Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Yahoo is part of Verizon Media. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. Peter Sarsgaard: ‘Of course there’ll be rioting. But I would also say, of course people are gonna be rioting. Or putting your clothes back on, even, as in Don't Look Now – not the actual act. “The fact that it's more in people's minds now is surprising to me, because the state of emergency that we've been in for so long is wildly apparent. “People think bats started Covid. “It’s always a conscious decision on my part to work with someone who's got a different perspective,” he responds. A. bat is the only mammal that has achieved the dream of flying,” says The Illinois-born actor rose to prominence playing loathsome characters in films such as Boys Don’t Cry  (1999), Flightplan (2005)  and An Education (2009). “It's always been something that I've had in my mind,” he replies. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. The Batman has been described as a grounded franchise refresh that chronicles Bruce Wayne as a young man. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. Of course, people are going to be protesting. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. It was a film, says Sarsgaard, about “obedience to malevolent authority” – a theme that takes on particular power amid the current backdrop of populist right-wing governments, police violence and sadistic immigration policies. “I appreciate great white male masters – there are some – but I don't need every movie to be like that. Two-Face in the new film, a role last played by Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight. I can't believe there are people that still haven't come around. He says that he took the role mostly to please his younger self (“I almost imagine teenage Peter sitting in the audience”). I ask if it’s important to him that his work engages with the times we live in. “I get lulled, and it’s hard for me to keep my creative energy up. “Yeah,” he says, “but I also think that artists are particularly sensitive. The film will begin shooting in January in the U.K. and is expected to arrive in theaters June 25, 2021. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. For all its twists, turns, and “a plot that really requires you to take large leaps”, The Lie is a slow-moving film in places, filled with fraught silences and tense, lingering takes. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. One such role comes in the form of The Lie, a psychological horror in which Sarsgaard plays Jay, the father of a teenage girl (Joey King) who commits a sudden and unconscionable murder. Wouldn’t you riot?”. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. Sarsgaard is speaking with me from Greece, ahead of the film’s forthcoming Amazon Prime release. It's almost like people have to be bludgeoned with something until it becomes obvious. Sometimes, when you go to make something, if it seems really obvious to you that it’s the time to make it, it might take a while for it to become something that is on CNN night after night. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. “If what you're really out for is someone with a different eye, with a different way of seeing the same thing that you see, then that's just gonna naturally happen. https://ew.com/movies/2019/12/06/the-batman-peter-sarsgaard But it was also the challenge of the premise that drew him to it – “trying to piece together how I could make this sequence of events work, how to make them plausible”. He is referring not to Batman – although he is set to feature in the forthcoming Batman outing, alongside Robert Pattinson’s dark knight – but about the animal, of which he houses 200 in a bat house at his Vermont home. Gyllenhaal posted this image on Instagram around the same time, of Sarsgaard “half way through a shave” … half …way … so, yes, sounds like a clear hint he’s playing Dent. There's a lot of hatred towards bats at the moment. Authority has seldom seemed more malevolent; the question is whether it will continue to be obeyed. The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. “People are afraid of bats,” he tells me. There’s speculation that Sarsgaard could be playing Harvey Dent a.k.a. Catwoman and Paul Dano has been cast as the Riddler. He has done so in an era when male actors are increasingly called out for the lack of gender diversity among their collaborators; I ask whether this was a conscious decision on his part. Peter Sarsgaard is the latest actor to join Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Boasting a large, statesman-like beard and radiating calmness, the actor seems a far cry from the desperate, guilt-stricken man I watched on screen just days earlier. “I remember a director once asking me, ‘Is it possible for you both to just take off your clothes faster before you have sex? © Copyright 2020 Meredith Corporation. I’m someone who likes to get shot out of a cannon.”. He also voices a desire to work with Yorgos Lanthimos, the idiosyncratic filmmaker behind The Favourite (2018) and The Lobster (2015), and Christopher Nolan (“actors have fun in his movies, it looks like, to me”). Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Experimenter (2015) saw Sarsgaard play Stanley Milgram, the psychologist behind the 1960s experiments in which volunteers were instructed to “electrocute” subjects at the behest of an authority figure. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. “And if you're really reading closely and paying attention when you meet the person, you're gonna end up working with people of colour, women, you're not just gonna work with a bunch of white American males. Though you're not going to get injured by one.”. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. Zoe Kravitz has also been cast as Selina Kyle a.k.a. It's mind blowing to me.”. It’s a mode of filmmaking that’s familiar to Sarsgaard, who, despite the occasional Hollywood blockbuster, remains an indie star at heart. Jones,’ ‘The Batman,’ and His Real Life Passion for Real Life Bats by Christina Radish July 10, 2020 Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. But this is something that is so deeply entrenched, it’s been there forever. While his screen career has since encompassed a broad spectrum of personas and moralities, he still revels in roles with more than a touch of sin. Wouldn’t you riot?’, Alec Guinness: Why he was at his best as the king of creeps, You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful language is not acceptable, Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties, We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification. Sarsgaard, too, knows what it is to be cast as a villain. This is just another cycle of it, which will hopefully have a different result. “I’ve messed up as a parent here and there,” he adds, alluding to his two daughters, 14 and eight, “but I wouldn't believe that my children were capable of anything like that at all.” I presume this is quite the understatement. “With her, it’s like, if you're going to be putting ammonium nitrate into the boat, and that's what's happening in the scene, you're going to actually fill up the boat.” He laughs. He is full of praise for filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, with whom he worked on 2013’s Night Moves, a sublime (and sublimely slow-paced) indie thriller focusing on a group of eco-terrorists who sabotage a dam. 30 essential albums from the last 30 years, Robert Pattinson thinks Jennifer Lopez would make a great Batman. And I love that. That's my taste also.”, Though Night Moves is only seven years old, it seems pointedly prescient given the urgency of the climate crisis and well-publicised activism of groups such as Extinction Rebellion.

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