Photoshoots and Interviews - 2013

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Photo shoots and interviews with Alexander Skarsgard from 2013

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Posted by Blue Butterfly
Dec 20 12 10:35 AM

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ELLE Netherlands has an interview of Alexander Skarsgård in their January 2013 issue. (Pages 90 & 91) The interview is in Dutch and we are very grateful for the translations that were provided to us. Tack to ifyourehomesick for translating for us!

The full page photograph of Alex was by photographer Andrew MacPherson.

Giant tack to Meatballs for sharing the link!

Alexander The Great

With the new season of True Blood currently on TV, Alexander Skarsgard talks about the success of the show, typecasting, and not at all about his private life. Or maybe a little.

Alexander Skarsgard (36) is hungry. As the centuries-old vampire Eric Northman on True Blood he sticks to a diet of fresh blood, but on this morning in Rome he’s having croissants, rolls, cheese and coffee for breakfast. “I just finished filming Hidden”, the actor explains with a full mouth. “In the movie, me and my wife (played by actress Andrea Riseborough, ed.) and our ten-year-old daughter have to survive in a bomb shelter. It was a very intense time, during which I also had to lose a lot of weight quickly. No bread, no pasta, no alcohol. It was the diet of pretty much every woman in Hollywood, but nothing for me.”

You can’t tell by looking at him that he’s had a hard time. In Hollywood the actor is considered a giant (1,94 meters) and he looks relaxed, his body clad in Scandinavian design. “I love everything simple and minimalistic but I’m not a fashion victim. I don’t care that much about my appearance.” He doesn’t have to. Aside from his impressive height, Skarsgard pretty much has it all with his strong jaw line, piercing blue eyes and killer smile.

OVERWHELMING

Alexander was born in Stockholm on August 25, 1976 and is the oldest son of actor Stellan Skarsgard (Breaking the Waves) and doctor My Skarsgard. His brothers Gustaf, Sam, Bill and Valter all work in the movie industry, his sister Eija is a model. So it isn’t all that strange that Alexander scored his first role when he was just thirteen years old. Even though he enjoyed acting, it took him ten more years until he started working at his acting career again. “All the attention made me extremely uncomfortable. I couldn’t do it. I don’t feel that way anymore, I have enough confidence now to deal with the reactions I get, positive or negative.” How lucky, then, that after smaller roles in different Hollywood movies – among others, a hilarious part as a Swedish model in Ben Stiller’s Zoolander (2001) – he got his big breakthrough in 2008 with his role in True Blood. Although Anne Paquin as the naïve Sookie Stackhouse is the main character, it is mainly Alexander who steals the show as Viking vampire Eric Northman. Entire fan sites, Facebook pages and YouTube videos are dedicated to him. “The success of True Blood is overwhelming. I never expected that it would become so popular.” Alexander deals with the adoration of his fans in a level-headed manner. “I love the fans and all the attention that is paid to me but I don’t Google myself. To protect myself, I think. I don’t know if and how it would affect me so I’d rather not look at all.”

In the past year, Alexander has caught the attention of a wider audience by appearing in big movies such as Melancholia, Battleship and Straw Dogs (in which he plays the mad ex of his real-life ex Kate Bosworth). As a result, he has been gracing the covers of magazines such as GQ and Interview Magazine, and can next be seen alongside model Lara Stone in the campaign for Calvin Klein’s fragrance Encounter. As the “hottest thing” in Hollywood he has been named as a candidate for the role of SM addict Christian Grey in the movie adaption of Fifty Shades of Grey. He doesn’t want to say anything about it because “he hasn’t read the book, much less an actual script”.

His growing success also means that his private life is increasingly scrutinized; the actor sees this as a natural byproduct of life in the limelight. “The attention is overwhelming. Especially the presence of paparazzi has recently grown. I try to protect myself, my family and loved-ones from that as best as I can but it’s difficult.” The currently single Swede doesn’t say who those loved-ones might be. Even though he’s been seen with actresses Amanda Seyfried and Ellen Page in the past year, his love life is off-limits in interviews. “I’d rather keep my private life and work separate. Not just to protect those around me but also because I think it’s better for my work as an actor. The more people know about you, the more difficult it becomes to play a role convincingly.”

But as the conversation shifts to his friends and family in Sweden, his face lights up. “I’m especially close with my dad and my friends are still the same ones I had when I was younger. We have the most fun together. I try to go to Stockholm whenever I can.”

MULTI-TALENT

When asked whether he’s scared of forever being associated with his role as a vampire (the “Friends effect”), he ponders the question for a while. “When you play the same character for six years on a show that is this popular, of course there is a danger of being typecast. People confuse you with the character.” But the actor is not focused on proving that he can do other things as well. “During the five months of the year that we don’t shoot True Blood, I look for projects that challenge me creatively. Not to show others that I can do more than playing a vampire but to keep myself excited about my job.” He doesn’t shy away from extreme roles or surprising choices. “I love taking risks. Of course you want that every movie becomes a success but I try not to focus on that aspect as much during filming. That part comes later.”

After all the action, horror and drama roles, we can hopefully see the more light-hearted side of the actor soon. Although he may well be a typical stoic Swede, his appearances in American talk shows have proven that he has a great sense of humor. Alexander laughs. “A comedy? I’d love to! After months in a bomb shelter, I’m ready for something lighter.” We would be, too.

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Posted by Blue Butterfly
Jan 18 13 8:07 PM

Alexander Skarsgård is featured in the February 2013 issue of Glamour España (page 143).

Large photo is by Steven Klein for Calvin Klein. The article is in Spanish, so Ildaua was kind enough to translate it for us. Tack Ildaura!

Sweet Blood
Alexånder Skargard is pure sex appeal. Now he launches a perfume and releases new movies.

There are too many Swedes that are blond with intense blue eyes and over 6ft high. Generate almost 15 million results in Google, just one. Alexander Skarsgard is the trendy Swede at the moment. He is currently shooting the sixth season of HBO’s True Blood, the vampire series which made him famous, but he still thinks it’s “surreal” seeing big posters on the streets with his face on it. The actor and director receives Spanish magazine GLAMOUR in a Manhattan hotel (wood’s scent, cognac and a soft environment) and he talks about his projects while he vaporizes Encounter, he is the image for the new fragrance from Calvin Klein. “I can’t choose between films and TV shows. It depends on the script, the character, the staff and the director,” he says. He has been behind the camera in the short To Kill a Child, in which stars his father and his brother. “I’m interested in directing, it’s something I want to explore. An experience I will repeat”, he says. Till then, we can see him in True Blood and in four films coming this year: What Maisie Knew (with Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan), The East, Disconnect and Hidden.

