Willem Dafoeis missing the good ole days.

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Dafoe also groused that studios “aren’t making movies the same way they used to.

Streaming, they’re becoming like a monopoly, they have the means of production and distribution.

Willem Dafoe

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And so it’s very complicated.”

But, he said, “I just noticed that there’s been a proliferation of middlemen.

There aren’t ballsy producers like there used to be.

They’re a little harder to find.”

His upcoming screen projects includeBeetlejuice 2andNosferatu,the latter of which reunites him withThe LighthouseandThe Northmandirector Robert Eggers.

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