The Northman sketch to screen, drawing by Robert Eggers
Willem Dafoe as Heimer the Fool Claes Bang as Fjölnir the Brotherless Nicole Kidman as Queen Gudrún Ethan Hawke as King Aurvandil War Raven Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth
“The lesson in Siberia is that films themselves are like a dream; even the shittiest film. You’re sitting in the dark, you’re watching some crazy shit. It’s edited, so it’s not real life anyways. Even if it’s edited well it’s all fucked-up anyways, right? That juxtaposition of time, it’s so dreamlike that you have to almost kill yourself to make it not dreamlike. The nature of the medium is: you’re in the dark, you’re half-asleep, or you’re in some other kind of hypnotic state, watching these images, telling a story—it’s the nature of a dream. It’s hard, because when you really think about the dreams you have, to try to film them you have to be a master. You’ve got to be as good as Welles or Jean Vigo. We’ll keep working at it, you know what I mean?”
Norman Osborn… Green Goblin is just like, I mean to see him work when we’re on the set, and… “God’s don’t choose. We take!” And you were like, “Ohhh ssshit!” And that cackle, “Heh, heh.” I was like, “Ohhh.” I mean, it was real. You know, I forgot I was in the movie. I’m sitting there with my popcorn like, “This motherfucker is good.” - Jamie Foxx
Willem is just fearless. And Willem doesn’t give a flying… whatever. I’m doing this. He’s just like, so un-self-conscious as an actor. Just totally free, and that’s the dream. - Andrew Garfield
It’s one of the most surreal experiences I’ve ever had in my life. When he becomes the Goblin, he is terrifying. And in the rehearsal, he starts doing the laugh, and he’s saying all this different stuff about how much he hates Peter Parker, and we’re doing this fight scene, and I just became like, a five year old kid again, watching him in the theater. - Tom Holland
WILLEM DAFOE as NORMAN OSBORN/GREENGOBLIN SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2021) | behind the scenes
