Willem Dafoe hallucination. The cameo was suggested by Dafoe, comparing it to the ghost of Hamlet's father visiting his son to ask him to avenge his death. Dafoe was next seen in the comedy-drama "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004), his first of three films with director Wes Anderson. He played the "hilariously doltish" German first mate of a research vessel owned by the eponymous lead character, who is played by Bill Murray. Dafoe then had a small role as a tabloid magazine editor in Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" (2004), a biographical film about Howard Hughes starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Also in
Sigur Rós in the Cameron Crowe film "Vanilla Sky". The former two also subsequently appeared in the US version of the television series "Queer as Folk". Their music has also appeared in the TV series "24" with "Ný batterí", and "" with "Svefn-g-englar". In 2004, Wes Anderson used "Starálfur" in "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" as did the Emmy-winning 2005 TV film "The Girl in the Café". In Enki Bilal's "Immortel (Ad Vitam)" the song "Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm)" is used. The song "Svefn-g-englar" was also used on "V" on 24 November 2009, and features prominently in "Café de Flore"