The actor, who opened up about his previous collaborators at the 2025 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, previously spoke at length about not wanting Bergman in his life.
Few actors today can toggle between massive blockbusters, like “Dune,” and small-scale auteurist works, such as Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” with the ease of Stellan Skarsgård. And few are quite as candid when they open up.
As reported by Variety from the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where the actor was promoting “Sentimental Value” and on hand for a tribute, Skarsgård made some startling comments about Ingmar Bergman, whom the Swedish actor worked for on a 1986 stage production of August Strindberg’s “A Dream Play.”
The actor talked about his personal dislike of Bergman, whom he found to be tyrannical and manipulative. Skarsgård links Bergman’s attitude as a director to the fact that Bergman was a Nazi supporter during World War II. This may be new information to more casual cinephiles now, but Bergman’s Nazi sympathies are widely known. Bergman never hid this, and admitted his affinity for Nazism was not just a teenage infatuation — it was only when the Holocaust’s atrocities were revealed at World War II’s end that he completely disavowed Hitler and Nazism.
“Bergman was manipulative,” Skarsgård said. “He was a Nazi during the war and the only person I know who cried when Hitler died. We kept excusing him, but I have a feeling he had a very weird outlook on other people. [He thought] some people were not worthy. You felt it, when he was manipulating others. He wasn’t nice.” (more...)
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