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Willem Dafoe Brushes Aside Trump Question: ‘You Gotta Be Kidding Me’

The “Nosferatu” and “Poor Things” star previously gave a pointed answer about American politics in the MAGA era.

Willem Dafoe swatted away a question about President Donald Trump’s America eight years after saying he feared the country was moving in the wrong direction. The Platoon star, 70, speaking in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where he was awarded the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo award, was asked by a moderator whether he felt the U.S. was on a better track now than it had been in 2017. “You gotta be kidding me with this question, right?” he said, according to Variety. “If you know anything about me and you do, that’s not a real question.” In an appearance on Larry King Now during the first Trump administration, Dafoe said he felt there were “better people to talk about the political situation” than actors, but admitted: “I don’t think we’re going in the right direction—we’re a powerful country and I think we have a responsibility to the rest of the world.”