How Peter Sarsgaard Snuck a Line From ‘Hamlet’ Into ‘The Magnificent Seven’

The Magnificent Seven was No. 1 at the box office over the weekend, and the magnificently evil Bartholomew Bogue, played by Peter Sarsgaard, was a character to be reckoned with. Thanks, in part, to a play by William Shakespeare.

Just before filming Magnificent Seven, Sarsgaard was playing the lead role in Hamlet off Broadway in New York. Yahoo Movies’ own Senior Editor Kevin Polowy asked Sarsgaard what inspired him while playing the bad guy. It turns out that being able to quote Shakespeare was useful.

“I knew that to talk above people, to speak in a way that only made sense to me and not to other people, would be intimidating,” Sarsgaard said. He also told Polowy that there’s a line from Hamlet in the movie, “I beg your pardon, sir. I’ve done you wrong.”

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