Along with his wife Giada Colagrande, Dafoe co-wrote and starred in Before It Had a Name (2005), which Colagrande directed. And the irony was by the time I became an actor, to go again to my delivery title felt like a phase identify. New York Times reviewer felt he was "amusing" in the position. The movie was excoriated by a Variety reviewer as a "wannabe haunted property tale laced with foolish sex scenes" and an "shame".