Award-winning actor Stellan Skarsgård defended his young son against constant “nepo baby” jibes, which he said were making the boy feel “sad” and “isolated.” The 74-year-old Swedish actor opened up about the corrosive effect the label can have on younger children. “My 13-year-old, Kolbjörn, the youngest, suffers from that,” the father of eight told the publication. “When his pals at …
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Stellan Skarsgård said in an interview with Vulture that his 13-year-old son gets picked on at school because his father is an actor. “Cruel kids” call his child a “nepo baby,” which has become the ubiquitous term to describe children with famous parents. “My 13-year-old, Kolbjörn, the youngest, suffers from that,” Skarsgård said. “When his pals at school call him nepo …
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Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling embrace the bizarre, erotic, and emotionally fraught in Pillion, a film that’s as much a tender romance as it is a kink-informed journey of self-discovery. Directed by Harry Lighton in his feature debut, the movie features Melling as a nice suburban London boy who opens up, in more ways than one, when he begins a …
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Few actors today can toggle between massive blockbusters, like “Dune,” and small-scale auteurist works, such as Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” with the ease of Stellan Skarsgård. And few are quite as candid when they open up. As reported by Variety from the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where the actor was promoting “Sentimental Value” and on hand for a tribute, Skarsgård …
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Stellan Skarsgård has weighed in on famed director Ingmar Bergman’s Nazi sympathies as a young adult. The actor was speaking at the Karlovy Vary film festival in the Czech Republic, where he was promoting Joachim Trier’s film Sentimental Value, inspired by the late Swedish director. Skarsgård expressed his personal dislike of Bergman, with whom he worked on a 1986 stage …
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