Willem Dafoe had Emma Stone slap him 20 times while filming ‘And’

Actor Willem Dafoe is completely dedicated to his craft.exist and Dafoe shocked everyone with his commitment to authenticity.

Most famously for Marvel supervillain Norman Osborn, Dafoe asked co-star Emma Stone to slap him 20 times in the face to make it look more real, actor reveals New York Times.

“That’s what you want from an actor,” director Yorgos Lanthimos says of Dafoe, even when he’s not on camera. “Want to be involved in any way.”

talking about the event la la land Actress Emma Stone said:

“A lot of actors have this acting instinct—’Look at me, look at me!’ A performer.”

“He’s the exact opposite. Maybe it’s changed over the years. A lot of the actors I’m related to have been doing it for a long time, you know they’ve gone from ‘me’ to ‘we’.

Dafoe also detailed how his relationship with acting has changed over time. “Once you start working, you use it as a means of survival,” Dafoe said.

“Then…it becomes like a spiritual thing—finding your connection to everything.”

And no release date has been announced, nor has the film’s plot been revealed. Dafoe and Stone are also another feature of Lanthimos, part of the Victorian style poor thing.