he was talking about was “Inside,” which stars Willem Dafoe as an art thief who gets trapped, mid-heist, in a New York City penthouse when its security system malfunctions. He recently completed work on Marina Abramovic's opera 7 Deaths of Maria Callas.“Working on this film, we weren’t just building a set but building a character,” the curator Leonardo Bigazzi said the other day. Since then, he worked with Richard Foreman in Idiot Savant at The Public Theatre (NYC), with Robert Wilson on two international productions: The Life & Death of Marina Abramovic and The Old Woman opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov and developed a new theatre piece, directed by Romeo Castellucci, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil. He created and performed in all of the group's work from 1977 thru 2005, both in the U.S. Dafoe is one of the founding members of The Wooster Group, the New York based experimental theatre collective. That adventurous spirit continues with upcoming films including Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch, Abel Ferrara's Siberia, and Paul Schrader's The Card Counter. His natural adventurousness is evident in roles as diverse as Marcus, the elite assassin who is mentor to Keanu Reeves in the neo-noir John Wick in his voice work as Gil the Moorish Idol in Finding Nemo and Ryuk the Death God in Death Note as Paul Smecker, the obsessed FBI agent in the cult classic The Boondock Saints and as real life hero Leonhard Seppala, who led the 1925 Alaskan dog sled diphtheria serum run in Ericson Core's Togo. He and his wife, director Giada Colagrande, have made three films together: Padre, A Woman, and Before It Had A Name. He is of mostly German, Irish, Scottish, and English descent. Willem was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, to Muriel Isabel (Sprissler), a nurse, and William Alfred Dafoe, a surgeon. Among his other nominations and awards, he has received two Los Angeles Film Critics Awards, a New York Film Critics Circle Award, a National Board of Review Award, two Independent Spirit Awards, Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup, as well as a Berlinale Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement. Dafoe has been recognized with four Academy Award nominations: Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Platoon, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Shadow Of The Vampire, for which he also received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Florida Project, for which he also received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations, and most recently, Best Leading Actor for At Eternity's Gate, for which he also received a Golden Globe nomination. Since then, he has collaborated with directors who represent a virtual encyclopedia of modern cinema: James Wan, Robert Eggers, Sean Baker, Kenneth Branagh, Kathryn Bigelow, Sam Raimi, Alan Parker, Walter Hill, Mary Harron, Wim Wenders, Anton Corbijn, Zhang Yimou, Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Oliver Stone, William Friedkin, Werner Herzog, Lars Von Trier, Abel Ferrara, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Anthony Minghella, Theo Angelopoulos, Robert Rodriguez, Phillip Noyce, Hector Babenco, John Milius, Paul Weitz, The Spierig Brothers, Andrew Stanton, Josh Boone, Dee Rees and Julian Schnabel. In 1979, he was given a role in Michael's Cimino's Heaven's Gate, from which he was fired. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large and small, Hollywood films as well as Independent cinema. Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time.

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