Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're talking about the man with a thousand-watt smile, William Defoe.

Now, I want to underline this.

He was born in Wisconsin in 1955 as William James Defoe.

I'm going to say William DeFoe.

Throughout this episode.

And he said in interviews he changed his name because he didn't like being called Billy.

And his dad was also called William.

So he didn't want to have that, you know, two names in the same family.

Well, I only found this out like last year. And you were furious. I wish he was here right now so I could punch him in the same family well i only found this out like last year and you were

furious i wish he was here right now so i could punch him in the jaw for having driven us down

this this madness of willem for all these years do you think he corrects people when they call

him william he probably just lets it go i think he probably lets it go no just smiles and odds but

anyway william defoe look he's a popular highly respected actor and if anything I think he probably lets it go. Probably just smiles and nods. But anyway, Willem Defoe, look, he's a popular, highly

respected actor, and if anything, I think he's underrated.

Is he a popular actor in that my parents or people that are not like movie people would

recognize him if they saw them? Oh, I think so. He may not be a box office drop. He's like top tier character actor,

if you will, in blockbusters or bigger films. And leading man in smaller films. But I mean,

you look at his filmography. First of all, I think he has maybe the best filmography of any actor

at his level. I mean, it covers the waterfront from

wild at heart to Last Temptation of Christ to Antichrist to Spider-Man, you know, everything from

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