Interviews and Photo Shoots 2015

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Interviews 2015 - 2016

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Originally Posted by:

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Jan 23 15 9:24 PM


Sundance Film Festival 2015: The Diary of a Teenage Girl

The cast of "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," share their experiences at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Originally posted by
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Jan 24 15 2:10 AM

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Diary of a Teenage Girl from Sundance.
Jan 24 15 6:11 AM


IMBD Interview with Alex. Bel and Marielle Heller.


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More than likely a version will pop up on youtube that can be embeded. Until then enjoy via the link.

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Originally Posted by davischristinem
Jan 26 15 6:34 PM

Alex Talks About His Roles, and Rumors....Yes, Yes, and Hell Yes!


Alexander Skarsgard On His Sundance Hit & The Problem With Relationship Rumors

The big-screen adaptation of Phoebe Gloekner’s beloved illustrated 2002 novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl just premiered at Sundance, and this tricky flick about a 15-year-old girl in the swinging ’70s of San Francisco was immediately hailed as “ideally cast and skillfully handled” and “remarkably vibrant and frank.” Minnie (Bel Powley) has lost her virginity, but her louche lover is also her mom’s boyfriend, Monroe, played by Alexander Skarsgard. With the adapted script and direction by Marielle Heller, Skarsgard manages to make Monroe not exactly sympathetic, but a little more complicated than your typical after-school special, warning against adult predators. In addition to excellent ’70s style and an even cooler soundtrack, Diary has a wonderful visual style that incorporates animation. Plus, Kristen Wiig is in serious drama mode as a mom with plenty of problems, not the least of which is her fondness for drugs and a general disregard for personal boundaries.

Refinery29 sat down with Skarsgard at Sundance in the Acura Press Lounge to chat about doing drama, relationship rumors, and much more.

One thing that really struck me about this movie is that I’ve never seen an American movie that treats teen, female sexuality this way. Did it give you some sort of insight what it was like to be a teen girl?

Alex: “I felt that when I read the script. I felt that it was a unique story — a story that hadn’t been told before. It’s a really brave script. I think it’s a shame that we have seen so many coming-of-age stories with boys where they address sexuality, but when it comes to girls, they’re always waiting on the knight in shining armor to come in on the white stallion to save them, you know? As if the only thing teenage girls think about is marriage and kids, which I think makes young girls uncomfortable. Or, teen girls feel like that there’s something wrong with them if they think about sex, because, again, you never see that. So, it was very refreshing to read a script where a girl actually can address that.”

As a grown woman who was once a 15-year-old girl, it’s interesting for me to watch this and sympathize with her in wanting to have this sexy affair with an older man, and as an adult, know that that’s an abuse of power and wrong and terrible. It’s this mélange of hot but dirty but wrong…

Alex: ”Right, and we spent a lot of time in prep talking about that relationship and making it nuanced and layered. It was important to me that Monroe wasn’t just a predator. It was important to find moments between Monroe and Minnie that were genuine and were real. Monroe kind of pulls himself out of that, and, like you said, realizes, ‘This is wrong, I’m a grown man. This is not [okay].’ But, then he’s drawn back into it again. So, it’s a very complex and interesting relationship to me.”

The Diary of a Teenage Girl book has such an intense fan base who are drawn to feminism, comic books, subversive art, sexuality — all that kind of stuff. It’s daring to take it on, and it’s always exciting to see a female writer and director.

Alex: ”Right, and one who’s so badass and so good, you know? [laughs] When I met [director] Mari [Heller], she had that energy and that intensity, and I felt immediately that I wanted to work with this woman.”

Of course I was a huge fan of True Blood, but I’m also a fan of your work in The East, Melancholia, What Maisie Knew — all of these roles that seem to subvert your sexy image. Are you taking parts like these on purpose?

