However, he does seem to have inherited his passion for protecting the environment from his father: Willem Dafoe has taken advantage of his status as a public figure to engage in activismlike when in 2018 he signed a letter written by actress Juliette Binoche, published by Le Monde –and signed by a total of two hundred artists (Bradley Cooper, Ethan Hawke, Ralph Fiennes, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law also joined)– and in which a call was made to world rulers to act firmly to curb climate change and prevent the collapse of biodiversity.
In the private sphere, Dafoe is a vegetarian and “I don’t eat meat because animal farms are one of the main causes of the destruction of the planet.”as he assured Foodiamo. Curiously, he himself has a farm with animals (and a garden) on the outskirts of Rome, where he lives (he has also acquired dual Italian-American nationality through his marriage to Colagrande), but he raises them not with the ambition that later his flesh is consumed, but by “pleasure in enjoying their company and giving them a good life, which may seem naive”as he explained last year to Guardian.
Thus, on his farm he has, among other animals, turkeys, chickens, sheep, goats and alpacas, something that came to light because during a visit from Mark Ruffalohis co-star in Poor creatureswho posted a photo of the two of them with a little alpaca on his social networks that instantly went viral. “They are beautiful, with each alpaca you develop a unique relationship and get to know their way of being”Dafoe said about this hobby.
Giada Colagrande and Willem Dafoe at this year’s Vanity Fair Oscar Party.Lionel Hahn/Getty Images
Returning to Giada Colagrande, the bond that unites her also extends to the professional field: in 2005, the same year they got married, the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival Before It Had a Name, directed by her and co-written and co-starring both of them. And she then she turned to direct her husband in Woman (2010) and in Father (2016), in which he shared the bill with Franco Battiato and Marina Abramović. They seem to get along well in the work environment, because They have a new collaboration pending release, Tropicwhich stars the fashionable actor of the moment, Pedro Pascal.
