Stellan Skarsgård is without doubt one of the most revered actors on the planet. That’s the reason it’s a little bit of a shock that the journeyman worldwide star from Sweden is barely now at this second getting nominated for an Oscar. Already a winner of the European Movie Award and his second Golden Globe (the primary got here in TV for Chernobyl) this season, Skarsgård can be up for his first Oscar in Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth. He was nominated for Finest Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a famed movie director who has seen higher days and is on the lookout for a giant comeback, with a script during which he has written a starring function for his estranged actress-daughter. She desires no a part of the script — or him.
The 73-year-old Skarsgård — father of sufficient actors to place him within the winners circle if they’re all members of the Academy — is well-known to moviegoers by means of his memorable appearances in such movie franchises as Dune, Thor, Mamma Mia, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lady With the Dragon Tattoo and numerous others. His acclaimed performances have included Breaking the Waves, Good Will Searching, The Hunt For Pink October, Dogville (one in every of many collaborations with Lars von Trier) and too many others to checklist right here. However we discuss a lot of them as he joins me for this new episode of my Deadline video collection The Actor’s Facet.
We additionally talk about if he’ll seem in sequels to Mamma Mia! and Dune 3; how he has produced such a well-known household of actors; and the impact a 2022 stroke had on his potential to maintain performing and making motion pictures in a singular means.
To observe our dialog and get the “actor’s aspect” of issues from Stellan Skarsgård, watch the video above.