Alex: ”Not at all. I really don’t have a plan or a strategy. When I read a script, it’s very basic. It’s all about do I connect or not? Is this something I’m creatively excited about? The combination of the script and meeting the filmmaker — you’re either excited or you’re not. I can’t say what I’m going to be excited about, or a specific genre, or a specific type of director, or a specific role. I have a tendency to be more inspired and more excited if it’s something that I feel like I haven’t done, you know?

"When I was on True Blood, every hiatus, I did actively search for roles that were different. Not because I felt that I needed to show people that I could play someone other than Eric Northman, but because I creatively wasn’t interested in — after shooting the show for seven months — going straight from that to playing a character that was exactly the same. Those three films that you mentioned were movies where I really felt like they were characters I hadn’t played before, and they had filmmakers that I was really excited to work with."

It seems that every time you’re seen out with a woman, there are relationship rumors — as there were in 2013 with Ellen Page. Does that make your life harder, or do you just ignore it?

Alex: ”Well, I ignore it. I don’t buy those magazines, and I don’t read those sites. I realize that that’s the reality. If I go to a hockey game with Ellen — who is a super dear friend of mine who I really bonded with while filming The East — I understand that if we hang out or get coffee, there might be rumors that we’re dating or whatever. But, I don’t care. I’m not going to not see my friends because of that. I’m not going to let rumors dictate what I do or how I lead my life.”

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Source/Author: Refinery29.com via author JenniMiller's twitter, Photo credit:Original: Alexanderskarsgard.org

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Jan 26 15 9:06 PM

I'm Wanting to See This Movie!
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DAY 3: THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, SLOW WEST, AND MORE

THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

by Jeremy Kinser

While introducing The Diary of a Teenage Girl, which premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, David Courier prepared the audience to meet two striking new talents. The Festival’s senior programmer noted that he was honored to have Marielle Heller, a veteran of the Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Labs, return with her debut feature, and predicted actress Bel Powley’s future is “so bright that we’re going to be seeing her work here for years to come.”

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Alexander Skarsgård prior to the premiere of “The Diary of a Teenage Girl.” ©Sundance Institute | Jonathan Hickerson

This wasn’t typical pre-screening hyperbole. The film, based on a graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner, is indeed a remarkable debut for both Heller and Powley, a British actress who carries the film with complete assurance, as well as a faultless American accent. Powley stars as Minnie, a lonely, precocious 15-year-old in 1976 San Francisco who finds the attention she yearns for through sex with Monroe, the 35-year-old boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgård) of her drug-using mother, Charlotte (Kristen Wiig). Minnie creates a diary of sorts to document her secret affair using expressive illustrations and brutally honest messages spoken into her tape recorder.

Heller’s film has the hazy look of a faded 1970s Polaroid and she unobtrusively integrates animation, some of it based on Minnie’s drawings and others inspired by the comic books she reads. The director said she found Gloeckner’s book to be a revelation. “I never encountered such an honest portrayal of a teenage girl,” she told that audience. “I found her to be so vulnerable and brave and funny and embarrassing and smart and exciting.”

The film received sustained applause after the screening ended, and many in the audience were curious how Heller found her perfectly-cast leading lady. “Bel submitted an audition tape from England and did her whole audition with an American accent and I didn’t realize she was British until the end when she delivered a personal message to me,” Heller said.

Powley said the whole experience was incredible and she was overwhelmed by the response. “I read the script and I’d never read anything like it,” she shared. “It was something I related to in so many ways. I thought I have to be in this.”

Skarsgård, who achieves a small miracle here by making his character extremely likable and surprisingly uncreepy, explained how he developed such chemistry with his young co-star. “We had three weeks in San Francisco before Kristen joined us so we rehearsed,” he revealed. “We shot our scenes first and I think they went pretty good because when Kristin got there we had a secret.”

