I was perusing Variety this morning and came across a really interesting article that digs into Ingmar Bergman's past. Look, at the top here, we're going to have to say that it's totally fine if you want to separate the art from the artist, I do that all the time. But I also want to know who is creating the art, and it can be important to dissect what it all means. That's part of media literacy. So, I want to dig into some comments made by actor Stellan Skarsgård, who has labeled legendary director Ingmar Bergman a "Nazi."Stellan Skarsgård, known for his roles in Dune and the Mamma Mia! franchise, did not mince words when discussing his complex relationship with iconic filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Skarsgård worked with Bergman on the 1983 TV adaptation of Molière's The School for Wives. He said of the director, “My complicated relationship with Bergman has to do with him not being a very nice guy. He was a nice director, but you can still denounce a person as an asshole. Caravaggio was probably an asshole as well, but he did great paintings."Skarsgård went on to say, “Bergman was manipulative. He was a Nazi during the war, and the only person I know who cried when Hitler died. We kept excusing him, but I have a feeling he had a very weird outlook on other people. [He thought] some people were not worthy. You felt it when he was manipulating others. He wasn’t nice.”These comments...
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