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Peter Sarsgaard On Awards, Elon Musk, And Dancing In His New Film ‘The Bride': 'It's About The Monster In All Of Us' – Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Peter Sarsgaard arrived in Karlovy Vary as one of the festival's few honorees without a new film in the lineup — instead, he presented his 2003 film Shattered Glass, a visionary real-life drama about an ethically unmoored journalist whose embellished stories in some ways foresaw the media landscape of today. That doesn't mean the actor has been idle; he came to the Czech Republic direct from the set of William Gibson's 1984 sci-fi classic Neuromancer. 'It's a big, ten-episode thing for Apple,' he reveals. 'I play a guy called Ashpool, who, if you've read the book, is a guy who's created something that's sort of like AI. He's the wealthiest person in the world, but the world is suffering. He's in his own small world of not suffering, and you see how that's an impossibility: Elon Musk may think he's going to go to Mars to get away from it all, but everything's going to follow him to Mars. There's no getting away. And who the f*ck wants to be on Mars?' More from Deadline 'Ordinary Failures' Filmmaker Cristina Grosan & 'Family Film' Director Olmo Omerzu Discuss Building Sustainable Careers In CEE - Karlovy Vary Netflix Promotes Łukasz Kłuskiewicz To Run TV & Movies Out Of CEE Region Frankfurt Book Fair In Talks To Launch Network Of Book-To-Screen Adaptation Markets At Festivals Including Venice, Busan & Toronto - Karlovy Vary After that, Sarsgaard will be seen in his wife Maggie Gyllenhaal's new film The Bride!, a '30s-set crime story loosely based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 'I'm going to say that it's going to be controversial,' says the actor. 'I mean, it's very punk. It's very radical in some ways, and the main characters in it are very imperfect. It's also a love story, basically. It's about the monster in all of us.' Contrary to advance rumors, the film is not a musical, as such, although Sarsgaard conceded that there are some dance routines. Is he a good dancer? 'I will certainly dance if given the opportunity,' he laughs. 'I'm known as the first one on and the last one off the dance floor. I shake it until my moneymaker's wet.' DEADLINE: The clip reel of your past work that the festival showed here was pretty impressive… PETER SARSGAARD: Anguish! [Laughs.] So much anguish, my God. DEADLINE: How did you feel about it, looking back at your work? SARSGAARD: I feel like I'm getting better and better as an actor. That's what I feel like. I feel like at least it's not going the other way yet. DEADLINE: Have you always been able to be objective about your acting? SARSGAARD: I think when I was younger, I thought I was great, period. Yeah. When I first started acting, the first time I ever did it, this beautiful woman named Karen Schmulen asked me to come to an acting class with her, because I seemed depressed or something. And so, I audited an acting class, and I remember sitting there watching these other actors. I always felt really like a non-actor. And I felt like a non-actor for a long time, because a lot of the people who were actors that I grew up around were very theatrical people. And the class had a lot of those people. They asked me to read from this play, Bent, which is about homosexuals in the Holocaust, and it was an insanely dramatic scene where he has to prove his sexuality — prove that he's heterosexual — by having sex with a dead woman. And I mean, the stakes could not be higher! And I didn't know that I could do it. I thought, well, this is impossible. And then I started doing it, and it was like I slipped into [a trance] and I came out the other side and everyone was looking at me like they had just watched something, and I went, 'Oh wow, I'm really good at this. And so, I felt like I was really good at it kind of immediately. And I look back now and I see someone who needed to be seen, had a lot of emotions to let go of and express, and I was sort of just venting emotions for a long time. It wasn't as finely nuanced as I'm ultimately capable of. And it took a number of years to get all of that out. Now, I have access to an emotional life, but that doesn't have to be everything. DEADLINE: When did you reach that point of letting go? SARSGAARD: I mean, it was gradual. I don't know that there was an exact moment, but I knew it was something that I needed to ultimately do. I was asked to play a lot of people in crisis situations early on, a lot of victims. My audition for Dead Man Walking was: 'Your girlfriend is getting raped in front of you. Improvise.' I actually have the audition tape. The casting director, Doug Aibel, still had it, and I saw it recently. It's very convincing. I look like a person who's watching his girlfriend get raped, but that's only one aspect of acting, right? To put yourself in heightened imaginary circumstances and be able to do it. I'm really glad that I'm not having to do that anymore. I mean, to be fair, the circumstances in Neuromancer that I'm doing right now are insanely high, the given circumstances, and I'm approaching it differently. The thing to remember is that people disassociate really well. This is something I think actors forget. I mean, if your girlfriend's being raped in front of you, I don't know that you even weep. I think you might. I don't know. Look at people