Photoshoots and Interviews - 2019

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This thread is for any of Alex's interviews and photoshoots published in 2019

These will be permanent files of ‘first-run’ interviews (video and text) with the actor, the articles that are written about the actor personally (not about his projects), and formal photoshoots.

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A Few New Alex Portraits +

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Alex photographed by Maarten de Boer at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival (September 2018, Ontario) and the Summer 2018 Television Critics Association press tour (July 28, 2018, California).

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British GQ Loves Alex's Style!

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NEW interview with Alexander Skarsgård in Cosmopolitan Germany (March 2019).
The interview is from Patrick Heidmann and was translated by @littlebulletsucker. (Thank you so much!!)

A date with … Alexander Skarsgård
Even Cosmo chief reporter Melanie Jassner needs a vacation every once in a while. Therefore in this issue: Author Patrick Heidmann meets the currently most successful and hottest Swede in Hollywood.

A penchant for humor “I don’t know why I mostly play dark characters. Humor is exactly my thing. So give me comedies” says the actor.

The fact that Alexander Skarsgård, with his half-naked roles in ‘True Blood’ and 'The Legend of Tarzan’ has been a regular on all sexiest-man lists is not immediately apparent when we meet for the interview in the hip 'Ham Yard Hotel’ in London. With his jeans and shirt the 1.94 meter man seems more like the perfect son in law. He talks charmingly, polite and open but questions of a private nature, like about on/off girlfriend Alexa Chung, are undesired. The Swede, who won a Golden Globe for 'Big Little Lies’ last year, loves his freedom. Until he bought his apartment in New York in 2018, he lived in between filmings in Sweden, London and Los Angeles.

When it comes to work he doesn’t like to be typecast. He struggles against the image as a sex symbol with dark and serious roles like in the movie 'The Aftermath’. And the espionage mini-series 'The Little Drummer Girl’. The six part series is based on a novel of bestseller author John le Carré – he even serves him coffee in one scene. During the interview the Swede prefers to drink water, which he gets for himself from the minibar.

Mister Skarsgård, your father Stellan Skarsgård was also in a le Carré film a while ago. How is it to have a successful actor for a father – do you often ask for advice?

Not when it comes to work. When we talk, and we often do, we have more interesting topics, like world politics or the family…

Your family is rather big. You have four younger brothers, two halfbrothers and a sister. What is the first thing you remember when you think back to your youth?

I remember that my father liked to walk around naked at home. Even when my friends were there. They got used to it at some point. Only when I wanted to bring a girl home, was I a bit embarrassed about it. Conveniently my father used to be away for longer periods because of work.

Do Scandinavians have a different understanding of nudity?

Yes, absolutely. We sit together in the sauna and then jump naked into the cold lake. I have no problem with being naked in front of the camera. It always fascinates me that it is such a big issue in the US. Still there were moments in my youth where I wished my father wasn’t a wine drinking free spirit and artist but simply a boring accountant in a suit.

His job however seems to have made an impression on the boys in your household. You and your four brothers are all actors…

True. But my father never encouraged that. Because he knew, that the job could be tough. He know many colleagues who couldn’t make a living of it. Only when he realized that I was serious about it, did he support me.

You were seven when you first stood in front of the camera for 'Ake and his world’.

Because it was fun for me. But I stopped when I was 13. It made me really insecure when people recognized me on the street. When I met a girl I never knew if she only talked to me because she knew me from TV. That is still a strange feeling today but during puberty it was too much for me. When you’re already a mess because of all the hormones …

What did you do until you returned to acting?

After graduating school I only went surfing for a year. After that I volunteered for the navy because I was looking for a challenge. I was in an anti terror unit. We had to secure the islands around Stockholm against sabotage and terrorism. That was physically and mentally very exhausting. Sometimes I really hated it. But that time was very important for my personal development.

What did you learn there?

Teamwork and discipline.

Does that mean since then you see everything through?

Not completely. Because my father gave me some of the best advice: It is okay to give up. That does not make you a loser. And very important: If you are not a hundred percent convinced of something, let it be. That has always been his motto.

Is it 100 percent sure that we will see you in the second season of 'Big Little Lies’ that starts soon?

I can only tell you this much: You will see me and it was a great honor to have Meryl Streep play my mother.

Mother is a nice word for the last question. What did your mother, the doctor My Skarsgård, teach you?

She raised me to be a feminist. We often talk on the phone and have a great relationship. The great thing is that my parents, even though they divorced after 35 years of marriage and six kids, still remained friends.

