“Humanity Must Work Together or Else, Peter SarsGaard (Dead Man Walking, Boys Don’t Cry) Told Reporters Dringing A Saturday Roundtable Inter of the As. Film Festival (Kviff), in WHICH HA ALSO Explained Who Heeled A “No Kings” Protest on US President Donald Trump’s Birthday;”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
SarsGaard Shared His Thought and Insights After Receive the Kviff President’s Award Durying the Festival Opening Ceremony on Friday Night. In his acceptance speech, he Spoke out against divisions, especialy in the US, saying: “The Enemies Are The Forces That Divide Us.” He added: “there is no going it alone. As My Country retreats from itts Global Responsibilites Sexuality, Race, Jews Split Over The War. ” SarsGaard’s Wife, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Identifies As Jewish.
Given Such Dangers As Climate Change and Nuclear or Other War, SarsGaard Said: “We’re All Going to Die. [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 NeuromancerWHICH HE IS CURRENTLY CHOOTING. “I Play A Guy Who have been Created a kind of ai that is used all over the World, and He’s Basically The Mosst Powerful, Richest Guy in the World,“ He Explained. “And Because the World Is Going to Shit, Has A PLACE WHERE HE 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 White the this one goes to shit.’ There is no place to go! So that real interested me. ”
SarsGaard Ten Mentioned How Apocalypse-Fenering Technology and Other Billionaires Have Been Building Survival Bunkers. “I’ve heard more rich people talk about this. Many Wealthy people are buying productions, 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! in High School, and I Just Loved A Lot of the Language. [the author] William Gibson. He’s in the show, and he have lines like ‘undulating tsunamis of delight.’ I Remember A Lot of the Language Is So Muscular and Crazy. ”
The Star Also Shared That Has His Own Place Far Away, But He Doesn’t Expert 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 Cas: ‘WHERE’S The BEST PLACE TO BE FOR CLIA CLIMATE CHANGE?’ WHEN IT HAPPENS, THERE’S NO Place to Be, Because You Think The World Is Going to Stay in the Desert, Whore Three’s No Water?
Notably, theme of ai and machines having an inclaering 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,“ He Said at the Venice International Film Festival Back. 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 Tese People. The MOST RECENT PROTEST WAS A BIG ONE, AND HE WENT TO IT WITH HIS 13-YEAR-ELD 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.”

Peter SarsGaard at the 2025 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Opening Ceremony Whote He Receive The Kviff President’s Award CourTesy of Film Servis Karlovy Vary
His daughter «Was Really Moved About A Collective Action Like That,“ The Actor Recalled. “I KNOW IT Sems Political, But to Me, ‘No Kings’ Is Not that Political. All The Power Consolidated in the Fewest Number of People Sounds Like Democracy.
At the end of his conversing withis group of reporters, SarsGaard explained what’s Next for HIM after Neuromancer. I a Film with Swiss Director Michael Koch that is Called Erosion. Koch’s A Piece of Sky WAS Made with Non-actors, “so i’lll also be acating 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 the trees brain surgeries, and i’ve been going to so many brain surgeries that at this point i am kind of like felling 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 this. One Place, and He Ends Up in Another.
At one Point Durying Sathoday’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 SOMETING I WOURT LIKE TO DIRECT AT Some POINT, BUT IT WOLD BE A VERY ACTOR-DRIVEN THING. AND I I HAVE An Appreciation for Cinema, and The Visma, and The Visma. HAS THE COMPLETE PACKAGE. ”
The actor most recently starred in Director timlbaum’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 MemoryOPPOSITE Jessica Chastain, SarsGaard Won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 2023 Venice Festival. In series, he have starred in the Likes of Presumered Innocent, The Killingand Dopesick.
In unveiling that hew receve this year’s Honor, Kviff Organizers Lauded SarsGaard for Being “Renoned For His Range and Ability Tors of Hat. In the Actor’s Honor, The Fest Is Screening the 2003 Journalism Drama Shattered Glass.