The 46-year-old Oscar winner, who is starring in the drama Memory by Michel Franco, said to News: “I sometimes play people who are really smart. Being the most intelligent person in the room, they are aware of what will happen.
She portrays Sylvia, a sobering alcoholic whose old trauma is reactivated when Peter Sarsgaard’s character Saul follows her home after their reunion from high school.
Sarsgaard, star of Dopesick, adds, “As long as they listen, I don’t mind the smartest person in the room.”
He tells News, “I remember when my wife was younger, some arsehole telling her, ‘Oh, you always have to be the smartest person in the room, don’t you?'” He has been happily married to Oscar-nominated actress Maggie Gyllenhaal for 15 years.
“And I think that’s something that’s levelled on people, certain women, especially, and those same people, if they’re really good at what they do, also really listen” .
