Willem Dafoe was once mistaken for a sex worker while dancing in a hula skirt for a theater piece: 'They thought we were, like, a strippergram and then some!'
never forget came early in his career in the world of avant-garde theater., Dafoe told a salacious story about the time that he and his fellow performers were mistaken for strippers... and more.
Explaining that early in his career, he staged a number of experimental theater pieces with The Wooster Group in downtown Manhattan. The actor said that the troupe "needed to do something light and easy" after his former romantic partner and director, Elizabeth LeCompte, mourned the death of her father.
"The gag was, to make it stick, under our grass skirts, we weren't wearing anything, so it was two men and a woman, and she was also not wearing anything, and bare-breasted," the actor explained. "So we did this show, it was very popular, it was a little chamber piece, but very popular." Dafoe and his castmates were invited to a party to perform a single number from the piece. "They offered us, like, I can't remember, like a thousand bucks apiece, and at that time, we were all really poor, [so] that was like 'wow! Yeah, we can do that.' So we went to this party, y'know… we got dressed in the toilet, and then we came out without the set, only with the music, and with our non-costumes, and we did this dance.
"Yeah!" Dafoe confirmed. "And at the end, people started coming up and saying, 'okay, let's go! Come with me!'" implying that the guests thought Dafoe's services might continue beyond his performance. "They thought we were, like, a strippergram and
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