“A deep, dark fragance”
“If the perfume fused perfectly harmony with your own essence, it makes you unique, and it’s very sexy”, Alexander says, image of Encounter from Calvin Klein. “It’s a deep and dark fragrance, with soft touches of wood. I love it.”

The picture at the bottom shows a frame from Hidden, one of the films Skarsgård releases in 2013.

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Posted by Blue Butterfly
Mar 21 13 11:17 AM

Little interview view with Alex from the new issue of Elle
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In the past year, Alexander Skarsgård has been linked to a racy film adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey, a Tarzan reboot, and the actress Charlize Theron. All appear to be rumors, but when you’re a 6’4” Swede famous for playing the 1,000-year-old, slightly demented yet nurturing vampire Eric Northman on HBO’s hit series True Blood, people expect you to run around in a loincloth and have a sex dungeon. But Skarsgård, son of Mamma Mia!’s Stellan Skarsgård, has a simpler story: After a brush with fame as a child actor, he ran the other way, enlisting in Sweden’s Marine Corps and working in intelligence. Still, a leopard can’t change its spots—or whatever the equivalent Swedish expression is—and Skarsgård eventually invaded Hollywood, stealing scene after scene from under his costars’ fangs. (He became an attention magnet offscreen, too, thanks to his two-year romance with Kate Bosworth.) This month, Skarsgård, 36, reminds us he’s more than eye candy, with Disconnect, a serious—and seriously good—drama about the ways in which technology can make us feel even lonelier.

ELLE: Who was your childhood crush?

Alexander Skarsgård: I saw Tootsie with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. [Laughs] I didn’t know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.

ELLE: I read that you were insecure as a kid. I find that hard to believe.

AS: I was very insecure—especially when it came to girls. When I was nine, there was this girl, Elin, in my class who I was in love with. I didn’t know how to approach her. We did this thing in Sweden, at least when I was a kid, where people write notes, like, “Do you want to be my girlfriend?” followed by three boxes: Yes, No, Maybe.

ELLE: So you wrote her a note?

AS: I would never write her a note! That would take some balls. But one day after school, I found a note from her in my pocket saying, “Do you want to be my boyfriend?” I was so happy. I couldn’t sleep all night. The next morning, my buddy started laughing, and I realized he wrote the note. That kind of messed up my confidence when it came to girls.

ELLE: You grew up in a very bohemian household, with your dad’s friends around all the time. I imagine you learned quite a lot about women.

AS: I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild. Illegal substances floating around. People were drunk. I was born in the late ’70s. There was so much love there.

ELLE: I’m picturing thirtysomething women offering to take your virginity….

AS: [Laughs] No, no, it wasn’t like that. The problem was when I got a little older—when I was 12, 13, 14—and bringing girls over after school. Dad was always walking around naked with a glass of red wine in his hand.

ELLE: Wait, what?

AS: That was always the case. He didn’t care if there were people he didn’t know at the house. My buddies didn’t care. They’d seen him naked a million times. But it got a little uncomfortable when you brought a girl over, and dad showed up naked with a glass of wine and tried to give her a hug.

ELLE: I bet. There’s a lot of nudity on True Blood. Have you always been comfortable naked?

AS: Culturally, it’s a little different. There’s such a taboo here with nudity. In some people’s eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that. If a kid sees a nipple on television, how is that more damaging than watching someone bash someone else’s head in with a baseball bat?

ELLE: In Disconnect, you make a joke about watching a porn flick called Sperms of Endearment. Was that an ad-lib?

AS: [Laughs] Yeah, it was.

ELLE: Is that a real movie?

AS: I don’t know. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen it. But I’m very intrigued by it. I definitely want to see it. I’ve heard it’s very good.

ELLE: One of your favorite books is Lolita. What do you remember about the first time you read it?

AS: I was kind of terrified. It was scary and intriguing at the same time.

ELLE: What’s the hardest part about dating an actress?

AS: It’s tough with your schedule. The flip side is, it’s a weird job, and to have someone who knows what you’re going through…but it’s so much about the individual. It’s more complicated than saying, “This is what it’s like with an actress.”

ELLE: Do you believe there’s one person out there for you?

AS: No, I don’t think so. When you meet someone, of course you want it to last forever. It’d be very depressing if you didn’t feel that way. But things change, and you maybe grow apart. You have to accept that.

ELLE: Your parents divorced after 35 years, but they’ve remained close. What did you learn from the situation?

AS: Mom called me about six years ago, and she was very sad. She said, “I’ve been with this guy since I was 18. I had six kids with him. What am I gonna do?” Dad remarried and had another kid with his new wife. But I could see immediately that Mom—it just gave her so much strength, being on her own. She’s now taking risks and taking chances and is happier than ever. And Mom and Dad are great friends.

ELLE: Have you received any particularly valuable advice about women?

AS: When my sister Eija was maybe two and a half years old, she and my brother had an argument. Eija couldn’t write, so she said, “Dad, write this down: Girls are always right.” He taped that up on the kitchen wall. It’s still hanging there.

ELLE: Has that advice served you well?

AS: Well, I know better than to argue with Eija.

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Posted by Blue Butterfly
Apr 10 13 5:06 PM

Alexander Skarsgard interview in Vanidades (Puerto Rico) April 2013

Thanks to the wonderful Laura, we are able to share this interview of Alexander Skarsgård in the magazine Vanidades from Puerto Rico. (Laura translated the article from Spanish to English for us.) The article is in the April 2013 issue, but it is about him being the face of Calvin Klein’s Encounter. (However, it does mention more recent things like his Provocations campaign and also him being rumored to be in the movie Tarzan.)

The article is by Mari Rodriguez Ichaso. Main photo is by Tobias Lundkvist.

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Sexy, handsome and mysterious, the vampire Eric from the TV-show True Blood, has been chosen as the new Calvin Klein Fragrance image.

ALEXANDER SKARSGÄRD
The handsome swedish Alexander Skarsgärd (aka the famous vampire called Eric in the TV show True Blood) is fascinated by Latin-America. It surprises me how much he knows about our countries. He likes the Tulum Ruins in Mexico, the pure nature he discovered in Costa Rica, the colonial center and the music he found in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and the always cool and magic environment of Río de Janeiro, in Brazil, where he has spent few weeks with his father lately.

