Peter Sarsgaard joins THR's Scott Feinberg in a new episode of The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast — which was recorded in front of an audience at the Newport Beach Film Festival, where Sarsgaard was honored with the Film Performance of the Year Award.
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00:00Malkovich said to me, you know why they cast you, don't you?
00:05And I was like, well, because Ben Brantley and other stuff like that, you know.
00:12No, no. It's because you sound like me.
00:20I am so thrilled to be here today because we are going to have an opportunity to go in-depth
00:26with this year's recipient of the festival's Film Performance of the Year Award.
00:31Would you please join me in welcoming to the Newport Beach Film Festival, Peter Sarsgaard.
00:36I mean, that movie was an experience that we never came out of.
00:41We shot most nights. We drank most mornings.
00:44We woke up from a hangover in the afternoon and we went back and made the movie.
00:48We had intense relationships going on all the time that were always changing.
00:53And it gave the movie like a real fuel.
00:56You know, this was like a time in my life where I could really like lose my mind.
01:00And I'm glad it paid off.
01:04Yeah.
01:10You want to ask about the nudity?
01:11No, no, no, no.
01:12But if you want to talk about it, it's all you.
01:14I actually will say that it was not scripted that I was naked with Liam.
01:18I said to Bill, I was like, what if I went and took a shower and came back out?
01:22I'm in the towel. I take off the towel and I'm putting on my clothes.
01:25There's a couple of guys hanging out in a hotel room. It's no big deal.
01:28I just happen to be naked. And then maybe I take a little while.
01:31He was like, great. Let's not tell Liam.
01:35And that wasn't a good idea. We should have told Liam.
01:39I'm an actor also who likes to act.
01:42So if somebody says 50 takes, I say 55.
01:46Let's do it. I'm there to act, not sit in my trailer.
01:50With that and everything you've talked about and much, much more,
01:53I would like to present you with the film performance of the year on behalf of the Newport Beach Film Festival.
02:05I think so much of what we're missing today in the world is about that,
02:10is about talking and listening and also about just feeling and you intuiting.
02:19That's another skill that every audience needs to learn is to use something more than this,
02:26their sort of logical mind, their heart mind.
02:30And thank you for picking up what I'm putting down.