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Willem Dafoe plays a billionaire Onassis figure in The Birthday Party

Grant St. Clair
Apr 27, 2026
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If there’s one working actor I love, it’s Willem Dafoe, whose willingness to say yes to seemingly any role and then give that role two hundred and ten percent is extremely admirable. Such is the case with the upcoming The Birthday Party, a fairly obscure film adaptation of a fairly obscure novel that, to be honest, probably wouldn’t be on my radar if it…

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