Willem Dafoe stars in short film about gappy teeth and it's strangely alluring
It's billed as 'a self-study of the acting icon's "air cooled" teeth'
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Your support makes all the difference.Willem Dafoe has long been an actor easily decipherable for both his intense performances and his gap-toothed smile.
Now rather bizarrely, the actor - star of such films as Platoon, Spider-Man and Antichrist - has starred in a 2 minute 42 second short about those very teeth - and it's named Mind the Gap.
"People have suggested I fix them but I like my gaps," he says, staring directly into the camera.
Grigoriy Dobrygin - who met Dafoe shooting John le Carré adaptation A Most Wanted Man - is the actor/director behind the film which has sold for over $100,000 million for children's charity auction, Action!
Within the short's running time, Dafoe describes the techniques he uses to utilise both his physical trait as well as his past ambition to 'widen the gaps.'
The actor was recently cast in upcoming DC mash-up Justice League as a 'good guy' - no other details are known about his character. He'll star alongside JK Simmons, both actors of whom starred in Sam Raimi's debut Spider-Man film back in 2002.
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