Gustaf Skarsgard Leads 'Patrik 1,5'

Patrik 1,5
Gustaf Skarsgard will play the lead in Swedish helmer Ella Lemhagen's "Patrik 1,5."

Skarsgard, one of Variety's 10 Euro actors to watch, will play a gay man who, with his partner (Torkel Pettersson), adopts an orphaned Swedish boy. They think the boy is a 1½ years old, but when he arrives, he turns out to be a 15-year-old with criminal tendencies who hates gays.