Willem Dafoe had to wear a cloak, ride in cars with tinted windows, and avoid going out in public to keep his 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' role a secret
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Olivia Singh
Jan 15, 2022, 04:14 IST
On the left: Willem Dafoe at the premiere of "Spider-Man: No Way Home." On the right: Dafoe as Green Goblin in "Spider-Man: No Way Home."ordan Strauss/Invision/AP; Sony Pictures
Willem Dafoe spoke about his involvement in "Spider-Man: No Way Home" in a new interview.
Dafoe said he had to wear a cloak and ride in cars with tinted windows to keep his role a secret.
"When I'd go to set, they'd put me in a black cloak and always have me in a car with dark windows and they didn't want me hanging out any place because they didn't want anyone to know I was in town making a movie," Dafoe said during a virtual appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Thursday.
"And I didn't think it would work, but actually, it did," added Dafoe, who played the iconic villain in Sam Raimi's Spidey trilogy released between 2002 and 2007.
"And only just before the movie was released, they started kind of hinting [at] things in the trailers," he said. "So, it was cool."
The first trailer for "Spider-Man: No Way Home," which marks Tom Holland's sixth appearance as the titular Marvel web-slinger, was released in August.
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The trailer showed how visitors from other universes enter Holland's world after a spell cast by Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), intended to make everyone forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, goes wrong.
The second trailer, released three months later, showed Holland's Spidey also coming face-to-face with Rhys Ifans' Lizard from "The Amazing Spider-Man," Jamie Foxx's Electro from "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," and Thomas Haden Church's Sandman from Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man 3."
"I just sort of bumped into this guy in a cloak and was like, 'Watch out, mate,'" Holland said. "He took his hood off and I almost got really scared. I was like, 'Oh shit. The Goblin's here.'"
Since the film's release on December 17, fans have praised Dafoe's performance, with some saying that he outdid his performance from nearly two decades prior.
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