Cosmo reader question:

Dear Alexander Skarsgård, how did you grow up?

Sheltered, spoiled and well-off in the middle of Sweden’s capital Stockholm.



Photo by Maarten de Boer (taken at TIFF in September 2018). Again, littlebulletsucker, I cannot thank you enough for translating this!

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February 20, 2019

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Cross-posted from The Aftermath thread:

Alexander Skarsgård: 'I love playing flawed heroes'
From new post-war film Aftermath to Godzilla vs Kong, Alexander Skarsgård has range. The smouldering Swede tells Craig McLean about being single and Big Little Lies rumours

CRAIG MCLEAN

It’s early Sunday morning on Park Lane and Alexander Skarsgård and I are comparing fuzzy heads. I’m suffering after a Saturday night in Shoreditch — “Oh, that’s a good neighbourhood,” he says eagerly, very much the party-hearty Swede — and the actor had dinner and drinks in… “Where the f*** did we go?” he frowns, his eyes pouchy (just a bit). “Mayfair somewhere.”

To be fair, the award-winning star of HBO’s Big Little Lies and the BBC’s The Little Drummer Girl has “killer jet lag”, having just flown in from the other side of the world.

“I arrived from Australia yesterday and I have the premiere tomorrow night, then I leave for Australia again on Tuesday morning,” says Skarsgård, an oak-like presence, 6ft 4ins and a boyish 42 years old. “Do you want some coffee by the way?”

Most actors wedged into a suite at The Dorchester at breakfast o’clock on a Sunday, kicking off 48 hours of promotion for their new film, aren’t nearly this solicitous. Especially when they’re on a working weekend away from the three-month shoot of a blockbuster movie — Godzilla vs Kong — that’s being made pretty much as far away from London as you can get.
This, though, is Skarsgård all over: committed. He did seven seasons on vampire drama True Blood becoming, in the process, almost as big a star as his dad, Stellan Skarsgård (Cinderella, The Avengers). To carry off an eight-pack in a loincloth in The Legend of Tarzan (2016) he became a slave to the gym and protein. Shooting Big Little Lies, in which he played Nicole Kidman’s violently abusive husband, he worked hard with the actress to choreograph their fight scenes.
“We had to,” he says in smooth, American-accented English born of two decades based there, “because it was dangerous if we didn’t. Nicole is committed and wanted to do almost everything on her own [without a stunt double]. You saw the show — it’s violent. I had to throw her over tables and chairs. So you find a structure, but you obviously want to be loose when you shoot it. So it doesn’t feel like we’re going through the motions. You have to release and go with it.”

That dedication won Skarsgård an Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe awards. It won Kidman something very different. As her husband, musician Keith Urban, told me last year: “She had the bruises to show for it.”

“She was purple after that,” says Skarsgård now. “But she would still be like, ‘All right, let’s go again’. It was tough to shoot those scenes.”
Skarsgård is similarly invested in his new film, The Aftermath, a post-Second World War drama set in Hamburg, in which he stars alongside Keira Knightley. He plays a German architect who has to give over his grand home to the occupying powers, in the shape of a British officer (Jason Clarke) and his wife (Knightley).

Everyone is suffering: the starving civilians of bomb-shattered Hamburg, grieving Skarsgård (his character lost his wife in the bombing) and haunted Knightley (her son was killed in the Blitz). You may not be surprised to learn that a desperate love affair soon blooms. The notably thoughtful leading man, though, locked on to another aspect of the story.

“This guy is broken. I also loved that he’s not a hero — he doesn’t have a monologue about how he was part of the resistance and fought against Hitler. He is stuck there and keeps his head down. He is conflicted, and that was interesting to me. My issue with Second World War movies or literature is that they’re rarely nuanced. It’s black and white, the good Allies versus the evil Germans. As if 70 million Germans were bad? I don’t find that psychologically interesting and I don’t subscribe to that narrative.

Skarsgård and I talked last year when he was promoting The Little Drummer Girl, the John le Carré adaptation that didn’t quite pack the punch of its predecessor, The Night Manager. But he and co-star Florence Pugh were terrific together. And this despite the pair only meeting for the first time, he told me, “in the make-up trailer on set in London a week before we started shooting”.

He had more of a head start at chemistry with Knightley, having met her a decade previously while visiting his dad on the Los Angeles set of Pirates of the Caribbean.

“Both Jason and Keira are very confident people. But they don’t have big egos. So it was about whatever served the story and the plot, not what would give them an opportunity to shine. It wasn’t ‘me, me, me, me, me’. I’ve worked with actors like that and I find it incredibly frustrating. But Keira has none of that. So it was such a joy.”

