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Willem Dafoe will have a wild role in Tim Burton's upcoming Beetlejuice 2. Michael Keaton, Jenna Ortega, Winona Ryder, Monica Bellucci, and Catherine O'Hara also star in the sequel.
“I became a detective character in the afterlife”
Speaking to Variety at the Marrakech Film Festival, Dafoe spoke about Burton's long-awaited sequel. “I haven't seen any footage yet, but it was fun to do,” he confessed.
He then revealed that his Beetlejuice 2 character is a “police officer in the afterlife.”
“I play a police officer in the afterlife, so I’m a dead person,” Dafoe said. “And in life I was a B-movie action star, but I had an accident and that’s what sent me to the other side. But because of my skills, I became a detective character in the afterlife. So that’s my job. But it’s colored by the fact of who I was [when I was alive]: a B movie action star.”
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Willem Dafoe is known for his roles in Platoon, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Florida Project, and The Lighthouse. In the early 2000s, Dafoe played Norman Osborn/the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy. He would reprise the role nearly 15 years later in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
He's also worked with Wes Anderson on several occasions dating back to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Most recently, Dafoe appeared in Anderson's last two feature films, The French Dispatch and Asteroid City. Another frequent collaborator of his is Paul Schrader, most recently starring in The Card Counter.
Currently, Dafoe is promoting his latest project, Poor Things. Yorgos Lanthimos directed the film and Emma Stone and Mark Fuffalo also star in it. Dafoe also voices a role in the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron.
