Willem Dafoe talks '4:44,' 'The Hunter'

Willem Dafoe has played Jesus and the Green Goblin, so he's no stranger to difficult roles. But few actors could credibly handle the trio of challenges that faced the 56-year-old veteran in his wildly different new films.

In "John Carter," the adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "A Princess of Mars" now in theaters, Dafoe donned stilts and a motion-capture suit to play a giant Martian.

In "4:44 Last Day on Earth," opening Friday, Dafoe and Shanyn Leigh play a couple spending the last hours before the end of the world alone in their Lower East Side loft.

Finally, in "The Hunter," opening April 6, Dafoe plays a mercenary tasked with a solo journey into the Tasmanian wilderness, where he's sent to track down the last Tasmanian tiger.

amNewYork spoke with the veteran actor.