Source: Sundance.org, Photos: Justin Bishop for Vanity Fair

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Originally posted by Misscat

Jan 27 15 10:16 AM

I can't embed the videos here but there are some cute interviews with Alex, Bel and Kristen from

Hollywood Wire:

www.hollywire.com/2015/01/alexander-skarsgard-talks-kristen-wiig-chemistry-%E2%80%98diary-teenage-girl%E2%80%99

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Originally posted by Misscat
Jan 27 15 10:45 PM



The Variety lounge interview with Bel, Marielle and Alex from Sundance:

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Originally Posted by Misscat

Feb 5 15 8:27 AM


Some behind the scenes shots of the in the Photo booth at Sundance:


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Victoria Will Shoots Celebrity Tintypes at Sundance: Alexander Skarsgard

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Originally posted by Ohva
* also posted in DOATG
Jul 30 15 7:33 PM

Alexander Skarsgård: “Sexism is a big problem in Hollywood”

I posted under DOATG too, but the article is more about him personally.

I posted this in the shout box yesterday but I don't think it ever got copied here. A good interview.


www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/alexander-skarsgrd-sexism-is-a-big-problem-in-hollywood-10423577.html

The London Evening Standard
Susannah Butter

He's dating Alexa, hanging out in East London and fighting inequality in the film industry. Here sexy Scandi vampire Alexander Skarsgård tells Susannah Butter why life after True Blood tastes so sweet

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Published: 29 July 2015 Updated: 14:38, 29 July 2015

Alexander Skarsgård is beautiful when he goes on a feminist rant. “Sexism is a big problem in Hollywood,” says the actor who made a name for himself as the hot vampire Eric in the TV series True Blood, winning everyone over with his perfectly hewn jawline and Scandi swagger. “Boys can talk about sex and have sex in films and it’s cool but when girls do it they are just sluts. It’s so prudish and puritanical. Hollywood is difficult for women — people making films want super-hot, young girls, and then there are fewer great roles for women aged over 40.”

Skarsgård is here to help, wearing the modern superhero garb of a denim shirt and jeans by Acne, a label based in his native Sweden. We have met to discuss his new film, Diary of a Teenage Girl. Set in Seventies San Francisco, it is “a coming of age story” about 17-year-old Minnie (Londoner Bel Powley), who begins an affair with a man called Monroe (played by 38-year-old Skarsgård), who happens to be the boyfriend of her mother (Kristen Wiig).

The sex scenes in Diary have caused a ratings row. The British Board of Film Classification has given it an 18 certificate because it contains what it calls “strong sex” but the film’s writer and director, Mari Heller, calls the decision “disappointing”. Wahida Begum, from the film’s distributor, Vertigo Releasing, said: “The film has been viewed purely by men at the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) and they have missed the point of the film and its message.” Heller has said it was made “by women, for women of all ages”.

“Mari Heller doesn’t give a f**k about the status quo,” says Skarsgård, sipping loose-leaf tea. “Voices like hers might break the barrier [of sexism] — or shatter it at least. It isn’t a traditional Hollywood movie, and when we filmed it no one was making decisions based on what would be commercially successful.

Skarsgård’s gentlemanly heroism extends to his love life. I have been given warnings from at least three publicists not to mention his relationship with model and presenter Alexa Chung. When I do break the rules and venture that she seems nice, he can’t resist a soppy smile. Later, when we discuss whether he would like to settle down, he says he “would like children”. Chung’s friends Pixie Geldof, Daisy Lowe and Douglas Booth like him and say they are looking forward to hanging out with “Alexa and Alex” at Soho Farmhouse this weekend.

At the moment he is staying in east London, which is “vibrant, fun, cool” (and Chung’s stomping ground) and is often at The Cat & Mutton pub on Broadway Market.

Does he feel protective of girlfriends who are getting attention because of who he is? “I do but the healthiest thing is not to dip into it, otherwise all the noise out there would drive me crazy. If you fall in love you figure it out and make it work.” “Alexa and Alex” went to Glastonbury together. Skarsgård says: “I’m not into Kanye West and not a good dancer but loved the Buzzcocks, one of my favourite bands of all time, and Perfume Genius.”