While we talk about Latin-America his blue eyes shine, but instead of expressing torture or angish (as his role in the misterious vampire TV show) they reflect innocence. As he says, “I am in love with Latin-American countries, because besides their beauty, people here are full of honesty and true joy of living, they care about family and they are respectful with their traditions… And all these genuine things are the most valuable ones in the world for me”.

When I arrived to the meeting with Alexander, for the exclusive interview with VANIDADES, the environment was very relaxed, not such a common thing on interviews nowadays, and he was having a “double expresso” coffee with six spoons of sugar. He was wearing jeans and a just-ironed white t-shirt, he looked great, as a healthy man, asolutely in shape, with his hair brushed back and a friendly smile.

(Page 2)
We immediately started talking about the new spot of Calvin Klein’s perfume, Encounter, which Alexander represents and they showed us just before the interview. And he is perfect on it, with his 1.93 meter tall and his amazing body! The model Lara Stone is his partner in the spot, which shows Alexander’s mysterious and seduction skills, as we are use to watch in his work. It is a very masculine fragance that fits Alexander perfectly. It is described as “The perfume of a man who knows what he wants and stays in control, while the mystery is divided into infinite possibilities” (The actor previously worked with Calvin Klein in the 9 minutes film called Provocations).

“What do you think about being named for five years the sexiest man in Sweden?”, I asked while he drinks his coffee and a cold glass of water. He starts laughing while he shakes his head: “No, no… I can’t believe it … I feel very flattered, but in my country there are hundreds of men like me. I am not very extraordinary in Sweden, I can assure you that. I am very common up there” he says, “What still surprises me is when fans ask me to bite them after I sign them an autograph! Like I was a real vampire… They ask me the most incredible things, like what does the blood taste like, if I like it… and they also give me advice about how my character should behave and react! The True Blood fans think I am Eric, not Alexander. That’s weird… he stole who I was somehow! It’s unbelieveable!”

The 36-year old actor has travelled arounf the world promoting Calvin Klein’s Encounter, and he explains us how much he is enjoying this new side of his career. “I like travelling and knowing new people… Encounter is the perfect frangance for me, because it has personality and smells very good… Since I was a kid I’ve been pretty decided on what I like or not… I started acting when I was 8, can you imagine it? My father was already a known actor, but when I turned 16 I thought that was not for me and I enrolled in the Swedish Marines. At 19 I understood that I really wanted to be an actor. And I haven’t stopped doing it since then.”.

Alexander loves the HBO TV shows “because they are original, very smart and they are absolutely well written. My character, Eric, has many dimensions. I get fascinated when they give me the script and I see his emotions and what is he doing”.

“What do you do when you’re not at True Blood set?” “I do cinema, which is my true passion”
His last films have been Straw Dogs, Melancholia, de Lars von Trier, Battleship and The East, and it’s being rumored that he will play the new version of Tarzan.

He describes himself as a simple man, who loves nature and family. His father is the famous actor Stellan Skarsgärd, and his mother, My Skarsgärd, is a doctor. “I get along very well with them, specially with my grandmother, because she is very honest and she always tells me the truth. It keeps me focused and real. Her honesty is one of the main values in my life. I love being an actor, but I don’t like frivolity and I live in Hollywood most of the time. I go to the supermarket and to the beach, and I live my life as private as possible”. Althought he doesn’t like to talk about his private life, we know he dated Amanda Seyfried, he had a 2-year relationship with Kate Bosworth, during last year he has been spotted with Evan Rachel Wood and Charlize Theron, and now it’s rumored he is dating Ellen Page.

His refugee and the place he loves the most is his mother’s house in an island next to Stockölm. “It is my favourite place, and sometimes I fly 18 hours from LA just to sped a couple of days there. We’re 6 brothers and sisters, and we love to talk about our lifes, canoeing, cooking, drinking and having fun. The first thing I always do when I’m with them is to turn off my cell. Being with my family gives me happinness, because is the thing I love the most”.








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Posted by Blue Butterfly
Aug 17 13 9:05 PM

Alexander Skarsgard Covers “M” Magazine (Summer 2013)


Photos by Matthew Brookes; our collage

Alexander Skarsgård was featured in the Summer 2013 issue of M Magazine (by WWD, or Women’s Wear Daily). Leading up to the magazine release, fans spotted Alex during the photo shoot by Matthew Brookes taken outside their work (lucky!) and at the Fortune Gym in Hollywood, CA. Justin Fortune who owns the gym (and is a former heavyweight contender) was also featured in the photo shoot with Alex. You can see a YouTube video by Fortune Gym that has Alex in it during his photo shoot here. Photos were also posted by celebrity wardrobe stylist Leila Baboi that had us all anxious for the magazine to be published. Photos also found on M Magazine tumblr.


Photos by Leila Baboi

From M Magazine (by Jim Windolf):

Alexander Skarsgård, born in ’76, is the oldest of eight children. Two of his brothers are working actors, with Bill appearing in the Netflix series Hemlock Grove and Gustaf playing the role of Floki in the History Channel’s Vikings. Skarsgård’s mother, My Skarsgård, is a physician in Stockholm who specializes in working with addicts. His father, Stellan Skarsgård, is a veteran of the Stockholm stage and such Scandinavian films as Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves.

In recent years, Stellan has made a place for himself in Hollywood as a key cast member in two separate blockbuster series, The Avengers and Pirates of the Caribbean. At the same time, after 35 years of marriage, he and his wife split up. Stellan now has two sons with his second wife, Megan Everett Skarsgård.

Stellan and Alexander faced off against each other, to good effect, in von Trier’s apocalyptic nightmare, Melancholia, a 2011 film that includes a line that pushes the bleakness of Scandinavian drama to its limit: “All I know is, life on earth is evil.”

In the movie, the Skarsgård père plays a gamey rogue, while Alexander, smiling sweetly, is a submissive groom who understands little about his bride-to-be, a spirited depressive played by Kirsten Dunst.

As actors in that one, both Skarsgårds did what they usually do to win over audiences: Stellan went out and grabbed them, Jack Nicholson–style, with his sharp tongue and glinting eyes, while Alexander drew them in by keeping himself quiet in his body and gentle in his speech. The father conquers. The son seduces.