in wartime. They're not crying and pulling their hair out all the time. They're in a kind of survival mode. It's not anguish all the time. So, I think that that's something that it takes time and wisdom to realize. DEADLINE: Were you disappointed that your last film, , didn't get the attention it deserved? SARSGAARD: I think it was controversial, considering what's going on in Israel. What was interesting about that film is I had people who were on both sides of that war come up to me and say, 'I have problems with the film,' and I've had people who are on both sides of that situation come up to me and say that they thought the film was great. To me, that film was just about journalism. It was about the beginning of 24/7 news coverage, and it asks, 'Is seeing something in real time, without having any perspective on it, the truth?' I mean, is it better to take 24 hours to fully understand something versus following it second by second? Where you point the camera, you've made a decision already. It's already subjective. This idea that a live camera is the truth I don't think is… It's certainly not the full truth. So… I don't know. To me, it exceeded its expectations. When I went to go make that movie, if somebody had told me that it would've been nominated for any awards, I would've been very surprised. DEADLINE: Just because it was so small? SARSGAARD: Yeah. It was made for nothing. It had no money behind it. Awards are about money. Look, if you're on a big movie, that's a lot of voters that are just on your movie set that are going to vote for your movie, right? Or if your director has been nominated for 15 Academy Awards, chances are he will be nominated, the film will be nominated, and all the actors will be nominated. The awards are no litmus test of anything other than a certain degree of quality and popularity. I think awards are important for shining a light on movies that otherwise wouldn't have been seen. And so that's why, I guess in some sense, I'm into a kind of affirmative action with awards. We should really go, 'What needs it?' Not necessarily what deserves it, because who the f*ck knows what deserves it? We all have different opinions on that, but what could use a spotlight? What could use some attention? For me, a film like Nickel Boys, that deserves some attention. That's an interesting thing that happened not that long ago in the United States and I thought the film was very well-made and, yeah, give that film some attention. DEADLINE: You're in Karlovy Vary with another film about journalism, , about a guy who fabricates his stories… SARSGAARD: …In the interest of entertainment? DEADLINE: Yes. How do you think that story resonates in today's world? SARSGAARD: Isn't journalism all about entertainment on some level? I mean, why do we cover a hurricane coming toward some place in 24/7 coverage? It's not just to warn people to get away. It's because it's entertaining. It's a natural phenomenon that looks incredible. 'Oh, we're going to get in a plane and we're going to look at it from the top and it's impressive.' It's viewership. A lot of the places where I get my news are not supported by advertising. And I think that if viewership is your model and advertising and all of that, then it's going to have an effect on the news. So, what happens in Shattered Glass is, he's trying to make it entertaining. So, he fabricates things to make it more entertaining. I think that happens so much now that it's almost like the movie feels old-fashioned. Right? I know a couple of journalists who are independent journalists, and I actually get a lot of my news from them. DEADLINE: In your speech the other night you touched on current affairs in the United States. Do you like to use your platform as an actor, as a public figure, or is it more about the need to express how you feel? SARSGAARD: I have no idea if anyone will listen to what I say, but anytime I'm in front of a microphone and there are a bunch of people, I consider it an opportunity. And I certainly am not going to stand up there and weep about how my acting teacher helped me get to this moment. I think we are not in the age of individual achievement. Nobody wants to watch an actor get up there and be like, 'This is my big moment!' I think, above a certain level of quality in acting, we're all basically doing the same thing. Some people have more opportunities; some people have fewer opportunities. Some people have a bigger range, some of them less. And so, with the speech I gave in Venice and the one I gave here, I wrote them both on the same day that I gave them. It's whatever is on my mind on that day. I told [my agent] I was going to give a 45-second speech, because I also don't believe in long speeches. And in 45 seconds I want to say what? This is an opportunity to say something. I'm not an overtly political person. I'm not going to take down one political leader and prop up another. I'm not going to weigh in on some issue that's incredibly divisive, even though I have my own opinions about it. But I try to do a more 30,000ft view of what I think is all of our problems. What I don't see a lot in the world is anyone asking, 'what is our collective problem?' I think for 99% of us, 1% [of the population] is fucking things up. DEADLINE: Do you think actors in particular are starting to self-censor, because they don't know whether their words will be used against them? SARSGAARD: I think that that time is