Willem Dafoe opens further return as ‘Spider-Man’ villain Green Goblin: ‘I mean, it’s a great role’
4x Oscar Nominees Willem Dafoe expressed his intention to return to spiderman Multiverse again, given the right opportunity.
Actor best known for his iconic villain role as Norman Osborn aka The Green Goblin in Sam Raimi’s 2000s spiderman After the trilogy, A recent interview with Inversetold the outlet, “If all goes well, I’d be happy to reprise the part.”
“I mean, it’s a great role,” opined Defoe. [were] It was a very different experience, but I had a great time on both. ”
Dafoe’s Spidey character Osborne is a scientist holding the post of CEO of Oscorp who went mad in Raimi’s 2002 trilogy opening installment Spider-Man and the eponymous spider played by Tobey Maguire. It follows a nest-throwing superhero after a strength-building experiment gone awry. , Peter Parker, a close friend of his own son, Harry (James Franco), despite the fact that Spidey is in his everyday life. While the character met his end in that film in a failed attempt to kill Parker, Defoe reprized the part in small appearances in Raimi’s sequels, Spider-Man 2 and 3.
The actor recently returned to the Spider-Verse for the 2021 multiverse picture Spider-Man: No Way Home, reuniting with Maguire’s version of the character on-screen, but giving the most recent version played by Tom Holland a scare. movie series.
And Defoe is certainly not the only legacy star in the franchise to express excitement about further installments. interview, when I got the call to come back to No Way Home, I said, “Finally!”
“I got the call and was open about doing this right away. It’s like, “Yes!” It’s fun and exciting,” said Spidey 1.0.
“I love these movies and I love all the different series,” Maguire continued. ‘ or ‘Would you like to do this movie, read a scene, do a Spider-Man thing? why wouldn’t i want to do that?
Dafoe’s Inverse interview follows the world premiere in Berlin in support of his new thriller Inside, which is released by Focus Features on Friday. Vasilis Katsoupis’ first feature stars him as Nemo, a high-end art thief who finds himself trapped in a New York penthouse after a robbery doesn’t go as planned. Trapped inside with only a priceless work of art, he must use all his cunning and inventions to survive. Other topical upcoming projects for the actor include Wes Anderson’s potentially Cannes-premiering Asteroid City, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu for Focus, and Yorgos Lanthimos’ film Poor Things. “AND” etc.
It’s not yet clear what Sony has in mind for its next live-action Spider-Man movie, but the studio plans to release Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Man: To the Spider-Verse — on June 2nd.
