74-year-old Swedish powerhouse actor Stellan Skarsgård, who won the Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actor as early as 1982 for "The Simple-Minded Murderer," is one of the most active European faces in Hollywood blockbusters. On the 13th, he was awarded the Crystal Globe Award at the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, in recognition of his outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema. During the festival, he shocked the film industry by bluntly calling fellow Swedish film master Ingmar Bergman a "Nazi," even revealing, "Of all the people I know, he was the only one who cried when Hitler died." He directly described Bergman as a jerk, and his sharp comments caused a sensation in the film world!
When Skarsgård spoke about his experience working with Bergman, his words left the media at a loss for words, as he made no attempt to hide his feelings: "My relationship with Bergman is complicated because he really wasn't a very likable person. He was a good director, but you could still say he was a jerk." His straightforward personality was on full display.
Why did he think Bergman was a jerk? Skarsgård's following words made everything clear: "Bergman was very manipulative. During the war, he was a Nazi, and of all the people I know, he was the only one who cried when Hitler died. We've always made excuses for him, but I always felt he had a very strange way of looking at people. He thought some people were just not worth it. You could feel it when he was manipulating others. He wasn't warm."
Source: Apple Online News