ending. I was looking at actors at Cannes, they were all speaking out quite forcefully about things they believed in. I mean, some of them pretty controversially. I don't feel scared about it, really. I mean, I'm not an actor that's in big blockbusters that have to sell to every single person. My audience doesn't have to be absolutely everyone. When you make a movie for $10 million or under, you can make it however you want it. You don't have to have everybody like it. If you make a movie for a $100 million then you have to not say anything controversial. The good news is that I'm not like Tom Cruise. I think for him there would probably be more at stake in terms of saying what he thought. In some ways he does say what he thinks, but not super-controversially. DEADLINE: What is your relationship with technology and AI? SARSGAARD: My relationship with that stuff? Well, I'm just old enough that… I mean, I have memories of black and white television and getting up and changing the channel. I watched [TV shows] Hogan's Heroes, Baa Baa Black Sheep. These were the things I grew up watching. And we didn't get cable for a long time, because my family doesn't watch television. We didn't get cable until I was, I think, 14. And then I didn't get a cell phone until I was 23 or something like that. But my dad was a computer programmer and salesman and stuff and knew a lot about computers. And so, we always had IBM computers in the house. My dad also had a ham radio. They felt similar. So, my relationship with technology is still like that. I use this phone for music and chess. That's about it. 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05-07-2025
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Fireworks and Lights Dazzle Karlovy Vary as Fest Opening Night Pays Tribute to Jiri Bartoska
Fireworks on July 4 are nothing special in the U.S. But the Friday night fireworks over the Czech spa town Karlovy Vary brought an upbeat end to the opening night of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), which proved to be an emotional rollercoaster. It included stars Peter Sarsgaard and Vicky Krieps, who were both honored during the opening ceremony, sharing political thoughts about a divided U.S. and world, laughs and rare behind-the-scenes insights thanks to the opening film, We've Got to Frame It! (A Conversation With Jiří Bartoška in July 2021), and words of thanks in heartfelt tributes to the long-time festival president and legendary Czech actor Bartoška, who died in May at the age of 78. More from The Hollywood Reporter Peter Sarsgaard Gets Political as Karlovy Vary Opens: "The Enemies Are the Forces That Divide Us" Kenneth Colley, Admiral Piett in a Pair of 'Star Wars' Films, Dies at 87 How Jamaal Fields-Green Took Charge of the Tony-Favorite 'MJ the Musical' and Made It His Own Big names in attendance for the opening night included members of the jury for the fest's main Crystal Globe Competition, which includes Roma producer Nicolás Celis, Fremont director Babak Jalali, Czech actor, writer, and director Jiří Mádl (Waves), Berlin Film Festival selector and film critic Jessica Kiang, and Swedish actress Tuva Novotny. The opening ceremony, as is tradition, included a stage show that was choreographed by Michal and Simon Cabani. It featured their trademark on-stage energy as dancers moved in and out of and around beams of light and at times reflected the light with mirrors or used color filters to change the light's appearance. The music moved between the dramatic and energetic and included Hans Zimmer's Interstellar theme. A little bit later, no festival staff eye stayed dry in the jam-packed Congress Hall of the Brutalist Thermal Hotel in Karlovy Vary when host Marek Eben, a popular Czech actor and TV presenter, lauded Bartoška and his legacy. 'People say nobody is irreplaceable. But that isn't true,' he said, according to the live translation provided. At the same time, he left a lasting legacy, Eben argued. 'I don't remember him ever doubting the future of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival,' he said. 'What Jiří Bartoška managed to create is a living organism. If all goes well, it will outlive us all. And Jiří would be delighted to see that.' KVIFF executive director Kryštof Mucha and artistic director Karel Och, both clearly full of emotion, also expressed their thanks to their mentor on stage. Then it was time for the latest addition to the always-popular fest trailers, created by Ivan Zachariáš, which was unveiled during the opening ceremony and also drew emotional reactions from the crowd. It stars Bolek Polívka, a long-time friend of Bartoška's, sitting in a bar and talking to someone across the table from him. 'Another round wouldn't hurt, would it?' he says and puts in a last order for two whiskeys. The camera then reveals that nobody is sitting across from him, but he is clearly talking to Bartoška, telling him that he is giving him one of his two festival awards and a photo of Bartoška with Polívka's nose sticking in from the side. 