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Sarsgaard Pushes A Man To Suicide In Seagull
By Emily McDonald: 2008-09-30 16:38:17
Although Peter Sarsgaard and his wife, Maggie Gyllenhaal take turns on acting jobs, and she just so happens to be filming Crazy Heart, he could not pass up the opportunity to be underpaid on stage and portray Trigorin in an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull.” With the track record of playing villains in movies like Boys Don’t Cry and The Center of the World and unflattering characters in ones like Jarhead and Garden State, it’s no surprise that Sarsgaard is playing towards the axis of evil. He tells the AP: “I think sometimes I’ve been told that I play a villain sympathetically. I don’t think that’s actually what I’m doing. I’m just trying to get at the undercurrent of something.” His character in the play, Trigorin, pushes a man to suicide! Sarsgaard works along Kristin Scott Thomas, Mackenzie Crook and Carey Mulligan and had been the only actor in the show playing his role with an American accent until recently. He decided to switch it over to an English accent. He thought that his American accent was “creat[ing] and immediate connection between the character most likely to be hated and the audience.” Apparently, he wasn’t interested in encouraging that connection. Although he’s clearly into playing characters of moral ambiguity, Sarsgaard has no interest in playing gratuitously violent villains. He claims “I try to wake up the side that actually gets horrified by somebody getting dismembered. Real feelings about real things that people actually have are my territory.” Sounds like he’s still got a soul, if you ask me.
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