An Illuminating Conversation With The Man Who Was Willem Dafoe's Stunt Penis | Defector
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An Illuminating Conversation With The Man Who Was Willem Dafoe's Stunt Penis | Defector
"Willem Dafoe's penis is said to be extra-large. It is allegedly so big, in fact, that after filming nude scenes in the 2009 film Antichrist, Lars von Trier reported that he needed to re-shoot them using a different actor. "He has an enormous dick," the director told The Boston Phoenix while promoting the film. "We had to take those scenes out of the film." Here came the kicker: When Dafoe's penis was on screen, said von Trier, "everybody got very confused when they saw it"."
"His name is Horst Stramka. After some initial confusion about why I would want to write about this, Stramka called me and we had an amiable chat. Has anyone ever interviewed him about this before, I asked. No, he said. Stramka, who is now 63, is a German actor who has appeared in more than 1,000 porn films, where he is generally known as "Horst Baron.""
"A German company got in touch with him to ask if he would be, as he put it, "all right to bring my penis in the scene." Stramka, who had been doing porn for about 15 years, replied, "Come on, this is my job." There doesn't seem to have been an audition process, and Stramka found himself on the set of a very different kind of film altogether, paid 900 Euros a day for having considerably less sex than he would normally."
A longstanding rumor claimed Willem Dafoe had an extraordinarily large penis, prompting director Lars von Trier to remove or re-shoot nude scenes in the 2009 film Antichrist because viewers were confused when Dafoe's genitalia appeared. The visible genitalia in those scenes belonged to Horst Stramka, a 63-year-old German porn actor widely known as Horst Baron who appeared in more than 1,000 adult films. Stramka held a variety of prior jobs, was contacted by a German company to serve as a body double, spent multiple days on set, and received payment of 900 Euros per day.
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