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He recounts an irreverant anecdote to make his point: “It’s like when [in “Dogville”] I had raped Nicole Kidman five times, very successfully in different ways, and he says ‘Stellan? Do you think you could play it as a romantic comedy?’ and I say, ‘Yes, Lars, of course I’ll try that’ and I’m thinking Hugh Grant, Hugh Grant, Hugh Grant, Hugh Grant, and I go in and I’m very charming and I really try to rape her in a pleasant way for her. And of course the scene doesn’t work but there are one or two lines that, because of the different angle of attack, suddenly oh! you’ve found something interesting.” Von Trier incorporated the lines that worked from that take into the finished film so yes, in a few shots in “Dogville” Skarsgård is apparently channeling Hugh Grant.
Heh.
