Willem Dafoe on Heading the Venice Biennale Theater Department and His Mission to ‘Concentrate on the Body and the Poetry That It Can Express’

Willem Dafoe is at the Venice Film Festival wearing two hats: he’s among the stars playing in the fest’s opener, Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” but he’s also busy at work as recently appointed artistic director of the theater department at the Venice Biennale, the fest’s multidisciplinary parent organization. Dafoe spoke to Variety about how he’s […]