Henry-Alex Rubin, the director of Disconnect, compares Alexander to a long-ago Swedish actor-director who got his start in the silent era: “He’s less like his father,” Rubin says, “and more like Victor Sjöström in Wild Strawberries—a great Swedish actor who did a lot with very little. As opposed to a lot of Americans, who come from the Stella Adler school, Alex comes from the Swedish school of doing a lot with very little. There are a lot of shots [in Disconnect] where he does absolutely nothing on screen. Just a tiny shift in the eyes. And that’s his choice.
“True Blood capitalizes on his brooding, mysterious quality, but in real life Alex is very sweet and thoughtful and even kind of boyish. At festivals or when we’re out socially, I watch as he spends his time taking pictures with these middle-aged housewives and grannies. It’s little things like him bending at the knees, not to dwarf them in pictures. It reminds me of what I’ve read about James Dean, how respectful he was around women, which is a contradiction, because he was such a handsome boy. In a similar way, Alex doesn’t act like a handsome lady-killer. He’s very respectful, and that’s something you wouldn’t expect, because women find him to be a sex symbol, and he’s got these screaming True Blood fans. But he doesn’t exploit or even take advantage of his looks, and I think that’s telling.

“He has never said this to me, but I imagine he is tired of playing a vampire and wants to explore different sides of himself. I think, in the past, he has been underestimated, which is a great place to be, because then you can blow people away.”

Rubin has been out on the town with Skarsgård as well and reports, “He’s a really loving drunk. I probably shouldn’t say that, but you know how people’s personalities come out when they’re drunk.”

The director also talked about the filming of a key scene in Disconnect, when Skarsgård’s character finally loses it: “When he broke down and cried like a baby, even the crew was shocked. He really cracked—and when he cried, it was real. It wasn’t fake crying. He reached inside. He went in deep and he found it and he cracked. It was very emotional to experience, watching him do that on set. I imagine that it is difficult for anyone in Swedish culture, because they are incredibly restrained people who don’t often wear their emotions on their sleeves.”

We meet Alexander Skarsgård at the sweet spot in his career, when he is morphing into a movie star. To commemorate the change, M set him up at Fortune Gym, on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, to re-create the sweaty Hollywood glamour of Somebody Up There Likes Me (starring Paul Newman, 1956), or Champion (Kirk Douglas, 1949), or maybe Kid Galahad (Edward G. Robinson, 1937). At left is former heavyweight professional and current gym proprietor Justin Fortune, who fought Lennox Lewis back in ’95. “I was six-two when I went in the ring,” Fortune says, just before working with Skarsgård. “Now I’m five-foot-nine.”

His film career got its start in 2001, while he was visiting his papa (actor Stellan Skarsgård) in Los Angeles. “My dad’s agent said, ‘Oh, I’ll send you out on a meeting,’” Skarsgård says. “I auditioned for Zoolander and got it.” It was the small (but crucial!) role of Meekus, a dim-bulb fashion model who perishes in a gasoline fight. It did not hint much at what was to come for the star of HBO’s True Blood, who is now making his name in three movies playing at the same time: The East, What Maisie Knew, and Disconnect.

Skarsgård is six-foot-four. His arms are like ropes. Those attributes (and his linguistic skill) made him right for the role of a Mississippi golden boy turned rapist in Rod Lurie’s brutal and effective 2011 remake of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs. In real life, though, as if to compensate for his physical gifts, Skarsgård has a gentle manner, which he shows off to good effect in What Maisie Knew. In that one he plays a slouchy bartender who impulsively marries a self-involved musician (Julianne Moore). Little by little he becomes a doting father figure to her neglected daughter, Maisie (Onata Aprile), in the sweetest cinematic pairing of an adult male and a young girl since Ryan and Tatum O’Neal starred in Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon (1973).

Skarsgård was famous as a kid, after appearing on a popular Swedish TV show, but he hated being recognized—so he quit acting for his teenage years. Now, at age 36, he doesn’t mind being approached by even the most smitten True Blood fan. “I’ve learned to be genuinely happy if someone likes what I do,” he says. It helps that he’s a fan himself. “I love Spencer Tracy. And Marlon Brando was phenomenal—I’m a huge fan of his. Paul Newman, as well, with Hud. There was a darkness and also something very naturalistic about the way they acted that you didn’t see so much of before that. They weren’t theatrical. James Cagney had it, too. That intensity. For a leading man, to have that darkness, and to be able to explore that, back when a lot of them were just flashy leading men… Cagney was awesome. Awesome.”

Skarsgård began making his own way at age 19, when he joined the Swedish army. “My dad is an actor,” he says as he sits on the bike behind Fortune Gym, “and all his friends are artists, painters, musicians, actors—so it was great, growing up with these super-creative, interesting people. There were big dinner parties, and my dad loves to cook. Tons of wine—it was a crazy household, but so much love, as well. So I come from a family of these super-left-wing pacifist bohemians and wanted to challenge myself and do something completely different from what I was used to.” As a member of a special operations unit called SakJakt, he picked up a lot of what he has used as an actor—skills that may come in handy once more if Warner Bros. decides to go ahead with Tarzan as its new tentpole franchise, with Skarsgård in the loincloth.

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Photos by Jim Windolf

Jim Windolf wrote the article and posted a couple of his own photos on tumblr before the magazine & article came out:

In the top picture, actor Alexander Skarsgård, in boxing trunks, poses for photographer Matthew Brookes during a shoot for M magazine. Below, Skarsgård, getting into it, throws himself into a corner as if he has just been walloped. It took place about a month ago, in Los Angeles, at Fortune Gym, which is run by former boxer Justin Fortune, who somehow fought heavyweight although he stands five foot nine. I post these pictures here because the issue of M with Skarsgård on the cover is about to come out.

Skarsgård, best known for his work on True Blood, is in three movies that are in theaters now: Disconnect; What Maisie Knew; and The East. I interviewed him the same day as the photo shoot — during the photo shoot, in fact. He was a nice guy. I felt like he is a decent person who is not hiding much.

He grew up in Stockholm the son of lefty peaceniks. Then, at 19, he got some separation from his family when he joined the Swedish military. His father is the gamey actor Stellan Skarsgård, who is getting richer and more famous (as a continuing character in the Pirates of the Caribbean and Avengers movies) as he ages into his 60s.

