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No./ 8 “It’s not the best date-night movie if you want to get laid”

STELLAN SKARSGÅRD IS not afraid of stirring up trouble. The veteran Swedish actor is just as at home courting controversy with film such as as he is singing to ABBA in . His latest — a brief turn as a Nazi soldier in , a gruelling black-and-white World War II drama with savage scenes of violence — is as controversial as they come. Now 69 andabout violence on screen, his old pal Lars von Trier, falling asleep in front of Diane Keaton and his future in the MCU.

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