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Peter Sarsgaard Discusses "The Skeleton Key"

Interview with Peter Sarsgaard from the World Premiere of "The Skeleton Key"

By Rebecca Murray, About.com

Peter Sarsgaard stars in "The Skeleton Key"

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Peter Sarsgaard plays affable estate lawyer Luke Marshall in "The Skeleton Key," a supernatural thriller directed by Iain Softley and starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, and John Hurt.

"The Skeleton Key" is set outside of New Orleans in what feels like a world decades apart from contemporary times. Hudson stars as Caroline Ellis, a hospice worker who takes a job as a live-in nurse to an elderly couple who live in a dark and foreboding mansion in the middle of nowhere. Given a key that opens every door in the mansion, Caroline discovers a hidden attic room that holds a terrifying secret. Peter Sarsgaard co-stars as Luke, a local attorney working on the couple's estate.

Catching up with the critically acclaimed actor at the World Premiere of "The Skeleton Key," I had the chance to find out why he was attracted to the part of a Southern lawyer in "The Skeleton Key," the reason it was necessary to film this movie in New Orleans, and weird happenings on the film's set:

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