Angels & Demons Actor Hates Angels & Demons Book
Here's how you know that actor Stellan Skarsgard is European (besides, y'know, the name): instead of just reading the studio coverage of Dan Brown's novel Angels & Demons before accepting a role in the film it spawned, he actually read the book. The Dan Brown book. And he has a couple of words on the subject:
"I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliffhangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading," Skarsgard told Swedish broadcaster SVT.
"It's like eating peanuts at a bar. You don't like them, but you keep on eating them anyway," he said.
Sadly, Skarsgard's quote will likely gain more media traction than director Ron Howard's similar Peeps allegory. ("The cliffhangers are tasty, numerous, and not at all defamatory to the Catholic Church. Yum!")
· 'Angels & Demons' Actor: Dan Brown 'A Terribly Bad Writer' [HuffPo]
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Here, here, Stellan. After The Da Vinci Code (the book), one couldn't pay me enough to read another Dan Brown remedial-English-paper.
One could, however, apparently pay you enough to appear in films born of the author you so dislike.
I love that he's critical of the book. Dan Brown IS a hack, and bestsellers are more often than not crapfactories.
Stellan gets to make a living, right?
I for one like the cut of his jibe.
See what I did there?
I actually did NOT see what you did there but nevertheless will comment.
And yeah...both books are the same.
Who the hells is that on the "Angels&Demons" poster?? It sure ain't Tom Hanks! Looks like Russell Crowe after a bender??!!!
...Stellan reached the last paragraph on his contract and saw it. The numbers.
His eyes went wide and his jaws dropped. After a long, measured breath, he popped a cigarette in his mouth and lit it.
"Hell, I was in Deep Blue Sea, wasn't I?" he quipped as he lit his smoke and picked up his pen.
It's like peering into Stephen Dorff's unfortunate future.