Willem Dafoe Had “Fun” Playing Green Goblin In Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’

It seems that Willem Dafoe has fond memories of being in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man film as he apparently had a lot of fun playing the part of Green Goblin.

During a recent interview, Willem Dafoe reflected back on being in the groundbreaking superhero film. He talked a bit about how there wasn’t a blueprint for making such a move at the time:

Sam Raimi did a miracle thing. He made kind of a personal film out of a fairly big-sized, partly effect movie. It was early in the game of movies from comic books, that sort of thing, so there was no template.

He then talked about the double role of Norman Osborne and the Green Goblin and how some of the scenes made him laugh in retrospect:

I loved in Spider-Man particularly playing the double role. Everybody thinks about the Green Goblin, and that was fun, but the more interesting role was probably the father, Norman Osborn. Because you could play these scenes where it would switch from comedy to drama in a line.

There’s a couple of scenes that still make me laugh, because they’re so double-edged, and they go back and forth between being really heavy and really kind of silly. And the movie is filled with that.

You can see the full interview below:

From the look of things, Willem Dafoe had a lot of fun with Spider-Man but may have enjoyed playing Norman Osborne more than the Green Goblin himself.

What do you all make of this interview? Did you like Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin? What do you all think of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films? Let us know what you think in the comments below!

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