Willem Dafoe on the "Playful, Goofy Aesthetic" of Tim Burton's 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Willem Dafoe chats with THR at the London red carpet premiere of director Tim Burton's 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' and dishes on the "playful, goofy aesthetic" of the film.

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00:00And had you worked with Tim Burton before?

00:02No, no, and that was a big draw.

00:04I mean, when he asked, I've followed him for years

00:06and I really like his movies.

00:08He's contributed a lot to movies.

00:10So when he asked me to do something,

00:12even if I'm not exactly sure what it's going to be,

00:15I was happy to sign off.

00:17And tell me a little bit about your character.

00:20What can you reveal to Beetlejuice fans?

00:24Listen, they should see the movie.

00:26I don't want to tell them what it is,

00:27but basically, I've said it before,

00:30I'm basically a cop in the afterlife.

00:35But in life, before I died,

00:38I was a B-action movie star.

00:43And so this affords me the possibility

00:46to make fun of myself a little bit

00:48because, you know, the narcissism of actors,

00:53things like that, are kind of played with in this.

00:55And in your recent films,

00:57you seem to be having a lot of make-up,

00:59cool things going on, more things.

01:01Yeah, make-up, make-up, make-up.

01:02Why is that?

01:03I don't know.

01:04People want to mess me up, I guess.

01:07How long did it take?

01:08They want to throw me a curveball.

01:10It took a while because each piece is painted.

01:12And, you know, that's another one of the pleasures of the movie

01:17is all the low-tech effects.

01:19It's really handmade stuff.

01:21It's really artiginal, you know.

01:24It's not a lot of stuff that's done in post.

01:27So it's fun because it has a kind of playful,

01:30goofy aesthetic.

01:34But, yeah, it still sticks with the horror genre in some respects.

01:40Helps you get into character.

01:40Yeah.

Willem Dafoe on the "Playful, Goofy Aesthetic" of Tim Burton's 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' | THR Video

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