Stellan Skarsgård

Not at all.

He's from a different generation.

He's a different kind of father than I am.

Of course, the conflict between working as an artist and combining that with a personal life is difficult.

And those problems I have.

But that goes for every artist.

But I didn't think I had anything to do with the role at all.

So I did the entire film as if it was a stranger I was doing.

But then my second son, Gustav, said to me, after having seen the film that he liked very much, that he said to me, do you recognize yourself?

And I went, no.

And he said, look again.

And even if I was at home basically eight months of 12, I only worked four months a year since 1989.

If I was at home eight months a year, I wasn't enough home for him.

So I started to thinking about it.

What became clear to me is, I mean, I have eight children.

So I have eight different needs.

Some children need me a lot and some don't need me at all.

So you can't get it right as a parent.

He and the writer Eskel Fugt.

He says that the role was such a bad guy that he needed someone nice to do it.