"It's a huge character in the movie."ĭafoe, who's made a career of taking roles at both ends of the movie spectrum, in both independent films and blockbusters, says that there isn't a lot that's different from playing a character like Martin in The Hunter and Tars Tarkus, a nine-foot-tall alien warrior in John Carter. "There are huge sequences where I'm just in the nature of Tasmania, which is quite wild, quite unspoiled, for the most part," he says. The Hunter was filmed in Tasmania, and Dafoe says the Australian island setting played an important role in the film. The thought that it still survives, that there is still one out in the wilderness, lives in the people's minds." "It's so potent a symbol for the people of Tasmania - and the people of Australia - because it was basically hunted into extinction by the colonists. "I had to look on the internet for more information when I read the script," Dafoe tells NPR's Rachel Martin. Dafoe admits he didn't know much about the Tasmanian tiger before the film.
The animal has been declared extinct, but throughout the film, townspeople whisper, even boast about recent sightings. Willem Dafoe is having a busy spring at the cineplex: he's had roles in the sci-fi epic John Carter and in the apocalyptic drama 4:44: Last Day On Earth - and in the new eco-thriller The Hunter, Dafoe plays a mercenary hired by a mysterious biotech company trying to track the untrackable: a Tasmanian tiger. In The Hunter, Willem Dafoe plays a stoic mercenary hired to hunt the last remaining Tasmanian tiger.
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