It seems like being in London was in itself a factor in persuading him to commute today from Sydney. Skarsgård knows the city well, having spent time here after starting a relationship with Alexa Chung in 2015.

“London Fields is my favourite. But for both Tarzan and Little Drummer Girl I stayed around Notting Hill, Ladbroke Grove and Holland Park — they were both shot on the west side, and to do a daily commute through London is just a nightmare. On Tarzan I didn’t have a social life — it was just about filming and training and eating and sleeping. So it was perfect to be in west London — less distraction and less temptation!”

Despite his globetrotting schedule he’s abreast of Brexit. Well, as much as anyone is. A second referendum, Skarsgård reasons, “could lead to a terrible situation — a Remain vote will create even more tension in the country, and an uprising, and riots. That could turn very, very bloody.”

"Hanging out with a giant lizard and a giant ape in Godzilla vs Kong was just what I needed"
Alexander Skarsgård
That same schedule means he’s currently single and is looking forward to some time off in his new Stockholm apartment after Godzilla vs Kong — although that monster-mash movie is proving a tonic after a run of projects with “very intense subject matter. Hanging out with a giant lizard and a giant ape was just what I needed right now.”

What, though, can he tell us of series two of Big Little Lies? The rumours are that his character, despite being dead, reappears. “I just can’t say much about it,” Skarsgård grins. “I’ve read the scripts, I think it’s a great story, and the fact that they would inject Meryl [Streep] into it as my mother — it just creates an interesting dynamic. Am I in it in flashback? I guess we’ll all find out in summer,” he smiles.

Anyway, before all that, he has a film to promote and a red carpet to walk. “On a movie like this, where you’ve had a great time, with people that you genuinely love, the premiere is like a high school reunion — although I saw Keira a couple of times when I shot Big Little Lies here,” he says.

What’s that? He is in Big Little Lies 2, and it’s partly set in London? Or was that the jet lag talking and he meant his other TV show with “Little” in the title? Roll on June…

The Aftermath is in cinemas from tomorrow
www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/alexander-skarsg-rd-on-playing-flawed-heroes-a4078986.html

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Also posted in The Aftermath thread

www.metro.news/sixty-seconds-with-alexander-skarsgard/1453936/

Sixty Seconds with Alexander Skarsgård
by James Mottram
Published February 27, 2019



■ The Swedish Big Little Lies star, 43, on sex scenes, signature dishes and the one strict rule in his famous family

Your new film, The Aftermath, is set just after the end of World War II. Did you feel it was an unusual slant on a familiar subject?
The story of the war has been told so many times in literature and on screen but not often in a very nuanced way. It’s always the heroic Allies versus the evil Germans and then they throw in a token ‘good’ German to prove they were not all bad. Here, I thought it was beautiful to get to know the people on the other side of the trenches. My character, Stefan Lubert, has been compromised so he carries a lot of guilt. It felt like a real character.

You and Keira Knightley have an intense sex scene. What’s the secret?
You’ve just got to commit to it and go for it. If you get nervous or start holding back, it gets weird. I had a sex scene with Greek actor Theo Alexander on True Blood. He’s also straight and we were like, ‘OK, dude, here we go!’ We were naked, making out, rolling around on the rug in front of a fireplace. But we were both really excited about the scene.

You come from a big acting family led by your father Stellan, who starred in Mamma Mia! and Good Will Hunting. Are you all very close?
Very much so. The hub is still Södermalm, south Stockholm, where we grew up. I live in New York. I haven’t had a place in Stockholm in 15 years and I just got an apartment there because I want to spend more time home in Sweden. Two of my brothers have children and it’s even harder now when I’m away, with those little kids. You’re gone for four or five months, then you come home and they barely recognise you. I’m excited to be spending more time in Stockholm and when I am there we all live two blocks from each other. It’s wonderful. We are a very tight family and Dad loves to cook. We all get there in the afternoon, hang out, play with the kids and then we eat and drink wine all night.

What’s his signature dish?
He doesn’t really have one dish. He is inspired by his travels. He will come home from Vietnam and then he will be all about Vietnamese food for a couple of months. Then he will be down in Morocco and he will come home and it will be tagines for a couple of months. He’s an extraordinary chef, he really is. Arguably more passionate about that than acting! When he’s not working, he will wake up thinking about what to cook for dinner. He has his routine where he goes down to the market, talks to the butcher, gets the good stuff, then goes to the liquor store and gets his wine and goes home. Then from three or four he will be cooking.

