What is that?
It turns out to be Peter Sarsgaard, who is currently starring in the film Memory (in theaters Dec. 22), not only has a passion for acting, but also for pottering around the garden like a good old Brooklyn dad.
“A lot of what I do in my spare time is beekeeping and gardening,” the actor reveals to PEOPLE, adding that he keeps beehives in his backyard in Brooklyn.
“My neighbors don’t have a problem with my bees. In fact, there’s a kid who lives next door who likes them so he’ll come over, and I’ll stand in front of the hives and show him that the bees won’t do anything,” adds Sarsgaard, 52.
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In fact, the father-of-two says he wishes people knew that bees never set out to sting people – it’s “wasp behavior”.
“Bees get blamed for a lot of wasp behavior, but the things they sting are usually wasps or hornets,” he says. “Bees don’t usually do that. They do everything right.”
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As for whether he makes honey, Sarsgaard jokes, “Well, bees make honey. I just steal it from them.”
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Sarsgaard says she also likes to plant, admitting, “I’m not much of a vegetable gardener. I like perennial gardening and planting flowers and plants that change the landscape.”
The acclaimed actor, who recently won Best Actor at the Venice International Film Festival for Memorywhere he plays a man with early-onset dementia, he says that when he’s not working, he likes to be at home with his wife, Maggie Gylenhaal, and their two daughters, or walking his “very loyal” birdie dog.
Maggie and Peter Sarsgaard at the Venice International Film Festival on September 9.
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“I know everything,” he says of the area where he lives. “I like interacting with my neighbors and the neighborhood.”
And if someone recognizes him from a job he did during his 30-year career? – I have nothing against it! Sarsgaard says. “That’s fine. But I’ve been here so long that the excitement is completely gone.”
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