People were giving each other the book to seduce one another." Understandably, someone gave Dafoe the novel with similar intentions. When Dafoe heard about Michael Ondaatje's novel, The English Patient, he refused to read it for months. Wisconsin-born Dafoe, 41, who has played a string of evil characters, including the criminal who is fornicated to death by Madonna in Body Of Evidence, and the evil Bobby Peru in David Lynch's Wild At Heart, was at the Berlin Film Festival to promote Anthony Minghella's highly acclaimed film, The English Patient. I'm the odd one out, the outsider," he says. "I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. The mouth is so wide, the teeth so oversized, the stare so intense.
Then he turns round, holds out his hand and grins and you simply don't know where to look. From behind, he is ordinarily trendy - faded black denims, bright blond hair tied in a pony tail. He is standing with his back to me, staring out of the window over West Berlin at night. Shocking is the word that springs to mind when you meet Willem Dafoe.
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