Stellan Skarsgård had plenty to celebrate at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards. The Swedish actor and Skarsgård family patriarch took home the Golden Globe for Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Film Role for his role in Sentimental Value.
The now-Oscar frontrunner used his acceptance speech to emphasise the importance of the theatrical experience. “[Sentimental Value] is a small Norwegian film with no money for advertising or anything that gets to see the world in this way,” he said. “Hopefully you will see it in the cinema, because they are an extinguished species now. In a cinema, where the lights go down and eventually you share the pulse with some other people. That is magic. Cinema should be seen in cinemas.”
Stellan Skarsgård says he got wasted at the Golden Globe Awards
The celebrations didn’t end with a toast to cinema, however. Quite rightfully, the veteran actor admitted he got plastered at the show’s afterparty that evening.
Speaking with TMZ on Monday, Stellan was asked about his big night the previous evening. Wearing dark sunglasses, the 74-year-old admitted, “I’m so f*cking tired!”
“I was so drunk last night,” Stellan said, laughing to reporters and autograph hunters.
Stellan previously won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in 2020 for the HBO series Chernobyl. Sentimental Value, a Norwegian film directed by Joachim Trier, was nominated for eight awards at Sunday’s ceremony. These included Best Motion Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, taking home one with Stellan’s win.
Although Sentimental Value only won one out of eight awards it was nominated for, the film is hotly tipped to be one of the most-recognized films at the upcoming Academy Award nominations ceremony on January 22. With Stellan’s big win and rousing speech at the Globes, this seems like an inevitability.
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