After 45 years of acting, Willem Dafoe says he's "looking to be disturbed" by new roles as The Man in My Basement approaches: "I'm looking to tap into a sense of wonder"

Willem Dafoe and Corey Hawkins in The Man in My Basement.

After 45 years in the acting game, Willem Dafoe says he's looking for something of an otherworldly experience when taking on new roles. In The Man in My Basement, he plays a seemingly harmless man who slowly edges into one who is capable of psychological torture.

"I'm looking to have an adventure. I'm looking to be disturbed. I'm looking to tap into a sense of wonder," Dafoes tells GamesRadar+. "Something that takes me away from my conditioned thinking or learning something. You know, you learn something and then you become a new person. You know, life is reenergized."