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The New Yorker / Willem Dafoe

Client: The New Yorker
Art direction: Victor Guan
Section: The New Yorker Radio Hour 12/20/25
2025

Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu”

The actor talks with Adam Howard about playing a vampire hunter in Robert Eggers’s remake of “Nosferatu.” After hundreds of vampire movies, Eggers “wanted him to be scary again.”
With David Remnick