'You can hang it up there somewhere,' Polívka's says. After the screening of the opening film, directed by Jakub Jurásek, audience members could be heard discussing some of the insights shared by Bartoška and some of the behind-the-scenes insights and jokes presented in the movie. Earlier in the day, people were also seen taking photographs of some of the 30 large-scale outdoor panels placed across the spa town that feature 60 black-and-white photographs of Bartoška, including with celebrity attendees, 'capturing, through the eyes of festival photographers, the most important festival moments as well as unique portraits of the remarkable personality who led the Karlovy Vary Festival for three decades.' Before 11 p.m., it was time for La Roux's Elly Jackson to take the stage for the traditional free opening concert, which attracted a large crowd of fans, festival goers, and opening night guests to the square outside the Thermal Hotel. Hits, such as 'Tropical Chancer,' 'Otherside,' 'In for the Kill,' and the widely-known 'Bulletproof,' along with songs from the fourth La Roux studio album coming out next year kept the crowd grooving under the stars. Not even an apparent leg injury during her on-stage dancing stopped Jackson. Just after 11:45 p.m., it was time for fireworks to illuminate the night sky, bringing the official portions of the opening night to an end. Over the next week, through July 12, Karlovy Vary will present new arthouse releases and discoveries, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut, which is a cinema version of the popular video game, offbeat gems, and key highlights from the film festival circuit of the past year at what has come to be considered Central Europe's biggest cinema celebration of the summer. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts
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05-07-2025
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Peter Sarsgaard Calls for Unity in a Divided America at Karlovy Vary Film Festival Opening: ‘There Is No Going It Alone'
Actors Peter Sarsgaard and Vicky Krieps were honored at the opening of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Friday, with Sarsgaard calling for 'collective action' in the U.S. in the face of division. Karlovy Vary presented the KVIFF President's Award to Sarsgaard, who is the winner of the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, and a nominee for an Emmy and a Golden Globe. More from Variety Karlovy Vary Player 'The Anatomy of the Horses,' Questioning Revolution in Peru, Acquired by Loco Films (EXCLUSIVE) 'Promise, I'll Be Fine' Boarded by Cappu Films Ahead of Karlovy Vary Premiere (EXCLUSIVE) Young European Filmmakers Showcase Work in Future Frames Program at Karlovy Vary Receiving the award, he said: 'Making a film is a collective action […] any actor will tell you that good work is only possible in an environment that supports it […] There is no going it alone.' He continued: 'As my country retreats from its global responsibilities and tries to go it alone, it is also being divided into factions from within, factions of politics, gender, sexuality, race, Jews split over the war. But when there's a common enemy, there is no going it alone. Enemies are the forces that divide us, that individuate us. We all know who they are. Collective action is the only way forward in art and in our happiness. So thank you for this. I couldn't have done it without all of you. And in the words of [Czech statesman and playwright] Vaclav Havel, one half of a room cannot remain forever warm while the other half is cold.' In his honor, Karlovy Vary will screen Billy Ray's 2003 journalism drama 'Shattered Glass,' for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. Krieps, winner of a European Film Award for best actress for 'Corsage,' a performance for which she was similarly recognized at Cannes, also received the KVIFF President's Award. Receiving the award, she said: 'I would like to say I love film festivals. I think they are just the best thing in the world, together with cinema. And if movies are not misused, they can go across borders and transport the most powerful messages. They don't ask for your passport or where you're from or how much money you have, or if you're cool or not. 'I was never cool. I didn't finish my studies, but I'm here, and all I did was I believed in the dream. Movies give us the space to dream and hope. I came with nothing, and, when I leave this planet, I will go with nothing. So unfortunately, even the beautiful award will not go with me to where I'm going, but I will take all the memories and all my dreams, and that's what movies can do. So, we should try and save the movies so they continue to exist, and they continue to spread the word of love and peace and, most importantly, forgiveness.' Karlovy Vary will show Krieps' 'Love Me Tender,' which premiered in this year's Cannes. Other star guests at the festival, which runs July 4-12, include actors Michael Douglas, Stellan Skarsgård and Dakota Johnson. Douglas will present a newly restored print of Miloš Forman's 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and will be joined by Paul Zaentz — nephew of the late Saul Zaentz, who produced the film with Douglas — as well as members of Forman's family. Skarsgård will be presented with the Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema, and will present his latest film 'Sentimental Value,' which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Johnson will also receive the KVIFF President's Award. She will present the romantic comedy 'Splitsville' and the comedy 'Materialists.' Best of Variety Oscars 2026: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Roberts, Wagner Moura and More Among Early Contenders to Watch New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts?