Skarsgård describes his accent as “kinda southern American” after 10 years based there and in LA but he grew up in Stockholm, or more specifically “So-Fo” (south of Folkungagatan). His mother is a doctor and he is the oldest of six children. The house was relaxed, and his father walked around naked a lot — presumably this is why he says “sex scenes are not embarrassing”.

Acting came naturally — his father is Stellan Skarsgård, of Mamma Mia! fame, but also lots of serious theatre and arthouse films. Lars von Trier cast them both in Melancholia. “My dad doesn’t care what we do as long as we are enjoying ourselves,” says the younger Skarsgård.

Alex Skarsgard starring alongside Kristen Wiig in The Diary of a Teenage Girl



London has a crush on Sweden at the moment. Is it really the best place ever? Skarsgård starts with a qualifier: “I’m not saying everything in Sweden is perfect because it’s not. But it is interesting having grown up in a social democratic country such as Sweden, and then watching what’s going on in the US and the income disparity. The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn’t have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There’s good paternity and maternity leave — the US is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn’t give parents anything. Sweden is a good country to raise a family in because there is an equality there I don’t feel in the States.”

He would “love” to do a Scandi drama and have a base there. “My family has been in So-Fo for ages and it’s very protective.” He’s still close to many of his childhood friends who are not in the industry, working instead as carpenters and doctors.

His brothers and sisters still live there, and he drew on his youngest sister’s experience while making Diary. “I remember what it was like being a young boy too. It’s confusing. You think about sex and you think, ‘Am I weird? What’s going on with my body and my mind?’ Then you think you are even more weird if there isn’t anything representing how you feel and what you are going through.”


Filming in San Francisco was “the best”. He knows Heller through a mutual friend, the 30 Rock comedian Jack McBrayer, and they had “really crazy parties at an old theatre in California where my friend lives”.

Skarsgård has recently finished a hardcore training regime, bulking up to play Tarzan. Is Hollywood as physically demanding for men? Skarsgård doesn’t buy it: “If you are a 65-year-old dude you can still be the leading man and have an onscreen romance with a 25-year-old and that’s fine — you’ll never see the reversal of that. It is much easier getting older as a male.”

After Tarzan, Skarsgård went to Iceland to film War on Everyone with John Michael McDonagh, the director of In Bruges and Calvary. He would like to come back and do theatre in London but the wilderness is also appealing. Last year he went to the South Pole with Prince Harry and Dominic West. “We were there for a month, completely isolated. You talk about everything — it’s a profound experience. We talked about how to stay grounded. I love to be disconnected like that.” He was still recognised, though — “some Russians in Antarctica had seen a movie I was in”.

Is all that travelling lonely? Skarsgård gestures at the room of people working on the film’s publicity. “Not at all. You see how many friends I have here?”

Next he is going off-grid to the Swedish archipelago. With Alexa? “You have to ask but I’m not saying anything,” he says. “Maybe settling down, maybe not...

“I want to catch up on reading. The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.”

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The Diary of a Teenage Girl is out in cinemas on August 7 from Vertigo Releasing

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Originally Posted by Blue Butterfly
Jul 31 15 3:00 PM


TOTAL FILM (September 2015) has a new interview with Alexander Skarsgård, Bel Powley & a review of the film.

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Alexander Skarsgård interview:

Your character Monroe in THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL has an affair with a teen. Were you worried how that might look?
To me that was what got me excited about it. Doing it in a way without justifying or condoning what he does. [It was] a really interesting challenge, to try and make him find moments where he’s weak or he’s confused or he’s a lost teenager. And to play around with the dynamic and that power balance in a way, so that he’s not a villain.


