The 1963 performance that has always reassured Willem Dafoe’s self-doubt: “It worked fantastically”
Works every time.
Burt Lancaster
The one actor Kirk Douglas was always jealous of: “I like certain qualities I wish I had”
Thin line between friendship and envy.
The movie that inspired Morgan Freeman to wear an earring: “I thought that was sexy”
Classic pirate fashion.
How one performance inspired Willem Dafoe’s unpredictable career: “It worked fantastically”
This performance rewired a young Dafoe’s brain.
Why Burt Lancaster kept trying to murder his best friend: “Who cares if he tried to kill me?”
Remarkably, they remained close.
Hear Me Out: ‘The Swimmer’ is Burt Lancaster’s most underrated performance
A haunting tale of masculine ideals.
The only actors who refused to work with John Wayne: “He asked a him a couple of times”
Not many turned down ‘The Duke’.
The movie Burt Lancaster hated starring in: “I did that thing under great duress”
A film known as ‘the poor man’s Casablanca’.
Aquatic masterpieces: The five best movie swimming pool scenes
Dive into these glasses of liquid cinema.
The Oscar-winning smash hit Burt Lancaster called “the biggest piece of junk ever made”
By virtually every metric, he was dead wrong.