Alexander Skarsgård drove a Porsche. Unlike many movie/TV actors I have interviewed, he did not travel in the company of a publicist. His arms were like braided ropes and he kept doing pull-ups during the photo shoot’s downtime, but when I asked him what his workout routine was, he just said, “I run a little.”

He wasn’t so revealing about himself, so for the story I called up Henry-Alex Rubin, who directed Disconnect, which really is a terrific movie. Rubin said a lot more about Skarsgård than Skarsgård would say about himself.

What Maisie Knew is also a good movie, and Skarsgård does nicely in it, playing a sweetie (a change from his other roles).

I had the highest hopes for The East — it stars and was co-written by Brit Marling, who did the same thing for Another Earth and Sound of My Voice, both of which I loved. The East is about a group of eco-terrorists. It is a Marling movie with what appears to be a bigger budget than the last two, and its concerns match up with the political moment. But it seemed a little goofy to me. Let’s just say it wasn’t so bad, but it failed the Homeland test (meaning it’s a political thriller that isn’t as exciting as the average episode of Homeland).

Skarsgård told me that Tarzan will likely start filming next summer (with him in the loin cloth). Warner Bros. has big plans for that one and I bet they’ll get it right (or close enough to have a big summer hit with it).

It occurs to me that I must apologize to the great photographer Matthew Brookes, especially for the second photo, above. Photobombing refers to the act of sticking yourself into someone else’s picture — but it really should mean this, what I’ve done here — when you piggyback on someone else’s elaborate setup!

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Posted by Blue Butterfly
Aug 17 13 10:06 PM

Alexander Skarsgård was featured in the European magazine JOY (digital August 2013 issue). Giant tack to zedsalivebaby for the translation from Hungarian to English.
[The gallery of the digital scans is below the article.]

And here’s the translation: (NOTE: I translated this for fun and I didn’t really pay much attention to the grammar, etc. I’m sorry if it’s faulty, but I do believe you can understand whatever I meant to say with the translation.)

Picture caption: True Blood’s sixth season is full of excitement

First page caption: ”For ten years I’ve lived out of my suitcase”

Title quote: ”I can only imagine my future with a woman who has a great sense of humor.”

The True Blood star Alexander Skarsgard doesn’t find a challenge in dropping his clothes, he’s more guarded regarding his personal life. Luckily enough, he was willing to share a few things with us…

The Swedish actor became a super star in his homeland at the age of 16, yet the international fame came with his role in True Blood – which’s sixth season just premiered in Hungary (note: this is there because it’s a Hungarian article, duh. I never knew they’re already airing the episodes in hungarian… Woah Hungary, you fast.) There’s hardly any role offer that he’d turn down, rest assured he prefers his personal life to stay far more modest and considerate.

How significant luxury is, in your everydays?

For I while now, I’ve been constantly travelling due to filming, I basically lived out of my suitcase. I’ve often spent nights at my friends’ house, on the couch. And for two years, I’ve lived in the garage of my friend. Not so long ago, I finally purchased my very first house in Los Angeles in a very classy area: Los Feliz. That was the moment when I could finally feel like an adult, and settled down.

How is an average day for you in Los Angeles?

When I moved here in 2008, first I had to get used to the place. Back at home, in Stockholm, I traveled on foot and my friends lived only a corner away from me. These days, most times I’m just sitting in a car for thirty minutes if I wanna buy a coffee. Over some time I got used to this lifestyle, and now I’m happy here. I spend around six months a year in front of cameras in Hollywood Center Studios for the filming of True Blood. But when I’m not working, I like to travel: once I’ve spent a month sailing the Atlantic Ocean. Last time I’ve visited Iceland with my friends where we hiked a lot, far from any sort of civilization. On top of all, I visit my family in Sweden often.

What is that you value in your friends the most?

We grew up together, we’ve known each other for a thousand years! (note: ehehehehe Eric…) They couldn’t care less about the glamorous world of Hollywood! One of them is a woodworker, the second has no job, and the third works at elderly care. We drink beer and talk about football, all of us enjoy it very much, it’s good for us.

Though, we assume that at these get-togethers you often discuss women as well. What are the most important traits in a woman, for you?

I can only imagine my future with a woman who has a great sense of humor. I think everyone should be able to laugh at themselves. I can’t stand when people take themselves too serious. So, it won’t be easy to find the right woman for me! Hollywood isn’t really useful for that, anyway – not for men, neither for women. Everyone’s so obsessed with the surface, their appearance. For that, they can’t act careless and ‘free’ at all, during dates – and that is something that would be very important, in my point of view.

What would you do if a woman broke your heart?

I can’t really serve you a good advice,because in all honesty I handle that situation just as bad as Eric, my character in True Blood. I just can’t really process the pain, because it cuts too deep. I try my best to surpress and overcome the bitterness, I pretend I wasn’t broken up with and left behind. As if everything was perfectly okay.

Your parents divorced after 35 years of happy marriage which was seemingly shocking. How did it affect you?

My dad, Stellan has gotten married again and became the father of two more children. Back then, my mom, My was completely desperate. Once she called me said: “I’ve been with your father since I was 18, and I gave him six children! What should I continue my life now?” After the first shock, luckily she got herself together, she strengthened. Since then not only she’s willing to risk, but i think she’s also happier than ever. I share an extremely close bond with my mother. Me and my siblings are very happy that our parents managed to stay friends.

Being a Swedish actor as you are, what caused you the biggest culture shock in Hollywood?

I think most American people are way inhibited. (note: he means sort of conservative or… ugh you know. That they’re not goofy and crazy and loud and FTW like swedish people usually are.) Showing my body isn’t a problem for me. Maybe because back then, my parents were hippies. My dad used to walk around naked all the time and there wasn’t a single problem with that. Though it would’ve been real awkward if I brought a girl home after school, and my dad just stood there naked with a bottle of wine in his hand, wanting to greet her with hug. *chuckles*





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[wanderingstar78]

Posted by Blue Butterfly
Aug 17 13 10:17 PM

Alexander Skarsgård was featured on the cover and in an inside article for the June 20th, 2013 issue of Backstage magazine.

Alexander Skarsgård Is Still Looking for Answers
By Jenelle Riley | Posted June 20, 2013

When Alexander Skarsgård strides into the neighborhood café, heads turn. For starters, he’s six-feet-four yet somehow looks twice that size. And, of course, he’s almost ludicrously handsome. Despite the fact that he was up until 6 a.m. that morning filming his hit HBO series “True Blood,” Skarsgård looks like he just stepped into a photo shoot.

