WILLEM DAFOE

I actually watched Platoon when I was like ten - someone had rented it and I had never heard of it, but "Ooh, a Best Picture winner, and it's about Vietnam, which I know nothing of!" Man, was that traumatizing. But I loved Dafoe in it and made what happened to his character all the more horrifying.

I love him in Wes Anderson's movies, he was great with so many non-professionals in The Florida Project. I still need to see New Rose Hotel, but otherwise Last Temptation is probably my favorite lead role from him. I wish he did more with Scorsese - I think his only other appearance in his work was a cameo in The Aviator.

*and he was great with so many non-professionals in Sean Baker's