{
  "id": 183492,
  "title": "Willem Dafoe on Playing a Poet in ‘Late Fame’ and Working With Robert Eggers and Yorgos Lanthimos: ‘If I Give Myself to a Director, I Want It to Burn Hot’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/willem-dafoe-on-playing-a-poet-in-late-fame-and-working-with-robert",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-05T17:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/features/willem-dafoe-robert-eggers-yorgos-lanthimos-late-fame-1236824363/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Willem Dafoe is in the midst of a massive year — and he’s playing a character whose life is small by design. In director Kent Jones’ “Late Fame” (out Aug. 7 in New York and Aug. 19 in Los Angeles and other cities), Dafoe plays Ed Saxberger, a postal employee who, in his youth, had […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}