Adam Howard
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 7 Jul
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The New Yorker Radio Hour · Christmas in Tehran During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis · 24 Dec 2024
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And I'm sure he maybe would have used it for propaganda purposes.
So speaking of American television, when you came back, obviously there was quite a lot of press coverage, quite infamously in our family memories. You appeared on the Donahue show. What are your memories of that in terms of what the reception was when you came back? It was virtually every major outlet.
I wonder, when you reflect back on this, what do you think about what took place and did this experience in any way change your perspective on the holiday of Christmas?
That's my father, M. William Howard Jr., the former president of the National Council of Churches. He went on to be active in the anti-apartheid movement, became president of the New York Theological Seminary, and grandfather to my two adorable daughters. That's the New Yorker Radio Hour for today. Thank you for listening. David Remnick will be back next week.
We had help this week from Aaron Dalton.
Along with Fergus McIntosh and the heroic team of fact-checkers at The New Yorker. Victor Guan is our art director. And Diego Malo created many of the illustrations on our website. Fabio Bertone provides legal review.
Kenya Young is the Senior Vice President at New York Public Radio. The New Yorker Radio Hour is supported in part by the Cherena Endowment Fund.
The Catholic Church was made for this moment. I think 2,000 years ago, the Catholic Church basically anticipated TikTok, Instagram, X. You don't have those little Swiss guard outfits and think they're not being photographed. Oil painting is not enough.
This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm Adam Howard. I'm a producer on the show, and I'm filling in for David Remnick this week. Willem Dafoe is one of the most versatile actors working in Hollywood. He's played everything from Jesus Christ to the Green Goblin.
He also has one of the most distinctive faces and voices in movies, which has been deployed to great effect in blockbusters and smaller indie darlings. Dafoe's most recent project is the highly anticipated vampire film Nosferatu, It's his third movie with the director Robert Eggers, who's known for his ambitious and meticulously researched genre movies, like The Witch and The Northman.
In Nosferatu, Willem Dafoe plays the vampire hunter. So he's a good guy, but with a shadowy disposition.
I spoke to Willem Dafoe about his acting philosophy and his work with the visionary director Robert Eggers. I should start by telling you I just recently showed my three-year-old fantastic Mr. Fox, and your performance left quite an impression on her. As the rat? Yeah, the rat.
She was like, why is he carrying a knife? It's one of those three-year-old questions that I'm like, there's really no good answer to that. He's just a little menacing. But I'm curious, in your experience, do you find that people have a hard time disassociating you from the roles that you play?
You have one of the most, I think, enviable track records in terms of working with directors. You've worked with David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Catherine Bigelow, Wes Anderson. I can go on and on and on. Robert Eggers, this is now your third collaboration with him.
I wonder if you could speak about what's unique and special about your relationship with really filmmakers in general, like how you approach working with directors, but also how does Robert Eggers sort of fit in the pantheon of people you've worked with?
In Nosferatu, you play Professor von Franz, who's sort of like the Van Helsing type figure. This is a very iconic vampire hunter character. We've seen different iterations of this type of character. What was your kind of approach to making this character your own and trying to make it fresh for you? I...
Some of the beats of the story may be familiar, which might be some of the fun of the film. I'm wondering what your thoughts are on why revisit this material now.
That was Lily Rose Depp in Nosferatu, which opens on Christmas Day. I'll continue my conversation with Willem Dafoe in a moment.
And wound up killing 20, 30,000 people or so before it was over with.
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