Given those cheekbones and his inherent charisma, Skarsgård seemed destined to be a star. Brit Marling, who stars in the film “The East” and co-wrote the script with director Zal Batmanglij, says few actors could have played Benji, the magnetic leader of an underground collective that exacts revenge on dangerous corporations. “You watch him on ‘True Blood,’ and that show is so far out, but Alex has a way of making you think it’s real,” she says. “Zal and I thought that if he could make you believe in that world, surely he could be a charismatic revolutionary leader who has people dropping out of their lives to follow him into the woods. Who else could pull that off?”

“The East” is one of three acclaimed movies Skarsgård has in theaters, including the ensemble thriller “Disconnect” and an adaptation of Henry James’ “What Maisie Knew.” All that, and “True Blood” is back, stronger than ever, for its sixth season. While he admits to being in an ideal place in his career, it’s interesting to note that the first time fame came calling, he wanted nothing to do with it.

The oldest son of Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, he made his film debut when he was only 7 years old, in his father’s film “Åke and His World.” When he was 13, he achieved fame with the lead role in the TV production “The Dog That Smiled.” Offers started rolling in, and Skarsgård promptly quit. “It wasn’t a break. I was done with it,” he says. “I enjoyed the acting part of it, but I wasn’t comfortable with the attention. I wanted to be a regular kid; I wasn’t comfortable with people reading about me and knowing so much about me.” His father supported him completely. “The best advice he ever gave me was when he told me it was OK to quit. He said it has to come from within, and if you’re not 100-percent sure, don’t do it. He was working onstage at the time, not doing international films. And he said, ‘Ninety percent of my friends who are actors, brilliant actors, can’t support themselves.’ ”

When he turned 20, the siren call of performing lured him back. “I didn’t want to wake up bitter at 55 for not having tried,” he says. He moved to New York to attend theater school at Marymount Manhattan College, and “from day one, I fell in love.” Another love in the form of his current girlfriend lured him back to Sweden after only a year. After working every odd job from busboy to barista, he landed a role in a movie called “Happy End.” Others followed; most notable to American audiences was his turn in “Zoolander” as male model Meekus, whose cheerful gasoline fight ends in tragedy.

While in Mozambique shooting the HBO miniseries “Generation Kill,” he first caught wind of Alan Ball’s upcoming series “True Blood.” At the time he was less than excited. “Someone just said, ‘Oh, it’s a show about vampires. You’re this Viking vampire,’ ” he recalls. “This was before ‘Twilight’ and all the vampire hype. So I was like, What are you talking about? Then I heard it was Alan Ball and HBO, and the combination of the two made me think this could be interesting.” He put himself on tape from Mozambique; his audition scene was Eric Northman’s first scene in Season 1, and the producers were interested. But the show conflicted with his “Generation Kill” schedule, and he wasn’t available. “I wasn’t going to do it,” Skarsgård says. “And then the writer’s strike happened, and ‘True Blood’ had to push. And it helped me be able to do the show.”

His sexy, commanding turn as Northman made him an overnight star for the second time. It also ensured that a slew of scripts were sent his way, all of which involved characters who were basically “non-vampire versions of Eric.” As much as he loves the character, Skarsgård says he has no interest in duplicating roles. “I want to have fun, and I want to be challenged. I want that mystery of a new character,” he says. “If I have all the answers before I even start the process, where’s the growth or adventure in that?”

Instead, he has gravitated to smaller, independent films. Like his father, he worked with Lars von Trier, appearing in “Melancholia.” Even though that film was about the end of the world, Skarsgård calls it “one of the most fun sets I’ve ever been on.” He has nothing against big films—he appeared in last year’s “Battleship”—but says his day job affords him a new luxury. “I’ve always freelanced as an actor, and you always have to worry about the next paycheck. When I booked ‘True Blood,’ I promised myself I would take advantage of the fact that for the first time in my career, I could afford to turn down big money to go and do small, character-driven indies.”

There is no diva behavior on set, according to Marling. “In ‘The East,’ there were monologues in the script, and Alex would actually say, ‘I don’t think Benji needs to say all of this; I think it’s clear with what’s happening in the story,’ ” she says. “That’s pretty rare to have an actor say I don’t need these lines—let’s trust where the story is going.”

How does his representation feel about his eschewing the big paychecks, considering the catering budget for “Battleship” was probably greater than his salary for “The East”? Skarsgård laughs and says, “They’re actually incredibly supportive. My agents get me, and they’re very much on my side.”

“True Blood” fans are a passionate lot, so how is he handling the onslaught of attention, considering it made him quit once before? “I approach it differently than when I was 13,” he says. “Then, it made me really insecure and paranoid. Now I know that if someone comes up to me, it’s because they like what I do and what I do has affected that person. I invest so much blood, sweat, and tears into my projects that it’s wonderful when people respond to that. I’ve done projects I care about a lot and no one saw it. So I can’t find the attention horrible. I’ve been on both sides, and it’s definitely better when people care about what you do.”

Asked if he can reveal anything about the new season, Skarsgård chooses his words carefully. “There’s a war going on this season because for the first time in 1,000 years, humans are a real threat,” he says. “Eric’s been busy fighting witches and other vampires, but never humans. You’ll find out how and why, but humans have become a danger.” He adds that the most difficult scene he’s ever had to perform on the show is coming up this season, though he can’t go into detail. “I recently had to do a very emotional scene with a blood bag,” he says, allowing a small smile. “I can’t talk about it too much, but that was quite difficult.”

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[wanderingstar78]

Posted by davischristinem
Nov 6 13 2:53 AM

From: ericandsookielovers.com/2013/11/05/alexander-skarsgard-interviewed-by-maxima-magazine-sept-2013/

Thanks to one of our frequent visitors and fellow Eric & Sookie lover, Alexandra aka Dracul…who sent us this interview and scans from Maxima Magazine all the way from Austria! This issue was published back in September, but you don’t mind…as long as you read about him, right?


Do we have your attention NOW?


Alexandra translated the interview and asked that we please excuse her English because it’s not her first language. (No worries! We appreciate this very much!)

You can read the interview below – followed by the scans themselves.

Interview with Alexander Skarsgard
„Schwedenbombe“
(you can’t translate this into proper english – it’s an austrian sweetie, something like a chocolate marshmallow); word by word translation would be „swedes bomb“.

Alexander Skarsgård is one of the biggest newcomer talents Sweden has to offer.

