My complicated relationship with Bergman has to do with the fact that he was not a particularly nice guy. He was a good director, but you can still call a person a bastard, says Skarsgård according to Variety.
The actor, who during the festival was awarded this year's Crystal Globe prize for "Outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema", also described the master director as a Nazi sympathizer.
Bergman was manipulative. He was a Nazi during the war and the only person I know who cried when Hitler died. We continued to excuse him, but I have a feeling that he had a very strange view of other people, says Skarsgård.
"Become more skilled"
In more positive terms, Skarsgård describes the Norwegian director Joachim Trier, whose film won the jury prize in Cannes.
I have noticed how he really sees the actors he works with. He has become more skilled with each film and there is a playfulness that is very generous, says Skarsgård.
Deficiencies as a parent
In "Sentimental Value", two sisters are reunited with their divorced father, Gustav, who was previously a well-known director. He offers one of them a role in his comeback film.
This is a director who is not a particularly good father. I started thinking about other directors I knew and then thought: 'Look at yourself instead.' I am an artist, and sometimes I am a good father, and sometimes not so good. We all have deficiencies. You can be a good parent but not perfect, and you will be accused of something by your children anyway, says the father of eight.
