VIDEO: Willem Dafoe Talks Why His Characters Almost Always Die

Willem Dafoe appeared on THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN last night. James asks Willem about his impressive roster in films and wonders why many of Willem's roles end up with his characters dead by the end of the film.

Willem Dafoe is an American actor. A member of the experimental theater company the Wooster Group, he has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor three times for his roles as Elias in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986), Nosferatu actor Max Schreck in the horror film Shadow of the Vampire (2000), and Bobby Hicks in The Florida Project (2017).

One of the most prolific character actors of American cinema, Dafoe has appeared in films including To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Mississippi Burning (1988), Born on the Fourth of July(1989), The English Patient (1996), The Boondock Saints (1999), American Psycho (2000), Spider-Man (2002), John Wick (2014), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). He is also known for his roles in European arthouse films Faraway, So Close! (1993), The Dust of Time (2008) and Antichrist (2009).

He has also had voice roles in Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016), Fantastic Mr. FOX (2009), John Carter (2012), and the recent adaptation of Death Note (2017).

The Late Late Show with James Corden (also known as Late Late) is an American late-night talk show hosted by James Corden on CBS. It is the fourth and current iteration of The Late Late Show. Airing in the U.S. from Monday to Friday nights, it is taped in front of a studio audience Monday through Thursday afternoons - during weeks in which first-run episodes are scheduled to air - at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California in Studio 56, directly above the Bob Barker Studio (Studio 33). It is produced by Fulwell 73 and CBS Television Studios.

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