Stellan Skarsgard has branded Donald Trump a "little man who got megalomania".

The Swedish actor hit out at the US leader for his "absurd" actions, including overseeing the ousting of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his attemmpts to annex Greenland.

Speaking to Polish news outlet Interia, he said: "It's absurd, isn't it?

"It's a little man who got megalomania, and he's trying to take the world.

"He took Venezuela, suddenly, and that's for Chevron. He'll take Greenland for minerals. He's a criminal."

Meanwhile, Stellan - who has Alexander, 49, Gustaf, 44, Sam, 43, Bill, 35, Eija, 33, and Valter, 29, with his first wife My Skarsgard as well as Ossian, 16, and Kolbjorn, 13, with his second wife Megan Everett - recently expressed his belief that he doesn't think it is possible to be a "good parent to a kid".

The 74-year-old actor admitted one of his kids has compared him to Gustav, the egocentric director and absent father he plays in his new movie Sentimental Value.

Insisted he wasn't offended that the role was written with him in mind, Stellan told The Independent: "It's never an insult, because I don't play myself usually. I don't think they can know my personality.

"And I never thought of Gustav as being like me in any way. Our situations are similar, but it's totally different. Or at least, I thought so until my son saw the film and said to me, 'You recognise yourself?' I said, no!

"But of course, they see things that I don't see - but you can never satisfy a kid. You can never be a good parent to a kid, because truthfully, they have things to complain about because we're only human - and they're not perfect either. So you've got to live with it."

However, Stellan has a good relationship with his children but admitted he wasn't always a "present" father when they were younger.

He said: "I realised more that maybe I wasn't totally present when my kids were growing up. But I have eight kids - it's f****** impossible...

"I have been very tolerant to my kids, and they have to be tolerant of me, too. I've let them go and do whatever they want, and they can let me go and do whatever I want."

And the Dune actor admitted he wouldn't have been happy as a dad standing on the sidelines watching his kids play sport.

He said: "It would be so boring. I would die."