Peter Sarsgaard speaks about the challenges of playing a homicide detective and how it differs from one of his most famous roles in Boys Don’t Cry.
Peter Sarsgaard always chooses interesting roles, whether they’re death row inmates like on The Killing or his newest part as an abusive husband in Lovelace. “I look at what comes in front of me and try to pick the best material,” he said in an interview with Yahoo! News. “I’m
Peter Sarsgaard was initially reluctant to sign onto the third season of AMC’s The Killing…mostly because he thought the series had already been cancelled.
Langella talks about how he feels about still getting great roles at his age and how he managed to act against the “robot.”
It seems like almost every septuagenarian actor is required to do at least one “grumpy old man” movie role in which its pretty typical for such a character to go from a cranky and surly old coot to a smiling, kindly grandfather with a young heart by the end of the film. Thankfully, in Robot and Frank director Jake Schreier and writer Christopher D. Ford, with a great performance by Frank Langella, find a way around that cliche by sticking the grumpy old man with… a robot pal.
