-Willem Dafoe, they love you.
Thanks for coming back on the show.
-Yeah, my pleasure. -You look good.
What is the look? -I don't look good.
-No, you do look good. -This is for a movie.
It's not for life.
[ Laughter ] I look in the mirror
and I see Joe Stalin.
[ Laughter ] -No! -Yeah.
When I look to the side,
I see a '70s biker. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ] -But that's not what it's for.
-You've never grown facial hair just for fun?
-No, I have, but, you know, it's kind of a drag.
When I was younger, when you grew hair
for a role, it was something special.
Now, it's in vogue, you know... -Oh, yeah.
-...and it's almost cooler to be cleanshaven.
-Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah.
[ Laughter ] That's why I do it. -I don't go for the beard
on you. -Yeah. You didn't go for it?
-No, no, no, no. -I tried to do the beard.
I just figured I never tried it.
I never actually tried it and really meant to try it.
-It looked good, but it ain't you.
[ Laughter ] -Ah. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate that.
Thank you very much. I like that.
I tried it and it wasn't me. Yeah. -No.
-No. This is more me, yeah. -Yeah.
-But you can be a chameleon.
You can do this. You can do that.
You're always different in all the looks.
But you're always looking good because you're a movie star.
-Thank you. -Last time we were on the show,
we talked about "Spider-Man" and now, it's made over,
you know, $150 billion, something crazy-amazing.
But we all love you as Green Goblin.
-Great. -Fan favorite. Everyone loves you.
-Great. Yeah. Yeah, of course.
[ Cheering and applause ]
But -- -But...
-But there is a thing going around online
that I was looking at that everyone wants you
to play a different -- They want you to play Joker.
[ Oohs ] -Hasn't that been done?
-No, but, but I mean, but --
-You know, talk to Warner Bros.
[ Laughter ] -Really? I'll talk to Warner Bros.
Are you guys watching? Yeah. Hello.
-I floated an idea a while ago, but it didn't quite happen, so.
-What was the idea? Can you say it, or no?
-Ah... You know, I -- -You can't?
-Listen, I didn't really float it to them.
I just mentioned it in an interview
and then it kind of went out on the Internet.
But I thought it would be cool for me to play an impostor,
like slipstreaming his thing.
-Oh, yeah, like, "I'm the new Joker. I'm Joker."
Yeah. And Joaquin could be like, "Oh, yeah?"
I love this! -It would be cool.
-Yes, you could do that! -But we're doing --
[ Cheering and applause ] we're doing --
we're doing other things. -Yeah, you're doing
other things. Things are going okay.
Yeah. You know, it's award season now
and I know you've been nominated for how many Oscars, now?
-Four. -Yeah. No big deal. Yeah.
[ Cheering and applause ]
[ Whistling ]
Do you remember the first time
you got nominated for an Oscar?
-The first time I remember really well
because it wasn't as developed,
you know, the campaigning and all that sort of thing
and my son's babysitter called me up
to tell me I was nominated.
[ Laughter ]
I mean, and by the time --
the second time, you know,
you could barely sleep the night before
because you were aware that the nominations were coming out.
So, it's become much more developed.
-What was it for, "Platoon"? Was that the first one?
-First one was "Platoon."
Second one was for something called "Shadow of the Vampire."
Third was for "Florida Project"
and fourth was for "At Eternity's Gate."
-And do you get nervous when you --
Because now you're nominated and you go, "Okay,"
and you go like, "[ Exhales forcefully ] I got a shot.
I can, you know." And is it fun?
-You know, it becomes a game
and you do, you know, you do your best
to throw your hat in the ring and try to win.
If you're competitive, it's kind of fun.
But, you know, it's -- I'll say it, I'll say it.
You're going to hear it.
It's nice to be nominated. -There you go.
[ Cheering and applause ] You actually said it.
[ Laughter ]
He actually said it. Good!
But I think it must be fun.
-But that's not happening this year, so let's --
-Next year. Next year, it's happening.
I want to talk about your new movie, "Inside."
It's a psychological drama and it's pretty much you
on the screen for two hours, almost,
and you're fantastic in it. You're getting great reviews.
I don't know if you want to hear them...
-Alright, go ahead. -...but I'm going to say them.
[ Laughter ] -I'll go like this.
-Yeah, perfect. Deadline says,
"Willem Dafoe delivers a tour de force performance."
[ Cheering and applause ] Tour de force. Ooh, French!
-Oui oui. -Collider says,
"Everything is glued together
by another Dafoe performance that proves he's one
of the greatest actors of all time."
[ Cheering and applause ] Not too shabby! Come on!
-Thank you very much!
Thank you. -That is not too shabby.
Oh, yeah, I have this here. How --
[ Laughter ]
Yeah, I found these. I forgot I had them.
[ Laughter ] -You --
-Here you go. Yeah.
How --
[ Cheering and applause ]
I feel I could play your -- -Yeah.
-I could play your brother. -Yeah.
I can play your brother in the movie.
-Yeah! -Right?
Come on down. -Yeah.
We'll go work on it together.
Can we set up the premise of this movie?
-Sure, yeah. This premise is great
and it's really simple. For once.
[ Laughter ] You know, I play an art thief
that is breaking into a penthouse in New York.
This place has a lot of priceless art
and I hack into the security system.
I go to take three Egon Schiele paintings.
I go there, I get in, I'm ready to go, I hack out,
and the system goes awry and closes me in.
-Yeah, the alarms go off. -And nobody comes.
I'm stuck there. The cops don't come.
The owner doesn't come.
All the smart systems in the house
of this real high-tech house go wacky
and I got to survive there
and I don't know when I'm ever going to get out.
And the guy hasn't been there for a while,
so, I got to deal with food. I got to deal with water.
And then, with time,
I start to deal with the art and deal with being there.
And it's interesting because there's a very strong
narrative plotline
of he's got to deal with these things
and you kind of figure it out with him.
But at the same time,
there's lots of interesting things that are raised
about our relationship to art and luxury
and what we need and what's important.
So, it's pretty cool because it works on,
at least, two levels. -Yeah, yeah.
[ Laughter ] I will say, when I was watching, I would go,
"What would I do if I was in that position?"
-Well, yeah, that's what happens.
-And everyone bails on you,
everyone who planned it out, and you go --
-Well, you got to deal -You're by yourself.
-with yourself, you know?
you got to deal with yourself
and you got to figure out what you need, that's all.
-You guys got to watch this. It's great.
I want to show a clip. Here's Willem Dafoe in "Inside."
Take a look at this.
-Go to Tompkins Square Park.
Look for a guy named Danny Z.
He's usually near the basketball courts.
[Indistinct]
Tell him that I'm stuck here.
No one's come.
-[ Warbling ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Wind whipping ] [ Tap ]
[ Tap ]
[ Tapping ] Do that for me.
[ Cheering and applause ] -Whoa!
Come on!
Whoo!
Willem Dafoe, everybody!
Go see "Inside," in theaters March 17th.
Marlon Wayans joins us after the break.
Stick around, everybody.