If there wouldn’t be the prominent factor (prominent father) the likeable actor would have followed his father’s footsteps way earlier. For the last ten years Alexander Skarsgård has been living in California. The first five years have been rather difficult and he spent more time sailing than going to auditions. Since the success of True Blood, Skarsgård’s career is rising and the sexy vampire can full fill his dream. He can pick roles due to creativity and not money. He is the eldest son of Swedish actor Stellån Skarsgård. He and his siblings have seen their father mostly on stage, which arouse his fascination for this profession. 1983 he succeeded in his first part in “Åke och hans värld“ (Ake and his world) but the success insecured him that much, so he stopped acting and finished school instead. After a study visit in NYC Skarsgård decided to go on with his stage work and he appeared in some Swedish productions. 2001 he visited LA and he at once he got a part in Ben Stiller’s Zoolander. Hence Skarsgård wasn’t sure about staying in Hollywood. During this phase he started to write scripts and he directed the highly acclaimed short „Att döda ett barn“ (To kill a child). He got the attention of the American critics with the mini-series Generation Kill and 2008 he got the offer to portray the 1000 yrs old vampire Eric Northman. In the meantime the 6th season is finished. Since last year the 37-year old is the first male actor who starred in a CK promotion and he even settled down.

Since five years TB is a hit series and you are named one of the sexiest vampires.
I’m not a vampire and I think that nobody sees himself as sexy.

How do you explain yourself the fascination of vampires?
Vampires are mysterious and there are lots of legends and stories around those creatures. Concerning TB, plot and characters have developed a lot, there were no recurrences during the last five years. Even we actors get to know the plot some weeks ahead of shooting. That makes it very exciting.

What have you learned by doing TV series?
Also after the 50th take you have to have the same energy like in the 1st take. Otherwise you don’t feel the character and the result is lame.

You are named a heart-throb. Is there an important wife in your life?
The most charismatic wife in my life is my granny. The wife I admire most is my mum. I have a very dearly beloved relationship with her. How she raised 6 children and earned a medical degree is unbelievable to me, taking into consideration that my father was hardly at home. He spent 16-17 hours in the theatre, Saturdays and Sundays included. When I saw my dad, it was on stage.

Despite you followed his footsteps.
Yes, and two of my siblings are actors, too. But the real star of our family is my brother, he is earning a medical degree as well.

Why did you become an actor and what have you learned from your father?
During my childhood creative people working in the theatres have impressed me already. I have seen my dad lots on stage, so I gained some knowledge there. The longer I’m living here in LA , the more I came to the conclusion that my dad guarded his private life very well. Of course, there haven’t been paparazzi in Sweden during his time and LA is different to Sweden. Cause I do know both world’s it’s important for me to keep my private life to myself. I don’t want that everybody knows where I’m refueling my car, where I do my groceries and with whom I’m having a coffee. I’ll take more attention to that as soon as I’m having a family. I don’t want my children to be children of famous parents.

That sounds as if you want to stay in America and as you won’t go back to Sweden?
Yep, I love Sweden but my home is changing in political ways. The right parties are gaining strength and that insecures me. Blaming the immigrants is too simple, instead we should ask why our society isn’t integrating them. In Sweden, it’s still a fact that a Swede has better chances to get a well-paid job as an immigrant from Iraq. Sweden was proud of being a welfare state. The last two years the level of income changed a lot. The safety net isn’t there anymore and the riots are an outcome of this inequalities.

In the movie The East you are a leader of a group of anarchists, which attack corrupt companies. Is this a current issue for you?
That’s the reason I took the part. The frustration of those people is coherent. We see every day that billions of dollars are given to lobbyists, to buy votes and power in politics. That has nothing to do with democracy. The man on the street stays behind. The difference between me and Benji – my character – is that I prefer the civil disobedience.

Speaking of money. What’s your relationship towards money?
Thanks to the success of True Blood I’m financially sound. Before True Blood I took parts to pay my bills. Now I can afford to take parts in independent movies like The East or Melancholia, where we have worked literally for free.

What was your most luxurious investment?
A house. I bought my first house two years ago. Before I was doing „couch-surfing“ a couple of years and actually I lived two years in a friend’s garage. Some day I woke up and realized that it’s time to become a grown-up and to stop my nomadic life.

You are in CK fragrance commericals. Which fragrance do you like most?
Being the first male actor, who is the face of CK is an honour to me. I love fragrances which smell natural. Maybe this has to do something with my childhood. I grew up in South Stockholm and next to my childhood house there was this butcher’s shop. I still have that smell in my nose – as soon as I’m talking about it. I prefer the smell of a sausage ten times more as every single artificial flavour.

Minibiography Alexander Skarsgård
Born: 25th August 1976 in Stockholm
5 siblings, 2 half-siblings
Father: Actor Stellån Skarsgård
Alexander Skarsgård filmography:
1983 Ake and his world
1989 Hunden som log
1999 Happy End
2001 Zoolander
2006 The Last Mission
2008 Generation Kill
2008 till now True Blood
2011 Straw Dogs
2011 Melancholia
2012 Battelship
2012 Testimonal for CK
2013 What Maisie Knew
2013 The East
(The East and What Maisie Knew are in local theatres since July 2013)

Quotes featured in the scans.
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It’s important to me, to keep my private life to myself.
~Alexander Skarsgard handling with publicity
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There are lots of rumours about me, but not that many women in my life.
~Alexander Skarsgard about his image as heart-throb
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Agent Sarah should gain influence on the anarchist Benji only to blast his plans.

[wanderingstar78]

Posted by Blue Butterfly
Oct 31 13 2:18 PM

www.bustle.com/articles/7920-michael-fassbender-says-hes-not-good-looking-5-other-hot-guys-who-think-theyre-not/5

Michael Fassbender Says He's Not Good-Looking: 5 Other Hot Guys Who Think They're Not


Skarsgard is the reason why viewers watched True Blood past the second season, but despite his obvious hotness, According to Elle UK, Skarsgard sometimes feels like "the ugliest person on the planet". Why do you mock us, Alexander Skarsgard?

[wanderingstar78]

Posted by Blue Butterfly
Oct 31 13 2:25 PM

6 Celebrity Styles We Want to Steal

These guys prove there’s nothing wrong with a laid-back look.