What’s the secret to doing a good sex scene?
You’ve just got to commit to it and go for it. If you get a little bit nervous, or if you start holding back, then it gets weird. A couple of years ago, I had a sex scene with Theo Alexander on True Blood. He’s also a straight man, we were butt-ass naked, making out, rolling around on the rug in front of a fireplace. But we were both really excited about the scene, as it had a twist towards the end.

How do you feel now True Blood is over after seven seasons?
I miss the people. There are moments when I miss playing Eric Northman. But it’s also an incredible feeling – like the fact I can do whatever I want.


You were a child actor and then you stopped. Why?
I wouldn’t say I was famous, but some people recognized me. Being 13 is fucking weird for anyone! But then it gets [even weirder] if someone recognizes you. I got really paranoid and uncomfortable with the attention.


You’ve just shot Tarzan. What made you take on your first blockbuster?
I was intrigued by that character and that take on a very classic story. I didn’t know what it would be like when you do a big movie like that. Are they going to micromanage you? Are they going to be nervous if you want to change a single word? But in that respect it wasn’t different from The Diary of a Teenage Girl. If something wasn’t working, we would just play around with it.


You played Meekus in Zoolander. Any chance that he could be resurrected for the sequel?
Unfortunately, I die in that gasoline fight! It’s a bummer!

Source: Total Film (UK magazine), SkarsJoy scans skarsjoy.tumblr.com/

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Originally posted by davischristinem

Interview with Alex from The Times of London

Aug 1 15 1:49 PM


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Check out Ben Machell’s new interview with Alex for The Times of London. He says Alex “spent a lot of time talking about Hammarby fotboll.” :-) (x)

Alexander Skarsgård: What I’ve Learnt

Actor Alexander Skarsgård, 38, is best known for his role as a thousand-year-old vampire in the HBO TV series True Blood. He starred in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and is the son of Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård. His girlfriend is TV presenter and model Alexa Chung and he lives in Los Angeles.

Americans seem to think people in Sweden don’t own clothes. They find Swedes very exotic and focus a lot on the idea of nudity. They seem fascinated by it, as though everyone in Stockholm walks around naked and that we’re a bunch of crazy nymphomaniacs.

Source: TheTimes.co.uk (x)

I transcribed the rest of the article from vixward72′s and SkarsgardFans.com generous scans. (x, x)

When you’re a kid, you just want to be the same as everyone else. I grew up in a bohemian household. We had a composer living in our apartment, and a writer too. There were always painters around and anarchists from Germany. Dad would walk around in an afghan with a glass of wine at 10am. I was disappointed. My friend’s dad was an accountant, wore a suit and drove a Saab to work. That’s what I wanted. Some structure. It seemed so alluring.

I’m rubbish at most things. That’s why I became an actor. I was trying to avoid this profession because I wanted to show my dad I could do something else. I just couldn’t find anything I was good at.

Fame is scary, wonderful and fascinating all at the same time. When True Blood took off in the States, I remember doing a panel discussion at Comic-Con in front of 5, 000screaming people. I went back to my hotel room, lay down on the bed and thought, What the f*** just happened? Was that real?“

Nobody makes me laugh like the British. You really take the piss out of yourselves. I love it. No matter how dire something is, you can find something to laugh about. It was the same when I was in the military doing national service. In situations where you’re emotionally and mentally-fatigued, what’s better than anything is if someone cracks the right joke at the right time. Sarcasm can be great for morale.

I fret too much. I wish I could stick with a decision once I’ve made it. I spend so much time looking back, thinking, “Should I have done that? Was that smart? Did I handle this correctly?” It gets to a point where it’s not helpful in any way.

Vanity is death for actors. If you don’t want to play someone with crooked teeth or bad posture because you’re more interested in looking handsome, then you’re screwed. I don’t see myself as good-looking. I’ve never had to save a girl from walking into a lamppost. It’d be nice, but it’s never happened.

I don’t get star-struck by A-listers. I’ve never been fazed by celebrity. It sounds like I’m trying to be cool, but I’m not, because I do get really stressed if I meet a player for Hammarby, the football team I support.


