NYC’s favorite blog GOTHAMIST interviewed Peter Sarsgaard last week, calling the actor a “Park Slope stroller-pusher." Its true – I have seen his familiar face (from GARDEN STATE, JARHEAD and BOYS DON’T CRY) on the sidewalks of Brooklyn holding a newspaper and a cup of coffee, although I had no idea he also recently starred in the Broadway play THE SEAGULL. Or that he was a dad.

Sarsgaard's latest film, AN EDUCATION, opened on October 8th and has received an astonishing amount of praise from critics. Peter Travers, for instance, describes the film as “a quiet miracle of a movie” (Read more). In the film, the actor was presented with the immense challenge of playing a man in his thirties pursuing a 16-year old girl, but he explains to GOTHAMIST that this only made his character more interesting: “You get told what this story is and you think it's going to be Lolita or something. But that's not what he's attracted to. I think he's attracted to youth, which is something that he missed,” he says.

Sarsgaard also starred in Mike White’s 2007 film THE YEAR OF THE DOG and Wayne Wang’s THE CENTER OF THE WORLD. Roger Ebert commended his performance in the latter, saying that its as close to the “real thing” as you get (Read more). You can get both of those films right here on Film Fresh, and you can also let us know what you think about his role in AN EDUCATION. Did Sarsgaard succeed in making his "Humbert Humbert" character a human being worthy of our sympathy?