Alexander Skarsgard
He may be known for being a night-walking vampire on True Blood, but Alexander Skarsgard had pretty good daytime style, too. He stuck with one color scheme here—gray—creating a monochrome look that seems laid-back and polished at the same time.

www.mensfitness.com/gear/fashion-and-trends/6-celebrity-styles-we-want-to-steal?page=3

[wanderingstar78]

Posted by Blue Butterfly
Nov 11 13 12:47 PM

BLUE AND GOLD
By Mariana Enriquez

He grew up in Stockholm in the 70s and if Sweden carries the liberal paradise myth, the house of Alexander Skarsgård was a concentrate of Eden. All family and friends lived in the same street, several houses with doors that never were locked, a community of hippies and artists who gathered every night to drink and eat, and almost all were naked and in groups of ten or fifteen. “It was chaos,” says Alexander, “and at the same time was a very loving, very funny.” Her father was famous in the ’70s: is actor Stellan Skarsgård, and Hollywood favorite fetish-starred in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves, Dogville and Dancer acted in the dark, and now I can see very naked and paunchy in posters of Nymphomaniac, the last Danish crazy eccentricity. In the 70s, when Alexander grew, dad Stellan was a star of the notorious Swedish erotic film industry, at the same time making conventional films and received respectable actor at the Royal Academy of Drama. “I saw him dressed for the first time at age 13,” Alexander told the talk show host Conan O’Brien. “At home I was always naked. She cooked naked. ” “Is not that dangerous?” O’Brien wanted to know. And Alexander: “No, have median. Pulling large. It came to splash “. Stellan Dad agreed to cover when their children-a total of six with his first wife, now divorced, and has eight creatures that bear his name-began bringing girls home, they were very Swedish but they were so used to nudity militant.

Alexander Skarsgård grew very fast. At 13 he made his first film in Sweden because the director was a friend of his father, but did not like being recognized. Nobody pressured. It never pressured him. It was punk, dyed her hair pink, and nobody cared to rebel, at 18, decided to do military service and study political science. The ultra-liberals, pacifists and atheists Skarsgård had emergency meetings first concerned by the eldest son, but Alexander soon reassured left the army and went to New York to study acting. “I needed discipline,” apologized to his father. Then, at age 19, and measured 1.94, was blond as a golden sunrise, blue eyes shone between rogues and good-natured and had a body so fabulous that rained modeling proposals. Instead, in 2001 agreed to serve as a model in Zoolander, Ben Stiller, where did the absolutely hollow Meekus. For the first time, Alexander Skarsgard laughed at her stunning beauty. There are not many players like him, voted the world’s sexiest comedians also be true, to be laughed causing fainting, the absurdity of being so desired, chased, fantasized. After many films in Sweden that almost nobody saw abroad, in 2008 Ed Burns and David Simon, The Wire makers-was offered the lead role in Generation Kill, a miniseries for HBO based on Evan Wright’s book on the actions of the Marines in Iraq in 2003. Alexander was Brad Colbert, blond sergeant burned beneath the desert sun, so American that few could believe he was not born in Wisconsin. That same year, HBO re-employ him for the role that made him an icon pop: the vampire Eric Northman in the series by Alan Ball, True Blood. A vampire than a thousand years old, owner of a bowling alley, pansexual, viking, murderer, liar, loyal when needed, more and more screen time, because fans so require. For Eric, Alexander studied the movements of lions to be seen, soaring and graceful, having sex with “I Wish I Was the Moon” by Neko Case, killing a lover for revenge during a night of false passion, ripping genitals the man who murdered his sister vampire or a smirk on his lips as he perpetuates homoerotic relationship with his intimate enemy, the vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer). At the end of the sixth season of True Blood, Alexander Skarsgard made the first full frontal nudity of a star on television. There were others: Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy) in Game of Thrones, or (false, because they are computer) of various actors in Spartacus. But never a protagonist so famous front was shown in all its glory.

To the side and quietly, while enjoying popularity on TV, Alexander Skarsgård grown indie actor profile, with uneven results. In 2011, he made the excellent Melancholia, directed by Lars von Trier and with his father Stellan, was lovely and perfect as the husband of Kirsten Dunst depression. And now stars in two notable films. One is What Maisie Knew (2012), contemporary adaptation of the novel by Henry James, where is the groom but decent tontolote a rock star (Julianne Moore) who can not handle his career decadent, divorce and especially his little daughter . And the other is The East (2013, Zal Batmanglij), a thriller about eco-terrorists where Benji, semilíder of an anarchist group that attacks laboratory owners, water pollutants and other real-life villains. It might be a silly movie, but the truth is that The East manages to complicate what we mean by back to nature, without judging these neo Thoreau but neither idealizing, not save or justify unscrupulous employers, but it is a movie conspiranoica. The East is a rarity: an intelligent film that also has action and tension. Benji, then: ecoterrorista wounded, with blue eyes always glaze over, shoulders responsibility-laden Alexander is very high, the burden goes well-, dirty beard, kissing boys, several nude unnecessary (for the plot, means: seeing him naked is never a waste), Scandinavian depression that shakes the broken chin, delicate lips, huge hands, as a laborer, his voice low.

Right now I just say no to 50 shades of Grey (Grey Christian role he was “redundant”) to The Giver, with Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges, on a novel by Lois Lowry. He invented a romance with Taylor Swift; earlier, another with Ellen Page. He says there are things he does not speak, who learned it from his father, does not want to know too. So, after filming serious films, appears in Lady Gaga videos and Australian electropop band Cut Copy, is the face of the new fragrance from Calvin Klein and let your friends get on YouTube where a private video so very drunk dancing half naked and kisses her ass the actor Rhys Thomas in a scene of incredible burst. At age 38, Alexander Skarsgård is a god of the north indecipherable, camp and elegant, exhibitionist and reserved, sensual and vaguely dangerous, sometimes so awkward with her long legs, between professionalism and hangovers. Not even seem concerned about his future in Hollywood. “In Sweden, my best friends are carpenters, traders, workers,” he said in an interview with Blackbook. “They are not impressed by anything I do in Los Angeles. I have feet on the ground so that sometimes I frighten me. “

Unproofed translation from google. Original article posted yesterday in Argentinian paper.

www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/radar/9-9277-2013-11-10.html

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[wanderingstar78]

Posted by Blue Butterfly
Jan 17 14 4:34 AM

Published on Jan 13, 2014

06/02/2013 Alex Talks "The East" "True Blood S6" "Hidden" COLLIDER Interview