Such caution can drive his interviewers to vexatious extremes: one notorious encounter with a major broadsheet dwelt entirely on rumours about the eye-watering size of his, er, lunchbox. It isn't what I normally gravitate towards." In Dafoe-speak you've just heard a rant: it may not seem like it because he qualifies everything he says with maddeningly precise terms. "Lee Strasberg took one sliver of Stanislavski and developed it into a whole technique, and that's what the method is. "I don't really know many method actors and I'm certainly not a method actor," he says, as if talking to himself. But when I suggest that one of the major themes of his latest movie, Shadow of the Vampire, is a joke at the expense of method acting, a little bit of colour seems to rise on those high cheekbones, a little bit of extra light seems to frazzle round those oddly piercing eyes. It's notoriously hard to get comments on other actors out of 45-year-old Wisconsin-bred Willem Dafoe - he's so fastidious in interviews you'd swear he'd taken a vow of silence. Willem Dafoe's bodily endowments have previously, and embarrassingly, been the focus of interviewers.
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