Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

I am very excited for you to pull up a chair this week for my conversation

with the great Willem Defoe.

When I say his name, an image pops into your face of a man, of an actor, of a movie you love.

He's been in more than 140 of them.

He's been nominated for four Academy Awards, and the range is from things like platoon, which made him famous around the world.

1986 film by Oliver Stone for which Defoe was nominated for an Oscar,

but also Green Goblin, where in the Spider-Man movie, he played the villain,

joining the Marvel Universe and becoming internationally famous.

Movies like Finding Nemo, his voice is in that. I mean the guy can do it all.

He's been in seven movies that will appear this year alone. The guy is incredibly

prolific and what you get from sitting and talking with him is that he just

loves the job and loves the work.

His latest movie is getting tons of talk, tons of critical acclaim, award season nominations.

It is called Poor Things.

It is directed by a man named Yorgos Lanthemos,

who did the favorite and other films that just look

and feel so different and so distinctive.

Emma Stone stars in this one along with Willem Defoe.

I'm not even going to try to explain the premise to you.

You just have to let him explain it, see if you can picture it, and frankly just go see it to understand

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