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My friends find it so weird that I live and work in Hollywood, but then I meet these 22-year old guys who play for a small team from south Stockholm and I turn into this giggling fanboy.

Don’t mess with my sister. My mum and dad had five boys and one girl. And then my dad had two more boys with his new wife. Everyone thinks my sister must be treated like a princess. No way. She’s stronger, tougher and more confident than any of us.

Steve Coogan is a genius. I’m a massive fan. I listened to the Alan Partridge audiobook when I was trekking in the Antarctic. He will always make me laugh.

The best thing about getting older is perspective. When I was a teenager, everything was life or death. “If this relationship doesn’t work out, I’ll never fall in love again!” I wish I could go back and tell myself to chill out. Just breathe. It’ll be fine.

Sources: TheTimes.co.uk, My transcription, Vixward72 and stuarta69′s instagrams

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Alex Interview with "The Guardian"
Aug 2 15 6:35 PM



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New Alex interview with The Guardian:
True Blood to Tarzan: how Alexander Skarsgård swung into Hollywood

He’s been a vampire bar-owner. Soon he’ll be Lord of the Jungle. But the Swedish actor is about to star in the sexually explicit Diary of a Teenage Girl – as a man who beds his girlfriend’s daughter

“I’m tall in Sweden,” says Alexander Skarsgård, lounging across a conveniently oversized sofa. “But I’m huge in Hollywood.” He’s not kidding: at 6ft 4in, he’s even taller in the flesh than he appears on screen. This must make film parties particularly awkward for people who find themselves pitching projects – or even just chatting – to his navel.

His height, in an industry full of titches, and his unmistakably Swedish looks, have helped Skarsgård stand out from the pack. He was perfect for a small turn in Zoolander as one of Ben Stiller’s buddies, and his imposing presence led to a breakout role in the vampire TV show True Blood. It also makes his turn in new movie The Diary of a Teenage Girl, in which his character has an affair with his girlfriend’s 17-­year-­old daughter (5ft 2in), even more shocking. The coming­-of-age drama, which also stars Kristen Wiig and British newcomer Bel Powley, recently gained an 18 certificate in the UK for its explicit sex scenes, a decision its director has denounced.

Skarsgård’s own teenage years can be split into two chapters. “The first was when I was a young teenager and didn’t go out much, just hung out at home and played video games. The girls in our class, we weren’t cool enough for them and they found some older dudes with Vespas and moustaches. My late teens were wilder. I discovered partying.”

As Skarsgård turned 21, he made the unlikely decision to leave Stockholm and live in Leeds for six months. Unlike many international students, he was unperturbed by the British student lifestyle. “I don’t know if you’ve ever been,” he says of his homeland, “but they take their partying pretty seriously.” Leeds was just what he needed at the time: “A real tough working­-class town.”

After he returned home, a career in Swedish film followed, but it wasn’t until his role as Eric Northman, the 1,000-year-old bar-owner in True Blood, that he reached a wider audience. Outside the small screen, he’s mostly stuck with smaller fare but he went full­ blockbuster in 2012 with the critically derided Battleship – something he doesn’t regret. “I’m only in Battleship for 30 minutes. I get blown up pretty early on. I’m a fan of Pete Berg. I still think he’s a fantastic director and I actually had a lot of fun. I know it was a disappointment at the box office but it didn’t turn me off big movies.”

Skarsgård’s idea of a “good time on set” might be slightly at odds with the average actor’s, however. He worked with Lars von Trier on the 2011 art-apocalypse drama Melancholia and quickly bonded with a director Nicole Kidman described diplomatically as “difficult” and who turned Björk off acting for ever. “People cracking jokes, having a laugh,” he says. “It was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. It was as close to doing theatre as you can get.”

