Stellan Skarsgård See the value of having a good meal, especially when you are on a set. Said the actor During Karlovy, the film festival variesvia Amountthat he chose to take half a million crown pay (approximately $ 50,000) for Joachim Trier “Sentimental value” To ensure that the crew received good lunches from craft services.
“I would not be (an executive producer) at first, but I said, ‘I would never film in Norway without having a special contract. ‘After (Erik Skjoldbjærg’s film from 1997)’ ‘Insomnia“I gathered the entire crew and said,” I will never film in this country again – unless we have a good lunch, “Skarsgård said.” I dropped eight pounds on “insomnia.” We would usually get a bread, it is advance and a plastic salami. So it is! I have made other films in Norway since then, but it has always said in my contract that everyone should have lunches with the highest European standard. And it’s expensive. Norway, they are the richest country, but they do not want to spend money on food. ”
Skarsgård’s bad experience of “insomnia” led him to take things in his own hands for “Sentimental value“Who won the Grand Prix on Cannes 2025 and is already an Oscar challenger 2026.
“I went down, I think, half a million kronor in my salary to pay for this, for the food for everyone,” he said. “And the producer said:“ You get credit for it. “The food must also be served on real porcelain – no plastic, paper bags or whatever.
Skarsgård compared his taste for food to his taste for moviesSaying, “There’s a lot of people who limit what they eat. ‘I’m not eating meat,’ they say. I eat everything. I have this appetite for life, but also, it’s not a genre that makes the movie bad. Directors. Like ‘Ronin’ with John Frankenheimer, ‘Dune’ with Denis Villeneuve or My First Marvel Film. Unfortunately I had to register for four of them. But the first was directed by Kenneth Branagh! “
He continued, “they are valid projects, even though they are part of the big system. What is bad about the system is something that has to do with the neo-Capitalist society we live in, where everything is owned by securities companies. Like when AT&T, a damn telephone company, took over time Warner. A telephone company! Our 15%. ‘It’s horrible. ”
Read IndieWire’s latest interview with Skarsgård about “Sentimental Value” here.
