Pedro Pascal heaps praise on ‘greatest American actor’ Willem Dafoe

The Independent

Pedro Pascal describes Willem Dafoe as ‘greatest American actor in our lifetime’PA Giada Colagrande, Mark Ruffalo, Guillermo Del Toro, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, Entertainment/Movies, indytv, culture, acting, actors, performance,

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00:00 I was generously provided with talking points addressing Willem's incredible achievements,

00:05 all of them true, but nothing can really match up to the man, the artist, the friend.

00:13 Willem has shown me in the earliest stages of my development that there is

00:18 no one way to create a character, to steal a scene, to terrify, to seduce,

00:25 to make people laugh and to be a leading man. I'm going to go off book just for a second. I saw

00:31 Platoon in the movie theater with my father and he made me cry so hard my dad sent me to the bathroom.

00:39 This was 1986. I was like 10 years old and I still wanted to be an actor.

00:45 So one word-for-word talking point I got from the people here.

00:53 It said Willem has been called one of the greatest American actors in our lifetime.

00:58 I'll call him that. I'll go as far as to say he is the greatest American actor in our lifetime.

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