Skarsgard Jokes His Famous Children Taught Him What a Bad Father Is

The father to Bill and Alexander Skarsgard earned supporting actor for Sentimental Value.

A father to many famous stars, Stella Sarsgard counts Alexander Skarsgard and Bill Alexander Skarsgard among his eight children, along with Swedish actors Gustaf, Valter, Ossian and Kolbjörn.

His real-life fathering helped inform his work in Sentimental Value, he said as he accepted the supporting actor in a motion picture award “My children have been very educational. I’m playing a father who is a bad father. And my children have really told me what a bad father is,” deadpanned the actor, who previously won acclaim for HBO’s Chernobyl.

He stars as a director who has a fraught relationship with his daughters, played by Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Joachim Trier’s film.

He also used his speech to tout the sanctity of movie theaters at a time when box office has never recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic and streaming service Netflix is about to acquire Warner.

“It’s small Norwegian film with no money for advertising or anything,” he said. “Hopefully, you see it in a cinema, because they are an extinguished species now. In a cinema, the lights go down and eventually you share the pulse with some other people cinema.”

Other men in Sunday night were Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another), Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Paul Mescal (Hamnet), Sean Penn (One Battle After Another) and
Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly).

Oscar Actors: Skarsgard, Stellan–Best. Supp. Actor, “Sentimental Value”

Skarsgard Jokes His Famous Children Taught Him What a Bad Father Is

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