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Prolific Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård He has opened up about the challenges he has faced since suffering a scary stroke three years ago.
74 year old good will Hunting starwho is currently involved Joachim Trier’s latest comedy drama, sentimental valueIt was revealed in January that the stroke affected some of his mental abilities, forcing him to now use new technology when filming.
talking to vulture In a new interview, the father of eight revealed that the medical emergency – which happened three years ago, “between one and two” internal management and and one and two Dune” – Left your logic and language weak. “I feel like I can’t fight. I can’t discuss,” Skarsgård said, admitting that the stroke has left him “really scared.”
Yet, despite his linguistic struggles, Skarsgård said that with the help of innovative technology, he has “found a way” to make it work.
“They have earpieces where you have a prompter who says the lines,” he explained. “It’s not enough because I have my own rhythm. They have to say their line over my line for me to be able to respond to it. They have to say it very fast, very neutral. It takes a lot of training for that person.
“You can say, ‘Oh, you’re lucky. You don’t have to learn your lines,'” he adds. “There’s more work now than before. Suddenly, I can’t come up with names. I can’t follow an idea or make an argument that spans several sentences that gets to the point – then, Collide! This is extremely disappointing. But on the other hand, I am alive. I can work.”
He further addressed his own mortality, admitting that he is not afraid of death itself. “I’m not afraid to die,” the Hey mother! The actor said, “But I have a fear of not being able to live. That’s a fear. And being boring.”
Skarsgård quipped that “With all eight of my children, there’s one thing I’m afraid of every time I have a new baby. It’s not that they have Down syndrome or that they’re autistic… that they’re boring. Luckily, none of them were like that.”
Six of his eight children followed in his footsteps and became actors themselves, including his eldest, Alexander (true Blood, big little lies), Gustaf (vikings, black bag), and this it Franchise star Bill.
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However, he will not do this consider them nepo baby“I consider myself Nepo Daddy,” Skarsgård joked, “because I get a lot of goodwill and probably jobs because of him.”