• Stellan Skarsgård remembers his Good Will Searching costar Robin Williams being "calm," "good," and "beautiful."
• Nonetheless, he says Williams would usually shift into one other gear "when a pair extra folks got here to him," including, "He needed to be humorous to outlive."
• Skarsgård additionally remembers Williams needing to ship a joke as quickly because it got here to him: "He needed to produce it and get it out of the physique. He couldn't reside with it inside."

Stellan Skarsgård is reflecting on his time with Robin Williams on the set of Good Will Hunting.

The Oscar-nominated Sentimental Worth actor shared his recollections of working with Williams at a Q&A following a screening of the 1997 drama in Los Angeles on Friday evening.

"As an individual, whenever you had been alone with him, he was calm and he was good, and he was beautiful, and he may discuss something," Skarsgård stated of his late costar.

Nonetheless, he added, Williams appeared to shift into a unique gear when a number of folks confirmed up. "However then when a pair extra folks got here to him, he immediately would stand up — to avoid wasting himself, in a manner," Skarsgård recalled. "And I feel it's a factor he had from college. He needed to be humorous to outlive."

Gus Van Sant, who directed Good Will Searching and moderated the screening occasion, remembered how Williams requested to carry out extra takes for almost each scene. "Robin was the one which was like, 'Yet another, yet another, yet another,'" the filmmaker stated. "So we did 10 [takes] typically versus perhaps three, as a result of he needed to do a quick one, a gradual one, a cheerful one, a tragic one, a humorous one, a not-funny one."

Skarsgård added that he appreciated the breadth and thoroughness of Williams' work on the Oscar-winning film. "It was unbelievable as a result of, as you stated, he needed to do new takes," the Dune star. "And he additionally had a factor that was type of a necessity for him as a result of… he'd get an concept a couple of joke, as an illustration, and he needed to produce it and get it out of the physique. He couldn't reside with it inside. And I felt on a regular basis that he had three parallel brains working, and really quick!"

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The Breaking the Waves actor stated Williams' sturdy efficiency model challenged him and the remainder of his costars. "The great factor was that he did completely different takes and so they had been actually completely different," he defined. "Some had been very darkish, and a few had been very humorous. And all the opposite actors, we had been hanging in there. We had been enjoying completely different sorts of scenes with him."

Skarsgård additionally marveled at Van Sant and the Good Will Searching editors' skill to include Williams' footage into the movie and obtain the suitable tonal stability. "The fabric you bought [from Robin] could be very attention-grabbing, since you may have reduce that position into turning into a really farcical position, or you could possibly have reduce it into turning into actually depressive," he stated to Van Sant on the screening. "And also you discovered your manner."

Within the movie, Skarsgård portrays Gerald Lambeau, the MIT professor who shepherds the sensible Will Searching (Matt Damon) as he explores complicated arithmetic. Gerald enlists his former faculty roommate, Sean Maguire (Williams), to function Will's therapist, and the 2 mates butt heads about the best way to finest mentor the younger genius.

Regardless of his character's tutorial accomplishments, Skarsgård revealed that he had by no means handled superior math, and that he "didn't attempt to" comprehend the extra difficult topics with which Gerald grappled. "I didn’t perceive it," he stated. "It was far above my math data."

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The film employed real-life mathematician John Mighton to teach Skarsgård via the jargon, and Mighton ended up enjoying Gerald's assistant, Tom. "We had an excellent math professor that taught us and that helped us," the actor stated of Mighton.

"You needed to have him round on a regular basis, so he was normally busy," Van Sant added.

"Yeah, he type of prompted me," Skarsgård stated. "Should you had been explaining one thing, the one factor it’s important to know is that it's expressed the best manner… You don't have to essentially perceive it."

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