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05-07-2025
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Peter Sarsgaard on Elon Musk's Mars Plans, Going to a 'No Kings' Protest, and How 'We're All F***ed'
Humanity must work together or else, Peter Sarsgaard (Dead Man Walking, Boys Don't Cry) told reporters during a Saturday roundtable interview conducted as part of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), in which he also explained why he joined a 'No Kings' protest on U.S. President Donald Trump's birthday, and why he doesn't believe in Elon Musk's Mars colonization plans as a way to safe the human race. Sarsgaard shared his thoughts and insights after receiving the KVIFF President's Award during the festival opening ceremony on Friday night. In his acceptance speech, he spoke out against divisions, especially in the U.S., saying: 'The enemies are the forces that divide us.' He added: 'There is no going it alone. As my country retreats from its global responsibilities and tries to go it alone, it is also being divided into factions from within — factions of politics, gender, sexuality, race, Jews split over the war.' Sarsgaard's wife, Maggie Gyllenhaal, identifies as Jewish. More from The Hollywood Reporter Kun on Latest Single "Deadman" and His Next Chapter: "It's Really Just the Beginning" 'Cinema Jazireh': An Afghan Woman Looking for a Loved One Must Transform Herself (KVIFF Trailer) 'Broken Voices' Is Inspired by a Girls' Choir Sexual Abuse Scandal Long Before #MeToo Given such dangers as climate change and nuclear or other war, Sarsgaard said: 'We're all going to die. Our children are all going to live on the same planet, and maybe Elon [Musk]'s will live on Mars. It doesn't look that nice to me. I think you have to be born on Mars and never have seen Earth to think Mars is nice.' He continued: 'We're all fucked. So we have to connect. It's very simple. That's not even political. I'm not political in that way. I'm not endorsing candidates.' Sarsgaard first referenced Musk when asked about his upcoming Apple TV+ series, the book adaptation Neuromancer, which he is currently shooting. 'I play a guy who has created a kind of AI that is used all over the world, and he's basically the most powerful, richest guy in the world,' he explained. 'And because the world is going to shit, he has a place where he can be that's [far] away. So, I'm playing this guy who sort of manages to really get away, away from Earth, Elon Musk-style – 'we'll just go to Mars while this one goes to shit.' There is no place to go! So that really interested me.' Sarsgaard then mentioned how apocalypse-fearing technology and other billionaires have been building survivalist bunkers. 'I've heard more rich people talk about this. Many wealthy people are buying properties, say, in New Zealand, and they've heard that that's the place to be,' he explained. 'There is no fucking place to be unless you have a nuclear arsenal to keep everyone else at bay!! There is no place to go. We're all in this together. So that theme interested me. I was also a big fan of the book. I read it in high school, and I just loved a lot of the language. I'm going to get to meet [the author] William Gibson. He's in the show, and he had lines like 'undulating tsunamis of delight.' I remember a lot of the language is so muscular and crazy.' The star also shared that he has his own place far away, but he doesn't expect to be safe there if a catastrophe strikes. 'I actually have a piece of property that is way out in the woods and has its own water source,' he said. 'It's a great place to be, maybe, for climate change. And I hear people say this sometimes: 'Where's the best place to be for climate change?' When it happens, there's no place to be, because you think the world is going to stay in the desert, where there's no water? Everyone's going to go. They don't care that you own the property.' Notably, the theme of AI and machines having an increasing role in replacing human interactions also plays into Sarsgaard's worry about a lack of social connections. In 2023, Sarsgaard warned about AI. 