6 Hour Makeup: This actor is unidentified opposite Emma Stone in this highly anticipated 2024 fantasy film

Ahead of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice 2, which has just resumed filming, Willem Dafoe starred in Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest feature film, Poor Creatures.

The film, which was awarded the Golden Lion at the last Venice Film Festival, scheduled to hit our theaters on January 17, is the story of Frankenstein.

Willem Dafoe plays Dr. Godwin Baxter, whose face was mutilated by his younger father’s surgeon. The American actress shares the bill with Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Remy Youssef, Margaret Cowell, Jerrod Carmichael and Christopher Abbott.

Adapted from Scottish author Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name, the film follows Bella (Stone), a young woman brought to life by the brilliant and unorthodox Dr. Godwin Baxter. Eager to discover a world she knows nothing about, she runs into Duncan Wedderburn (Ruffalo), a smart and depraved lawyer, and embarks on a dizzying odyssey across continents.

During the last interview given on the website variety To promote the movie Inside in our theaters from November 1st, William Dafoe Talked about poor creatures and especially everyday makeup.

Before filming, the 68-year-old actress had to go through 6 hours of make-up! The team began simulating the scars so Willem Dafoe could get a better idea of ​​what Dr. Baxter would look like.

He explains: “The role required six hours of make-up a day, four hours on and two hours off to make it work.e. I showed up at three in the morning when the team had a meeting at seven. I sat in the chair, thinking, trying to stay calm. You can’t sleep because it’s complex enough, you have to work with people who do make-up and prosthetics.”.

“It was time consuming, but I enjoyed working with the mask – because it was literally a mask.“- he adds.

This is not the first time that the actor has gone through the make-up box since he played the actor Max Shrek, the famous Count Orlok, as well as the vampire Nosferatu in Shadow of the Vampire in 2000. A remake of Nosferatu by Robert Eggers, in an as-yet-unknown role, but not as a vampire, as Bill Skarsgård will play the creature.

Poor Creatures will be in our theaters from January 17.