Dave Davies

What effect did that have on you in your life?

Do you remember how they did that?

Right.

I wanted to talk about a film that I gather was kind of a breakthrough project for you.

1996, the film is Breaking the Waves.

It was your first film with the Danish director Lars von Trier, right?

And you star with a very young Emily Watson.

I think this was her first film.

A lot of sex in this movie, which was interesting.

I mean, you were a little older than her.

You were kind of in the mid-40s.

She was late 20s.

Anyway, I want to play a clip here.

You play a man who works on an oil rig off the coast of Scotland and she plays a young woman in a very conservative coastal town near the rig.

And the two of you fall in love, get married, have an active and very actively portrayed sex life in the film.

And then your character, Jan, is injured in an accident and paralyzed from the neck down.

Bess, your now wife, is devoted to you.

And in this scene, she is at your bedside and you make a request of her.

Let's listen.

And that is our guest, Stellan Skarsgård, in the 1996 film Breaking the Waves with Emily Watson.