At the New York Premiere, William Dafoe, the lead actor in “Poor Things,” shares insights into his character Dr. Godwin Baxter, and explores the intriguing relationship dynamics with Emma Stone's character, Bella Baxter. Additionally, he reflects on the overall cast of the upcoming film.
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00:00 I just recommend it highly, okay?
00:02 Beautiful, beautiful story.
00:06 Yorgos Lanthimos is an exceptional filmmaker.
00:10 Emma Stone gives an incredible performance.
00:14 The whole cast is great.
00:16 It's a very special movie for me.
00:19 It's a beautiful, complicated relationship he has
00:22 with the Bella character played by Emma Stone.
00:25 And I enjoyed it very much.
00:27 I've got quite extreme makeup,
00:29 which provides me with a mask,
00:32 provides me with a trigger
00:34 that really allows me to inhabit the character
00:37 because when you have something like that,
00:40 it really pushes you,
00:42 it really allows you to leap into being another person.
00:46 So, I don't know, it was great fun to do.
00:49 And it's a beautiful movie, what can I say?
00:52 We did something that's kind of unconventional
00:55 is we had a rehearsal before,
00:58 and that wasn't necessarily to explore the text.
01:02 It was really to create a company.
01:04 So we played theater games
01:05 and got a level of trust and cooperation
01:10 that's very rare.
01:12 So that really bonded us.
01:16 And even now, when we're reunited,
01:19 there's a very good feeling.
01:20 It was a good cast and beautiful experience.
01:25 I hope they enjoy it.
01:26 It offers many things.
01:29 It's the kind of movie that people will see themselves in it.
01:34 There's elements that really show you
01:41 how sometimes we accept social conditioning
01:45 that we take as a given.
01:47 And it kind of allows us through Bella's journey
01:51 to see another way at looking at some of these things
01:54 that control us.