Peter Sarsgaard

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Peter Sarsgaard is an enigmatic actor who has appeared in over 60 different roles in films like An Education, The Magnificent Seven and Green Lantern. He got his start in film back in 1995 when he appeared in Dead Man Walking. From there he has obtained critical acclaim for his roles in films such as Boys Don't Cry as well as Kinsey. In 2004 he was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance in Shattered Glass as journalist Charles Lane. Peter's new film is called The Sound of Silence. Peter talks to us about his career, his approach to acting and his love of the game of soccer. Plus, Jesse and Peter dig deeper into the film's study of sound and its impact on human emotion.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.6	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:22.4	Peter Sarsgard is an actor.
0:24.0	He's been in over 60 different roles, films like Shattered Glass, Magnificent 7, The
0:29.8	Green Lantern, and if there's a type that Peter plays, it's guys who are confident and
0:34.5	cool and composed.
0:37.1	Or I guess guys that should be competent, cool and composed, but in some small way are
0:44.0	not.
0:45.7	Like maybe it's a CIA researcher whose personal life unravels when he's been secretly
0:50.4	dosed with LSD, like an Aral Morris' Wormwood, or a charming young guy who turns out to be
0:56.6	something of a confidence man, like in the Academy Award nominated an education, or
1:02.1	like in his latest film The Sound of Silence.
1:05.2	In it he plays Peter Lucien.
1:07.4	Peter is a New York City house tuner, meaning that he is kind of like a sort of scientific
1:13.8	guy who goes around studying ambient sound.
1:18.2	He lives in New York, one of the loudest, busiest cities in the world, and he has made a business
1:23.1	out of creating harmony, like literal harmony, finding ways to match the ambient sounds
1:29.9	in everyone's apartment.
1:31.8	Like say you're feeling tired and down, and the hum of traffic outside your apartment
1:37.4	sounds like an A on the piano.
1:41.1	Why not buy a microwave that cooks in a sea sharp, and add a toaster that hums an E?
1:50.2	It's a beautiful quiet, strange film, and Peter Sarsgard is captivating in it.
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