'I think we can all really agree that an actor is a person and that a writer is a person, but apparently we can't,' he said at the Venice International Film Festival back then. He urged the industry not to hand over stories about connections 'to the machines and the eight billionaires that own them.' Speaking of billionaires, Sarsgaard told reporters in Karlovy Vary on Saturday that, 'I like going to a protest sometimes to look at all these people. 'We can do it! We all believe in something bigger'.' The most recent protest was a big one, and he went to it with his 13-year-old daughter. 'I went to the one on Trump's birthday, the anti-Trump's birthday – the 'No Kings' protest,' he said. 'I went to the one that was right outside the New York Public Library.' His daughter 'was really moved about a collective action like that,' the actor recalled. 'I know it seems political, but to me, 'No Kings' is not that political. All the power consolidated in the fewest number of people sounds like a bad idea. I believe, I guess, in a kind of combination of socialism and democracy. But I don't know what to call it. I I think there are other people who know that shit better than I do. I just want everybody to have an equal opportunity.' At the end of his conversation with this group of reporters, Sarsgaard explained what's next for him after Neuromancer. It's a film with Swiss director Michael Koch that is called Erosion. Koch's A Piece of Sky was made with non-actors, 'so I'll also be acting with mostly non-actors,' the star explained. 'We're filming it in Lucerne. He wrote the role for me.' He portrays a skilled person. 'I play a brain surgeon,' Sarsgaard said. 'I've been going to all these brain surgeries, and I've been going to so many brain surgeries that at this point I am kind of like feeling I could do it.' He also shared about the role: 'It's a really huge canvas for me as an actor. I'm in every frame of the movie, and it's not just a lead role in that sense. It's a character who really goes somewhere. He starts in one place, and he ends up in another. I don't know where it will be. I'm curious, and I really trust this director. He's a really visual storyteller, and so I think that will be a very good combination.' At one point during Saturday's conversation, Sarsgaard lauded his wife, Gyllenhaal, for being such a knowledgeable director. Could fans ever see him take a seat in the director's chair? 'Maybe I have one movie in me to direct one day,' he replied. 'I actually have an idea for something I would like to direct at some point, but it would be a very actor-driven thing. And I have an appreciation for cinema, and the visual telling of the story, but my wife has the complete package.' The actor most recently starred in director Tim Fehlbaum's September 5. He has also wrapped production on Warner Bros.' The Bride!, which also stars Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley and is set for release later this year. Directed by Gyllenhaal, the film takes place in 1930s Chicago and puts a spin on the classic Frankenstein story. For his role as a man suffering from dementia in Michel Franco's Memory, opposite Jessica Chastain, Sarsgaard won the Volpi Cup for best actor at the 2023 Venice festival. In series, he has starred in the likes of Presumed Innocent, The Killing, and Dopesick. In unveiling that he would receive this year's honor, KVIFF organizers lauded Sarsgaard for being 'renowned for his range and ability to access what is behind the often-complicated facades of the characters he plays.' In the actor's honor, the fest is screening the 2003 journalism drama Shattered Glass. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts
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05-07-2025
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Czech international film festival opens with honors for actors Peter Sarsgaard and Vicky Krieps
PRAGUE — The Czech Karlovy Vary International Film Festival was kicking off its 59th edition on Friday with honors for American actor Peter Sarsgaard and actress Vicky Krieps from Luxembourg. Sarsgaard and Krieps are both slated to receive the Festival President's Award at the opening ceremony. The festival will screen 'Shattered Glass,' a 2003 movie directed by Billy Ray, for which Sarsgaard was nominated for a Golden Globe. To honor Krieps, who received a European Film Award for best actress for her role of the rebellious Empress Sisi in 'Corsage' (2022), the movie 'Love Me Tender' (2025) will be shown at the festival.
