Willem Dafoe explains why he pronounces his name differently

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentA video called How To Pronounce Willem Dafoe is number three on YouTube's U.S. trending chart, with more than twenty million views.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentIt leans on an old tape that Conan O'Brien's team calls Willem Dafoe Pronounced His Name Wrong, captioned nineteen seventy-five.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentIn it, he says it the original way.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNineteen seventy-five is also the year he founded The Wooster Group, an experimental theatre company. So I'd say the name was part of the work.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentYou're saying it was a bit.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI'm saying nobody in experimental theatre has ever just said a word. Now it's duh-FOE, and the old way is a first draft.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentTwenty million people have now watched the rehearsal. Nobody has asked for the tickets.