Did you grow up with any strict rules?
Dad was strict about punctuality, which he got from his father. And I appreciate that. If we decide to meet at six o’clock and you turn up at 6.20, you’ve just stolen 20 minutes of my life. It’s disrespectful. Either let me know in advance or have a good excuse… out of laziness or bad planning is not acceptable. But it contradicted his personality because he wasn’t a strict dad overall. He was very bohemian and very relaxed. He let us do our thing when we were children: explore our own paths, make our own mistakes and find our way in life. Punctuality was the one thing he was very militaristic about.

You did a stint of military service. Did you learn discipline there too?
I don’t know if it’s a case of chicken or the egg here. When I was a kid I was quite organised and I don’t know if that attracted me to the military or whether it was the other way around. I think it was in my DNA. But it became essential to be organised during those 18 months in the military. When you are out in the woods in the middle of the night, if you don’t know where you packed stuff in your backpack, you are in trouble.

Doubtless it helped for getting into shape when you played Tarzan. Did you keep the muscles?
No. It was so lovely to just let go and eat whatever I wanted and to drink and relax. We filmed it in London and our costume designer gave me a massive banoffee pie when we wrapped. It was incredible!

You played a spy in the BBC’s The Little Drummer Girl. Does this mean you hold a fantasy to play James Bond?
I grew up loving the Bond movies and I’m still a big fan of them but not really.

You’re in the middle of shooting Godzilla Vs Kong. How has it been going?
Oh, I’m loving it. For the past two years I’ve been shooting cerebral movies and TV with a lot of very dark subject matter such as The Aftermath, so very fulfilling and interesting projects, but also emotionally draining. My character in Godzilla Vs Kong is very different. He’s not the stereotypical action hero.

The Aftermath opens on March 1

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www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/alexander-skarsgard-warns-of-dangers-of-identity-politics-and-growing-tribalism-37871481.html

Alexander Skarsgard warns of dangers of identity politics and growing tribalism
The Big Little Lies star said social media has eliminated nuance from political debate.


Alexander Skarsgard (Ian West/PA)

By Laura Harding, Press Association Senior Entertainment Correspondent
March 2 2019 3:37 PM

Alexander Skarsgard has spoken about the danger of identity politics, warning that it drives people further apart.

The Big Little Lies star said he believes tribalism often takes priority over intelligent conversation, and more people are existing in echo chambers where their own views are re-enforced.

He told the Press Association: “We play identity politics, and with the tribalism we are drifting further and further from each other, and I definitely don’t think social media is helping.


Alexander Skarsgard (Ian West/PA)

“Anything that is nuanced now disappears between the people screaming on the fringes and it’s more important to stay with your tribe than actually try to reach out and have an intelligent conversation with the other side, and to try to understand their point of view and where they are coming from because you might not agree with that person.

“But I think you would learn a lot by doing that, more so than confirmation bias and just reading articles that you already agree with and digging your heels in.”

Skarsgard said he sees parallels between modern global politics and the issues raised in his new film The Aftermath, about a British colonel and his wife who are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, where tensions arise with a German, played by Skarsgard, who owns the house they take over.



He added: “This is about that, isn’t it? When Keira (Knightley)’s character shows up she’s decided. She hates this man because he’s German and in her eyes this is the killer of her son, even though Stefan (played by Skarsgard) obviously had nothing to do with that.

“But by virtue of being German it’s his fault and she doesn’t want to reach out and doesn’t want to talk to him, but then eventually they realise they have a lot in common and they share much more than they first thought.”

The Aftermath is out now in UK cinemas.

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people.com/movies/alexander-skarsgard-says-he-has-no-problem-doing-nude-scenes/

Alexander Skarsgård Has No Problem Doing Nude Scenes: 'The Crazier the Better'
How very Swedish! The Golden Globe winning star Alexander Skarsgard says he has no problem with nudity or sex scenes onscreen

By GILLIAN TELLING
March 06, 2019 03:11 PM

Swedish star Alexander Skarsgård, 42, is the first to acknowledge that he plays a lot of troubled, brooding bad boy characters—who also happen to take their shirts off a lot.

But the star of the new World War II drama The Aftermath (also starring Keira Knightley, out March 15) shrugs when he’s asked if he’s ever had an issue with showing off his (fine, they’re incredible) abs.

“Of course not,” he tells PEOPLE. “I spent seven years on True Blood, and there was a lot of graphic nudity on that show.”

There was also a lot of crazy sex scenes, which he says he also had no problem with.

