Willem Dafoe says he once wore the clothes of a stylist, photographer, and makeup artist at a magazine photo shoot because he was given 'terrible' options

• Willem Dafoe spoke to GQ Hype about being asked to wear "terrible" clothes for a photo shoot.
• Dafoe said he asked to wear the clothes of the stylist, photographer, and makeup artist instead.

Willem Dafoe said that he disliked the clothes picked out for him for a photo shoot so much that he asked to wear the clothes of the crew members on the set.

"The clothes were so terrible, I said 'I can't do any of this,'" the actor recalled in a new interview with GQ Hype.

Dafoe's interviewer, Ben Allen, wrote that the "Spider-Man: No Way Home" star noticed the "very distinct" styles of the stylist, photographer, and makeup artist working on the set of the photo shoot and asked them for a favor.

"I said, let me wear all of your clothes," Dafoe said. "And they let me do it. So they took off their clothes, I put them on, and those were the clothes for the shoot."

Dafoe, a veteran actor who's starred in numerous movies since the 1980s, has experienced a resurgence of popularity.

In recent months, he's starred in films like "The French Dispatch," "The Card Counter," and "Nightmare Alley."

But his return as Green Goblin/Norman Osborn in "Spider-Man: No Way Home," nearly two decades after he played the same villain in Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man," has seemingly contributed to the latest wave of adoration.

Since the Marvel movie's release on December 17, fans have been praising the actor's performance. People on social media have also reshared their favorite images of Dafoe from previous photos shoots.

In December, a video in which Dafoe was asked to describe his outfit after being recognized on a street in New York City went viral on TikTok and Twitter.

"I wasn't wearing anything special," Dafoe told GQ Hype of the moment. "It was, you know, a nice little social encounter."