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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Asia Pacific World Search Search: Dafoe says 'Antichrist' most challenging role ever AFP - Tuesday, May 19 CANNES, France (AFP) - - US actor Willem Dafoe has admitted his role in the Danish thriller "Antichrist", which caused a scandal at its Cannes premiere, was one of the most challenging of his career. ADVERTISEMENT Dafoe plays opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg in Lars Von Trier's film about love and madness, littered with graphic close-ups of sex and mutilation, which stunned critics and festival-goers on the Riviera. "It's clearly one of the most testing roles that I've had," the 53-year-old actor told AFP in an interview. In the film, Dafoe plays a psychotherapist who takes his wife to a log cabin retreat to help her overcome her grief at their baby's death, but instead is dragged with her into a crazed escalation of violence. Both actors have said they were deeply affected by making the film, which was shot without any rehearsals, and whose climax shows Gainsbourg's character slicing off her clitoris. Dafoe, whose character's ordeals include having his genitals smashed with a plank, and his leg hand-drilled and bolted to a millstone, said there was an "intense physical and emotional atmosphere" on the film set. "There was very little conversation, because the stuff was very difficult, not just for the intimacy more for its emotionality and physically it was very difficult." Von Trier, who won a Palme d'Or in Cannes for "Dancer in the Dark" in 2000, shot the film as a form of therapy after a mental breakdown, and says it is the most important of his career. Dafoe said he loved Von Trier's company, but that the director's fragile state of mind permeated the atmosphere in which they made the film. "He struggles, so everything was depending on how Lars was feeling, so there was always a sensitivity, that sometimes extended to Charlotte and I." The actor approached Von Trier to suggest working together, and said he was immediately convinced by the script for "Antichrist." "I loved how he put very formal things next to very loose things. Some shots were very composed and very exact... and he had stuff with just actors, with a script, but in a very loose fashion, doing these intimate things." "He was like 'Would you like to do it ?' and I, 'I would love to do it' and him: 'My wife doesn't think you'll do it!' He knows how to provoke." Dafoe also defended Von Trier against charges of misogynism -- one of the accusations levelled after its shock screening in Cannes. "I understand why some people say that but what they do is interpreting the story, they aren't talking about the story. The story talks about interesting things between men and women. "Lars identifies with that female character, he's that woman, he's not my character. He's hard on himself, he's hard on my character. Underneath the sarcasm and irony, he said the Danish director was "a very loving guy, who's interested in the tension between men and women and I am too. "It does exist, and to not talk about it and pretend like it's all one big happy family and there's no fear between the sexes I think is repression. "Now I think he's talking about something uncomfortable and I think people are going to take what they will from it. "His business is to make the most beautiful story he can. He's giving his life for this stuff, no one gives him credit for that." 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