Fans desperate for ‘Joker 2’ to be based on Willem Dafoe’s pitch


The social media age has given rise to countless unexpected phenomenons, but one relatively

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recent craze we’re fully on board with is the regular outpourings of support and adulation being thrown in the direction of Willem Dafoe.

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Having made his screen debut in 1980, the actor has spent over 40 years

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establishing himself as cinema’s crown prince of bug-eyed mania, launching more memes that Morbius in the process.

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Even by his impressive standards, though, Dafoe might be in the midst of the hottest streak of his already-impressive career.

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Since the beginning of 2020, the 66 year-old has shown up in the acclaimed Nightmare Alley,

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The French Dispatch, The Card Counter, and The Northman,

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while he came perilously close to stealing the show when he returned as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man

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No Way Home, and he’s not even done with the superhero genre with Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom coming next year.

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