With two films under his belt, Eggers has been assembling a talented troupe of actors he prefers working with, and Dafoe is clearly a part of that group given his past performance in The Lighthouse. Dafoe has long been fan-casted as The Joker, and with this role as a court jester coming up, the tantalizing thought of Dafoe as Gotham's Clown Prince of Crime in a future Batman film will likely continue to lurk in audiences' minds. Though his The Northman character doesn't appear to be a villain per se, it will surely be an entertaining performance considering Dafoe's penchant for playing eccentric characters. This look at Dafoe's next role comes as he is still fresh off a pair of menacing performances in both Nightmare Alley and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
