Peter Sarsgaard, an actor in films like Dead Man Walking and Boys Don’t Cry, was interviewed at a roundtable held as part of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF). “Humanity must work together or else”, Sarsgaard told reporters. Sarsgaard shared all his insights after receiving the KVIFF President’s Award during the festival opening ceremony on Friday night.
Sarsgaard spoke at length about Elon Musk, as it relates to his upcoming Apple TV+ series, the book adaptation Neuromancer, which is currently in the middle of production. “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,” explained Sarsgaard. “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.”
Afterward, Sarsgaard spoke about his active participation in protests, “I like going to a protest sometimes to look at all these people. ‘We can do it! We all believe in something bigger.” Sarsgaard also spoke about his participation in a No Kings’ Protest with his daughter, recalling that his daughter was “really moved about a collective action like that,” and explaining:
“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.”
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