Peter Sarsgaard on the plans of Elon Musk Mars, no manifestation of kings, connection

Humanity must work together or, Peter Sarsgaard (Dead man walking,, The boys don’t cry) told journalists during an interview with the Saturday round table as part of the 59th edition of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), in which he also explained why he joined a “No Kings” demonstration on the birthday of American President Donald Trump, and why he does not believe in the colonization plans of the March of Elon Musk as a means of securing the human race.

Sarsgaard shared his thoughts and ideas after receiving the Prize from the President of Kviff during the festival opening ceremony on Friday evening. In his speech of acceptance, he spoke out against the divisions, in particular in the United States, saying: “The enemies are the forces that divide us.” He added: “There are no things alone. While my country withdraws from its global responsibilities and is trying to go to a rider alone, he is also divided into factions from the interior – factions of politics, sex, sexuality, race, Jews separated during the war.” The wife of Sarsgaard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, identifies himself as a Jew.

Given the dangers such as climate change and nuclear or another war, Sarsgaard said: “We are all going to die. Our children will all live on the same planet, and maybe Elon [Musk]He will live on Mars. It doesn’t seem so nice to me. I think you must have been born on Mars and that I have never seen the earth thinking that Mars is nice. »»

He continued: “We are all fucked. So we have to connect. It is very simple. It is not even political. I am not political in this way. I do not approve of the candidates.”

Sarsgaard referred to Musk when he asked him questions about his next Apple TV +series, the adaptation of the book Neuromancethat he is currently drawing. “I play a guy who has created a kind of AI that is used worldwide, and it is essentially the most powerful and richest guy in the world,” he said. “And because the world is going to shit, it has a place where it can be [far] far. So, I play this guy who somehow manages to really run away, far from the earth, in style Elon Musk – “We are just going to Mars while it goes to shit.” There is no place to go! So that really interested me.

Sarsgaard then mentioned how the technology fearing the apocalypse and other billionaires built survivalist bunkers. “I heard richer people talking about it. Many rich people buy properties, for example, in New Zealand, and they heard that it is the place where you have to be,” he said. “There is no fucking place unless you have a nuclear arsenal to keep everyone at a distance !! There is no place to go. We are all in the same genre. [the author] William Gibson. He is in the show, and he had lines like “wavy tsunamis”. I remember that a large part of the tongue is so muscular and crazy.

The star also shared that he had his own place far, but he does not expect to be safe if a disaster strikes. “I actually have a property that is far from the woods and has its own source of water,” he said. “It’s a great place, perhaps, for climate change. And I hear people say this sometimes: “Where is the best place to be for climate change?” When this happens, there is no room, because you think the world will stay in the desert, where there is no water?

In particular, the theme of AI and machines playing an increasing role in replacing human interactions also plays in Sarsgaard’s concern for a lack of social connections. In 2023, Sarsgaard warned of AI. “I think we can all really agree that an actor is a person and that a writer is a person, but apparently we cannot,” he told the Venice International Film Festival at the time. He urged the industry not to put stories on the links “with the machines and the eight billionaires who have them”.

Speaking of billionaires, Sarsgaard told journalists in Karlovy varying on Saturday that “I like to go to a demonstration 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 him with his 13-year-old daughter.” I went to that of Trump’s birthday, the anniversary of the Anti-Trump-the “No Kings” demonstration, “he said.” I went to the one who was just outside the New York public library. ”

His daughter “was really moved by collective action like that,” recalls the actor. “I know it seems political, but for me,” no kings “is not so political. All the consolidated power in the least people seems to be a bad idea. I believe, I suppose, in a kind of combination of socialism and democracy. But I don’t know how to call it. I think there are other people who know this shit better than I do. I just want to have an equal opportunity. “

At the end of his conversation with this group of journalists, Sarsgaard explained what is the next step for him after Neuromance. It’s a film with the Swiss director Michael Koch called Erosion. Cook A Sky Was done with non-actors, “so I will also play with most non-actors,” said the star. “We filled it in Lucerne. He wrote the role for me. ”

He depicts a qualified person. “I play a brain surgeon,” said Sarsgaard. “I went to all these brain surgeries, and I went to so much brain surgeries as in this stage, I am a bit like the feeling I could do.”

He also shared the role: “He is a really huge canvas for me as an actor. I am in every context of the film, and it is not only a main role in this direction. He is 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.

At one point during the conversation on Saturday, Sarsgaard praised his wife, Gyllenhaal, to be a director as well informed. Could fans never see him sit on the director’s chair? “Maybe I have a film in me to make one day,” he replied. “I actually have an idea for something I would like to achieve at some point, but it would be a very focused thing on the actor. And I have an appreciation for the cinema and the visual story of the story, but my wife has the complete package. ”

The actor recently played in the director Tim Fehlbaum September 5. He also wrapped production on Warner Bros. ‘ The bride!, Who also features Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley and should be released later this year. Directed by Gyllenhaal, the film takes place in Chicago in the 1930s and turns the classic story of Frankenstein.

For his role as a man suffering from dementia in the Michel Franco MemoryFaced with Jessica Chastain, Sarsgaard won the Volpi Cup for best actor at the Venice Festival 2023. In series, he played in tastes Presumed innocent,, The murderAnd Dopesick.

By revealing that he would receive the honor of this year, the organizers of Kviff praised Sarsgaard for having been “renowned for his range and his ability to access what is behind the often complicated facades of the characters he plays”. In the honor of the actor, the festival projects the 2003 journalism drama Broken glass.