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Canada News.Net
4 days ago
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- Canada News.Net
Stellan Skarsgard to be honoured with Heart of Sarajevo at Sarajevo Film Festival 2025
Washington DC [US], July 25 (ANI): Swedish acting star Stellan Skarsgard will be honoured with the prestigious Heart of Sarajevo award at the Sarajevo Film Festival in August, reported Deadline. According to the outlet, the actor is a longtime friend of the festival, as well as a curator and one of the patrons of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation, the scholarships of which were awarded at the Sarajevo Film Festival. 'The Sarajevo Film Festival remains unwavering and driven in its aim to highlight subjects of great consequence, underscored by an intense lust for life. I love going there', said Skarsgard as quoted by Deadline. The actor follows in the wake of past celebrated Sarajevo honorees who include Meg Ryan, Alexander Payne, Lynne Ramsay, Charlie Kaufman, Jesse Eisenberg, Ruben Ostlund, Mads Mikkelsen and Angelina Jolie, reported Deadline. 'It is a true honor to present the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo to Stellan Skarsgard, an actor of remarkable depth, strength, and integrity,' said Jovan Marjanovic, director of the Sarajevo Film Festival. 'Stellan has been a longtime friend of Sarajevo, and we are delighted to welcome him back. His career is filled with unforgettable roles in films that challenge, move, and stay with audiences. This award is a heartfelt thank you for his outstanding contribution to cinema and for the continued support he has shown to our festival,' added Jovan Marjanovic, director of the Sarajevo Film Festival, as quoted by Deadline. With more than 150 TV and film credits to his name, Skarsgard is one of Sweden s most internationally celebrated actors. According to Deadline, Skargard began acting at the age of fifteen in the Swedish TV series Bombi Bitt and I. Following this initial success, he went on to work extensively with the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre of Stockholm while also appearing in a range of Swedish films. Skarsgard's international breakthrough came in 1982 with Hans Alfredson's The Simple-Minded Murderer, for which he won the Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Actor. He went on to work with other top Scandinavian directors such as Bo Widerberg and Kjell Grede, reported Deadline. The 31st Sarajevo Film Festival runs from August 15 to 22. (ANI)
Mint
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
Stellan Skarsgard to be honoured with Heart of Sarajevo at Sarajevo Film Festival 2025
Washington DC [US], July 25 (ANI): Swedish acting star Stellan Skarsgard will be honoured with the prestigious Heart of Sarajevo award at the Sarajevo Film Festival in August, reported Deadline. According to the outlet, the actor is a longtime friend of the festival, as well as a curator and one of the patrons of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation, the scholarships of which were awarded at the Sarajevo Film Festival. "The Sarajevo Film Festival remains unwavering and driven in its aim to highlight subjects of great consequence, underscored by an intense lust for life. I love going there", said Skarsgard as quoted by Deadline. The actor follows in the wake of past celebrated Sarajevo honorees who include Meg Ryan, Alexander Payne, Lynne Ramsay, Charlie Kaufman, Jesse Eisenberg, Ruben Ostlund, Mads Mikkelsen and Angelina Jolie, reported Deadline. "It is a true honor to present the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo to Stellan Skarsgard, an actor of remarkable depth, strength, and integrity," said Jovan Marjanovic, director of the Sarajevo Film Festival. "Stellan has been a longtime friend of Sarajevo, and we are delighted to welcome him back. His career is filled with unforgettable roles in films that challenge, move, and stay with audiences. This award is a heartfelt thank you for his outstanding contribution to cinema and for the continued support he has shown to our festival," added Jovan Marjanovic, director of the Sarajevo Film Festival, as quoted by Deadline. With more than 150 TV and film credits to his name, Skarsgard is one of Sweden s most internationally celebrated actors. According to Deadline, Skargard began acting at the age of fifteen in the Swedish TV series Bombi Bitt and I. Following this initial success, he went on to work extensively with the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre of Stockholm while also appearing in a range of Swedish films. Skarsgard's international breakthrough came in 1982 with Hans Alfredson's The Simple-Minded Murderer, for which he won the Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Actor. He went on to work with other top Scandinavian directors such as Bo Widerberg and Kjell Grede, reported Deadline. The 31st Sarajevo Film Festival runs from August 15 to 22. (ANI)
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jack McBrayer Spills on Famous Friends Alexander Skarsgard and Gavin Rossdale (Exclusive)
The Zillow Gone Wild host reveals what Skarsgard is really like after "he's always cast as an abusive husband or Tarzan," before sharing why he sent Rossdale an invoice after spending the holidays together. While best known for his work at Kenneth Parcell on 30 Rock and voicing Fix-It Felix in the Wreck-It Ralph film, Jack McBrayer is also known for having some pretty random, famous friends. The actor, comedian and current host of HGTV's Zillow Gone Wild has made headlines for his apparently unlikely friendships with both Alexander Skarsgard and Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale. While it's unclear how he met the rocker, McBrayer said he and Skarsgard were neighbors in Los Angeles and hit it off at award shows while representing their respective series, 30 Rock and True Blood. After being buds for more than a decade, attending award shows and starring in a Funny of Die sketch together, the two finally acted in something a bit more substantial this year for AppleTV+'s Murderbot. On the show, Skarsgard plays a robot who gains free will -- and becomes obsessed with the soapy show-within-a-show The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, on which McBrayer has a role as a navigation officer. "If you ever