Willem Dafoe Talks Filming Inside and Preparing for Nosferatu
61Willem Dafoe is one of the greatest actors of our time, and he's well known for taking roles that are both outside the box and outside of the comfort zone of a lot of actors. His next role, Nemo in first-time director Vasilis Katsoupis' Inside, slides perfectly into that niche as he spends the majority of the film entirely alone going more and more insane as the days go by. In Inside, Dafoe plays an art thief who becomes trapped within the high-rise apartment of a mark on the way out of a heist gone wrong.
With Inside, director Katsoupis wanted to recreate the concept of Robinson Crusoe in the setting of a luxurious Manhattan apartment, bringing the elements of a deserted island to the isolation of being on top of the world. Throughout the film, Dafoe experiences moments of madness and euphoria as he tries to find a way out. In his review of the film Collider's own Marco Vito Oddo called out the core theme of Inside saying, "Art, as a testament to humanity's unique ability to cheat death, gives meaning to our fragile lives."
Recently, I sat down with Dafoe to discuss his role in the film which relies so heavily on his solo performance. During our conversation, Dafoe spoke about what it was like working with Katsoupis, filming in chronological order, how acting is an art form of human expression relating to the themes of the film, and the collective experience of isolation during the pandemic which might allow audiences to relate to Nemo. He also spoke about getting to reunite with frequent collaborator Robert Eggers on his next horror project, Nosferatu, which begins filming this spring.
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