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Humanity must work together or else, Peter Sarsgaard<\/a>\u00a0(Dead Man Walking,\u00a0Boys Don\u2019t Cry) told reporters during a Saturday roundtable interview conducted as part of the\u00a059th edition<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Karlovy Vary International Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0(KVIFF<\/a>), in which he also explained why he joined a \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest<\/a> on U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s birthday, and why he doesn\u2019t believe in Elon Musk\u2019s Mars colonization<\/a> plans as a way to safe the human race.<\/p>\n Sarsgaard shared his thoughts and insights after receiving the KVIFF President\u2019s Award during the festival opening ceremony<\/a> on Friday night. In his acceptance speech<\/a>, he spoke out against divisions, especially in the U.S., saying: \u201cThe enemies are the forces that divide us.\u201d He added: \u201cThere is no going it alone. As my country retreats from its global responsibilities and tries to go it alone, it is also being divided into factions from within \u2014 factions of politics, gender, sexuality, race, Jews split over the war.\u201d Sarsgaard\u2019s wife, Maggie Gyllenhaal, identifies as Jewish.<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Given such dangers as climate change and nuclear or other war, Sarsgaard said: \u201cWe\u2019re all going to die. Our children are all going to live on the same planet, and maybe Elon [Musk]\u2019s will live on Mars. It doesn\u2019t look that nice to me. I think you have to be born on Mars and never have seen Earth to think Mars is nice.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cWe\u2019re all fucked. So we have to connect. It\u2019s very simple. That\u2019s not even political. I\u2019m not political in that way. I\u2019m not endorsing candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n Sarsgaard first referenced Musk when asked about his upcoming Apple TV+ series, the book adaptation Neuromancer, which he is currently shooting. \u201cI play a guy who has created a kind of AI that is used all over the world, and he\u2019s basically the most powerful, richest guy in the world,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd because the world is going to shit, he has a place where he can be that\u2019s [far] away. So, I\u2019m playing this guy who sort of manages to really get away, away from Earth, Elon Musk-style \u2013 \u2018we\u2019ll just go to Mars while this one goes to shit.\u2019 There is no place to go! So that really interested me.\u201d<\/p>\n Sarsgaard then mentioned how apocalypse-fearing technology and other billionaires have been building survivalist bunkers. \u201cI\u2019ve heard more rich people talk about this. Many wealthy people are buying properties, say, in New Zealand, and they\u2019ve heard that that\u2019s the place to be,\u201d he explained. \u201cThere is no fucking place to be unless you have a nuclear arsenal to keep everyone else at bay!! There is no place to go. We\u2019re all in this together. So that theme interested me. I was also a big fan of the book. I read it in high school, and I just loved a lot of the language. I\u2019m going to get to meet [the author] William Gibson. He\u2019s in the show, and he had lines like \u2018undulating tsunamis of delight.\u2019 I remember a lot of the language is so muscular and crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n The star also shared that he has his own place far away, but he doesn\u2019t expect to be safe there if a catastrophe strikes. \u201cI actually have a piece of property that is way out in the woods and has its own water source,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great place to be, maybe, for climate change. And I hear people say this sometimes: \u2018Where\u2019s the best place to be for climate change?\u2019 When it happens, there\u2019s no place to be, because you think the world is going to stay in the desert, where there\u2019s no water? Everyone\u2019s going to go. They don\u2019t care that you own the property.\u201d<\/p>\n Notably, the theme of AI and machines having an increasing role in replacing human interactions also plays into Sarsgaard\u2019s worry about a lack of social connections. In 2023, Sarsgaard warned about AI. \u201cI think we can all really agree that an actor is a person and that a writer is a person, but apparently we can\u2019t,\u201d he said at the Venice International Film Festival back then. He urged the industry not to hand over stories about connections \u201cto the machines and the eight billionaires that own them.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking of billionaires, Sarsgaard told reporters in Karlovy Vary on Saturday that, \u201cI like going to a protest sometimes to look at all these people. \u2018We can do it! We all believe in something bigger\u2019.\u201d The most recent protest was a big one, and he went to it with his 13-year-old daughter. \u201cI went to the one on Trump\u2019s birthday, the anti-Trump\u2019s birthday \u2013 the \u2018No Kings\u2019 protest,\u201d he said. \u201cI went to the one that was right outside the New York Public Library.\u201d<\/p>\n His daughter \u201cwas really moved about a collective action like that,\u201d the actor recalled. \u201cI know it seems political, but to me, \u2018No Kings\u2019 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\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n At the end of his conversation with this group of reporters, Sarsgaard explained what\u2019s next for him after Neuromancer. It\u2019s a film with Swiss director Michael Koch that is called Erosion. Koch\u2019s A Piece of Sky was made with non-actors, \u201cso I\u2019ll also be acting with mostly non-actors,\u201d the star explained. \u201cWe\u2019re filming it in Lucerne. He wrote the role for me.\u201d<\/p>\n He portrays a skilled person. \u201cI play a brain surgeon,\u201d Sarsgaard said. \u201cI\u2019ve been going to all these brain surgeries, and I\u2019ve been going to so many brain surgeries that at this point I am kind of like feeling I could do it.\u201d<\/p>\n He also shared about the role: \u201cIt\u2019s a really huge canvas for me as an actor. I\u2019m in every frame of the movie, and it\u2019s not just a lead role in that sense. It\u2019s a character who really goes somewhere. He starts in one place, and he ends up in another. I don\u2019t know where it will be. I\u2019m curious, and I really trust this director. He\u2019s a really visual storyteller, and so I think that will be a very good combination.\u201d<\/p>\n At one point during Saturday\u2019s conversation, Sarsgaard lauded his wife, Gyllenhaal, for being such a knowledgeable director. Could fans ever see him take a seat in the director\u2019s chair? \u201cMaybe I have one movie in me to direct one day,\u201d he replied. \u201cI actually have an idea for something I would like to direct at some point, but it would be a very actor-driven thing. And I have an appreciation for cinema, and the visual telling of the story, but my wife has the complete package.\u201d<\/p>\n The actor most recently starred in director Tim Fehlbaum\u2019s\u00a0September 5. He has also wrapped production on Warner Bros.\u2019\u00a0The Bride!,\u00a0which 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.<\/p>\n For his role as a man suffering from dementia in Michel Franco\u2019s\u00a0Memory<\/a>, opposite Jessica Chastain, Sarsgaard won the Volpi Cup for best actor at the 2023 Venice<\/a> festival. In series, he has starred in the likes of Presumed Innocent, The Killing, and Dopesick.<\/p>\n In unveiling that he would receive this year\u2019s honor, KVIFF organizers lauded Sarsgaard for being \u201crenowned for his range and ability to access what is behind the often-complicated facades of the characters he plays.\u201d In the actor\u2019s honor, the fest is screening the 2003 journalism drama\u00a0Shattered Glass.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. 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