Willem Dafoe finds the warmth of 'The Florida Project'

Willem Dafoe is the very definition of a working actor with dozens of roles to his credit. Later this year he will be seen in both the superhero adventure "Justice League" and the remake of the thriller "Murder on the Orient Express," and earlier this year his voice was heard as the villain in "Death Note."

But it's the transformative performer's role in "The Florida Project" that has garnered him the most attention he has had in years, a reminder of the way in which Dafoe has often been hiding in plain sight.

In "The Florida Project," which opened Friday, Dafoe plays Bobby, the manager of a small motel along a strip of highway not