'It's not a normal role,' Dafoe says of his undead detective, Wolf Jackson.
The Spider-Man star plays undead detective Wolf Jackson in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice , Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel to the 1988 original. In life, Jackson was a B-movie action star best known for playing a movie cop character named Frank Hardballer; in death, Dafoe's character takes method acting to the next level — and the Neitherworld — as the head of the Afterlife Crimes Unit.
"It's not a normal role," Dafoe told Empire Magazine, which revealed a new look at the character, below, exposed brains and all."The most important thing for me was to find the tone. It had to be rooted but it also had to be free enough that you could play with it." In playing off Keaton's Betelgeuse, also pictured in Jackson's office, Dafoe said,"I take my cue off of him. You take your cue off of the world.
"I play a police officer in the afterlife, so I'm a dead person. And in life I was a B-movie action star, but I had an accident and that's what sent me to the other side," Dafoe explained."But because of my skills, I became a detective character in the afterlife. So that's my job. But it's colored by the fact of who I was : a B-movie action star.
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