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That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.
Willem Dafoe
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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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