Poor Things

2 days ago - They need to be confident in what ... hours each day in the hair and makeup department—four hours getting extensive prosthetics applied to his face at the start of the day and two hours to get it all removed at the end....

January 3, 2024 - Baxter’s own father experimented on him, thus his mangled face (and a host of other bodily issues). That puts a different, unexpectedly emotional twist on Dr. Baxter’s journey and his bond with Bella.

February 24, 2024 - Willem Dafoe wore five silicone pieces on his face to portray Godwin Baxter. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures ... When Poor Things hair, makeup and prosthetics designer Nadia Stacey began crafting the prosthetic looks for Willem Dafoe’s Godwin ...

November 11, 2023 - When it becomes clear that Bella desires to explore the outside world for herself, Dr. Baxter is faced with the fatherly realization that he must let her go. Physically becoming Dr. Baxter was no easy feat. According to Dafoe, the makeup team would first mock up scars so that Dafoe could get a better sense of what Dr.

May 27, 2023 - That one glass thing next to him is just straight up a stomach. I'm getting the sense that this movie is one of those that achieves obfuscation through sheer chaos, even while every individual element is wildly unsubtle. ... I wonder if the stomach shaped container is for nutrients or something lol. ... Nope... don't like that. ... I fucking despise Lanthimos's work. But that's my boy right there tho ... Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at Willem Dafoe.

December 19, 2023 - Willem Dafoe plays the scarred Dr. Godwin Baxter in “Poor Things.”

July 31, 2023 - The latest image released exclusively to Empire Magazine shows Willem Dafoe in a peculiar scene, portraying his character Dr. Godwin Baxter in a kitchen surrounded by oddities and with a patchwork face resembling Frankenstein.

January 13, 2024 - Willem Dafoe: I’m not that reflective about these things because I never even made that connection. So much of this movie is very specific in its period. It’s not a horror, but it borrows some things from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story at the beginning to set things in motion and I have this hideously deformed face in it, but that’s not the meat of it.

December 17, 2023 - He knows architecture, he knows ... let's face it, it's a pretty dense and pretty exotic world, it's so beautiful, and he gives you such a specific world that when you get there you know how to enter it. Beautiful script, beautiful costumes, beautiful music — the music’s not there when you're there, but you get the idea — that's what you look for. You get a lot of help and a lot of fun things to do as an actor when you've got a director like that. Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) sitting in ...

December 12, 2023 - Read Next 'Poor Things' Review: Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos Craft a Burlesque of Guts, Gore and Delight · Sporting a latticework of facial scars, Dafoe’s Baxter gives off sinister mad-doctor vibes but also truly loves his creation, Bella.

December 15, 2023 - Willem Dafoe. ... Dafoe's distinctive face currently graces Yorgos Lanthimos’ black comedy fantasy Poor Things (in theaters now), centered on Emma Stone's Bella Baxter, a young woman who is resurrected after her death by an eccentric scientist played by Dafoe.

December 12, 2023 - And of course, the beautiful thing about the character is that ultimately he chooses the higher love, really. And that’s something I have aspirations to, too.” ... For the record, Dafoe regrets talking in some early interviews about the six hours he would spend in the makeup chair every to have extensive prosthetics applied to his face.

December 12, 2023 - Each case is different. I'll also say, Yorgos really uses his rehearsal time to make a company. During that time, we play theater games, we touch each others' faces, and we do all kinds of things to create mutual trust and confidence. We actually worked very little on the scenes themselves.

November 10, 2023 - Godwin Baxter, a lonely scientist whose disfigured face would seem most at home among a Surrealist painting collection, completing a horrific experiment: He reanimates a 30-something corpse by replacing her defunct brain with that of an unborn child.

December 8, 2023 - The combination of a curious mind and a heavily scarred face even makes Dr. Baxter look like a fusion of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s monster. But while Dafoe acknowledges that influence, he cautions against viewing his character ...

March 11, 2024 - And, when you have Willem Dafoe, you don’t want to cover his face completely. It was also important to tell the story of Dr Baxter and what his father had done to him through the scars on his face. Josh and Robin Pritchard, another prosthetic artist, applied the make-up daily and got it down to just under three hours in the end. Willem said it was six, but it must have just felt like that!’ ... Poor Things marks the second collaboration between Yorgos Lanthimos and Nadia Stacey.

December 4, 2023 - Whatever the role, Dafoe is undeniably memorable, and not just because his jagged face (exaggerated in Poor Things with prosthetics) is so unlike that of the typical Hollywood star.

January 15, 2024 - With his deep-set eyes, sharp nose and broad smile, Dafoe has depicted his share of devils, from creepy “Nosferatu” star Max Schreck in “Shadow of the Vampire” to comic-book villain the Green Goblin in “Spider-Man 2.” But he also ...