Is it one down, two up?'īy the time the moment of truth rolled around, Dafoe still didn't know the back end of a motorcycle from the front. Dafoe told GQ, 'I don't want to lose the part, so they say, have you ever ridden a motorcycle? O course, classically, what does an actor do? They lie.' He was eventually found out when shooting began and he was called upon to ride a '1955 big Harley hog.' He scrambled to find someone to teach him before he started filming, without any success: 'That's before the internet, so I'm going to the library to get a book on how to shift.
