Peter Sarsgaard takes wing in 'The Seagull'

Peter Sarsgaard wants to meet in a coffee bar in Brooklyn, but balks when he gets there. It's crowded with 30-somethings in carefully rumpled hair, funky glasses, sleek laptops, expensive jeans and oh-so-cool graphic T-shirts. The flavor of the day seems to be smug. He ducks in for a cup to go, a blueberry muffin and a pound of coffee beans. "It's too trendy in there for me," Sarsgaard says, emerging unrecognized with a laugh. Sarsgaard has a better place in mind for an interview, leaving behind the sort of over-caffeinated hipsters most likely to have reverentially cleared a path for the indie prince. He walks a few blocks to the brownstone building he shares with his wife, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, and 2-year-old daughter, Ramona, and plops down on the stoop. Sarsgaard then proceeds to be perfectly normal. He points with... [read full story]