He’s now after what every actor appears to be looking for: a franchise. His father, fellow von Trier survivor Stellan, has attached himself to the Marvel cinematic universe, cropping up in both Thor films, as well as the Avengers outings. While Skarsgård hasn’t ruled out joining him (“If you do it with the right tone, then sure”), for the moment he’s set his sights on another type of superhero. Next summer, he’ll be the lead in a new Tarzan movie, heading a starry cast that includes Samuel L Jackson, Margot Robbie and Christoph Waltz. While he won’t reveal whether we’ll hear the iconic Tarzan call (“Maybe, maybe not”), he does suggest the retelling will surprise some.

“When you first meet Tarzan, he’s buttoned up in a three­-piece ­suit in Victorian England,” he says. “So it’s reversed – instead of it being about taming the beast, it’s about the beast within. There’s the dichotomy of functioning in a civilised society where you politely wait at the post office for your turn, but also being an animal with everything that contains. I can relate to it. I think every human being can.”

So Skarsgård will soon be yet more visible at those Hollywood shindigs, surrounded by even more hangers­-on eyeballing his belly­button. At least he’ll have some fellow Swedes for support: the rise of actors such as Alicia Vikander,Joel Kinnaman and Noomi Rapace suggests LA is undergoing something of a Scandinavian invasion. “There are a lot of Swedes in Hollywood in general,” he agrees. “We have a tendency to know each other and help each other out.”

And go for meatballs at Ikea? “Of course! We drive there in our Volvos listening to Abba.”

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Originally Posted by davischristinem
Aug 2 15 7:37 PM


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Summer Jobs - Before they got famous: Alexander Skarsgård in plotr (Career inspiration magazine) July 2015

Before he became our favorite vampire, Alexander started his career collecting dishes in a Stockholm restaurant.

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Originally posted by ohva
Aug 6 15 7:24 AM


Alexander Skarsgård Explains Why He Dressed In Drag And Reveals His Drag Name


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Helloooooo Lady Libido Lushbody.



At the premiere of his new film The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Alexander Skarsgård showed up in drag and left everyone amazed but also confused.

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Skarsgård happened to stop by BuzzFeed HQ today (as his everyday self) and revealed why he donned his drag apparel.

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We asked him why he showed up in drag and what his inspiration was.

“We shot the movie in San Francisco. Mari [Heller], the director, is from San Francisco, and she wanted to do a big screening for friends and family who shot the movie there; it takes place in San Francisco. We had a bunch of drag queen on the crew. Our first AD was Cousin Wonderlette; the casting director for the extras was Lady Bear, who is a legendary drag queen in San Francisco; and we had Peaches Christ.”

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Alexander Skarsgård Explains Why He Dressed In Drag And Reveals His Drag Name

“We had a small group and we all became really close, and you know, dear friends of mine. And Mari wanted them to host the screening at the Castro and do a number from The Rocky Horror Picture Show before and do a big fun drag queen after-party. And I just felt, I asked, I didn’t want to be excluded from the fun. So I asked if there was any way I could come in drag, and they were nice enough to say yes.”

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As for his inspiration, it was Farrah Fawcett.

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“My inspiration was Farrah Fawcett. I said I want something glamorous like Farrah Fawcett. And they went for it. They made this dress, a wig, and fake tits with really nice nipples, and high-heeled shoes. The whole thing.”

He ended up learning a thing or two about the drag community.

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“And I found out — Mercedez Munro was the drag queen who did all my makeup, and at the after-party the drag queens came up and said, ‘Oh, have you met my mother, have you met my daughter?’ The drag queens said that while introducing people. I didn’t quite understand what that meant, but then Mercedez told me, ‘I am now your mother.’ Because whoever does your drag makeup the first time becomes your mother. So I now have a drag queen mother.”

And none of this would be complete without his very own drag name.

Alexander Skarsgård Explains Why He Dressed In Drag And Reveals His Drag Name

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To which we said, “That’s a lot of name,” and he responded…


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