get an opportunity to do a TV show with your best friend, just do it. Just say yes," McBrayer told TooFab of his Murderbot cameos. "But of course this is all his doing, where he was in the process where they were developing the show, writing the episodes and he was like, 'Oh, and you should have Jack McBrayer be in it too,' and so they were like, 'Okay!'" Eventually, the two were even able to share the screen together on the series, thanks to a hallucination. "It was so fun!" he continued. "Our wigs, our costumes. He's a big goofball and I hope that more people are starting to realize that, because he's always cast as an abusive husband or Tarzan, but there's more to Alex than an abusive Tarzan." When it comes to Rossdale, fans didn't know the two were friends until Gavin himself revealed in an interview that McBrayer has spent the holidays with him and his kids ever since splitting from Gwen Stefani. The rocker also claimed the comedian once sent him an "invoice" for his "presence" after one particular outing, without giving much more context. So, of course, we asked. "Okay. So, to be fair, I am known for sending thank you notes. So for example, every home we go to on Zillow Gone Wild, I will send a handwritten thank you note to our homeowners," McBrayer told TooFab. "And that was 30 houses this season on top of 24 last season. It's a lot of postage, y'all. I'll need to invoice HGTV!" "But I have been friends with Gavin and his boys for such a long time and I'm so honored to be able to join them for special events, birthdays, holidays, super fun," he continued. "And so, after a while, if you're just writing a thank you note for every single occasion, I'm like, 'Well, I gotta shake it up a little bit. How do you top the last one?'" "And so, yes, there was one time I did create an invoice for him. A joke invoice," he insisted. "But, it was really fun to do and he did get a kick out of it. I was just like, 'I charge an exorbitant fee for his other friend for making small talk.'" See more of McBrayer on HGTV's Zillow Gone Wild, airing Fridays! Solve the daily Crossword
Mint
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
Stellan Skarsgard shocks film festival with Nazi claims about Ingmar Bergman
At the Karlovy Vary film festival, Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard (74) made explosive comments about legendary director Ingmar Bergman. While accepting a Crystal Globe award, Skarsgard called Bergman "a Nazi during the war" and claimed he was 'the only person I know who cried when Hitler died'. He described Bergman as deeply "manipulative" with a "very weird outlook" that treated some people as 'not worthy'. These remarks reference Bergman's own admissions: In his 1987 memoir, Bergman wrote he was "on Hitler's side" for years and kept Hitler's photo by his bed as a teen after seeing him speak in 1934. Skarsgard worked with Bergman on a 1986 stage play, but called their relationship "complicated" due to Bergman's harsh personality. He clarified: 'He was a nice director, but you can still denounce a person as an {a*******}" Though Bergman renounced Nazism after WWII's horrors, calling the Holocaust a 'hideous shock', Skarsgard implied his earlier beliefs shaped his cruel behavior. The actor contrasted this with director Lars von Trier (who faced controversy for Nazi jokes), defending him as fundamentally "the opposite" of a Nazi despite flawed humor. Skarsgard's comments came while promoting *Sentimental Value*—a new film where he plays a flawed director-father. He reflected on artistic legacies, noting fame is "short-lived" and admitting, 'I'll be dead soon'. The festival honored his 50+ year career, from child actor in Bombi Bott to Dune and Mamma Mia!, where he joked about being objectified as one of three "cute and stupid" male 'bimbos'. Despite recent health struggles affecting his memory, he vowed to keep acting: 'Is there something I'd still like to try? Certainly'.
Time of India
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Alexander Skarsgard on cahllenges he faced in acting career, recalls "crying in the shower" after bad auditions
Actor Alexander Skarsgard opened up on the challenges he faced in Hollywood in the initial years of his career, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Actor Alexander Skarsgard opened up on the challenges he faced in Hollywood in the initial years of his career, according to The Hollywood Reporter. During a recent appearance on Jesse Tyler Ferguson 's Dinner's on Me podcast, the actor recalled "crying in the shower" after bad auditions, before his 2008 breakout year with his roles in Generation Kill and True Blood, as per the outlet. "I found those experiences -- they were horrible -- when you go in for something that you know you're not right for, and you're not connecting with a character at all, but you're at a place where you feel like you can't say no to the audition," Skarsgard said of his struggles with the audition process, even after he starred in 2001's Zoolander. "I was always on the cusp of being fired by my agents," the Pillion actor added. "If I say no to this audition, they're probably gonna drop me, so I gotta go in, but I don't connect to the role. I'm completely wrong for it." He admitted he gets "a little PTSD" thinking about that time in his career, "because I remember the feeling of coming back to my little shitty apartment in L.A., you know, crying in the shower after a day like that. I just felt filthy in my soul and, like, zero confidence. I was like, 'I'm the worst actor in the world, and I also have no dignity because I go in and audition for this stuff. I'm wasting their time.' It's a rough feeling," according to The Hollywood Reporter. A son of actor Stellan Skarsgard , he began acting at age seven but quit at age thirteen. After serving in the Swedish Navy, Skarsgard returned to acting and gained his first role in the US comedy film Zoolander (2001). After appearing in films such as Melancholia (2011), Battleship (2012) and The Legend of Tarzan (2016), Skarsgard starred in the drama series Big Little Lies (2017-2019) as an abusive husband, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. He went on to appear in the films Long Shot (2019), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Passing (2021), The Northman (2022), which he also produced, and Infinity Pool (2023).