“The crazier the better,” he says. “I loved it. I really embraced it. It was a lot of fun.”

In fact, it was rumored that the single Skarsgård, who’s the son of actor Stellan and older brother to actors Bill (It) and Gustav(Vikings) was once in the running to play Christian Grey in the 50 Shades of Grey adaptation.

“I met the producers very early on but I never read the script or auditioned for it,” he says. “I never got that far. I think the author had a favorite, someone that she wanted to play that role.”

Still, things have never been busier in Skarsgård’s career. After breaking out in the U.S. with the 2008 HBO series Generation Kill, he landed the role of villainous vampire Eric Northman on True Blood before taking on another TV villain—domestic abuser Perry Wright in Big Little Lies, for which he won a Golden Globe.

“Swedes are quite uncomfortable talking about our accolades or accomplishments and ourselves in a way,” he says of his big win. “I get very uncomfortable doing that, hence not knowing what to do with the Golden Globe. I was like ‘Argh, this is awkward and embarrassing.’

Now, right after his acclaimed role in The Little Drummer Girl, he’s starring in two films at the same time: The Hummingbird Project, and The Aftermath, in which he plays a German widower who has an affair with Keira Knightley.

“Keira is phenomenal to work with,” he says. “She’s incredibly talented obviously, but also very open and generous and she doesn’t take herself too seriously. She has a very funny, self-deprecating sense of humor which I really enjoy. No big ego—she cares more about the relationship in the film than her own performance.”

Next he’ll star in the summer comedy The Long Shot, opposite Charlize Theronthis link opens in a new tab and Seth Rogen.

“I’m looking forward to a little bit of rest,” he says about taking a break from his current crazy schedule. “I grew up in a city so I like city life. I love going to rock clubs, bars, hanging out. But there are weekends when you don’t want that intensity…so I love exploring, going on long hikes or sailing trips, being out in nature. But essentially I’m a city boy.”

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Photo of Alex by Ruben V Nepales

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As always, thank you to Skarsjoy for her scans.

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New interview with Alexander Skarsgård for Italy’s Tu Style magazine (dated March 5, 2019).
by Silvia Mapelli. Portrait by Vera Anderson

Headlines on Page 30:
Transplanting in the Big Apple [United States]15 years ago, the actor had other dreams as a child. And he will return to his Stockholm as soon as he can.

Alexander Skarsgård: But I wanted to be an architect.


Blue box on page 31:
Actor “by chance.” On the left, Alexander Skarsgård with Jason Clarke (49 years) and Keira Knightley (33) in the film The Aftermath. In the center, in the BBC series The Little Drummer Girl and right, with Alexa Chung (35), his girlfriend until 2017.


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Alexander Skarsgård does not have problems to appear naked.

“Credit to my father Stellan (one of the boyfriends of Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia! ed), which was often without clothes in our home in Stockholm,” he says smiling. Blond, rock-hard abdominals and a long list of girlfriends, the Swedish actor has two others passions: extreme experiences (the Walking With the Wounded expedition to the South Pole with Prince Harry, the crossing of the Atlantic), and the awkward but fascinating characters, like Nicole Kidman’s husband in the Big Little Lies series (which he earned a Golden Globe), and Stefan Lubert, protagonist of The Aftermath, in cinemas from 21 March (in Italy). Set in the Hamburg post-war, the film tells the difficult relationship between his character, widower with a daughter teenager, and the couple who has occupied his house. Rachel (Keira Knightley) is disappointed with her husband (Jason Clarke) whom has decided to share the house with the former owners. At the beginning, Stefan and Rachel, who has lost a son in the bombings, cannot get along, and then they fall for each other.

(AS) "You want to hate him, because I think he feels so guilty of his son’s death, how he considers his wife responsible,” says Skarsgård. "But when they start to know each other, understand humanity one of the other, and the pain becomes the cement of the union.”

This empathy for others suffering may be the key to reflect on the fate of whom still live in the war zones …

(AS) "I hope. Because in our society and in particular in America, where I live from over 15 years, everyone is closed in their own group and has no interest to understand the other. Social media contributes to exasperate the situation.”

So, what do you suggest?

(AS) “We need to communicate, to look to understand the reasons for diversities. To put yourself in the shoes of others is fundamental for survival of our society.“

A Swede in New York: what do you lament of your land?

(AS) "Familiarity with the places. During the summer, at Christmas and every time I have a break, I try to go back to Stockholm, where I have an apartment and where my family lives. I’m always on the road for work, and if on the one hand discovering new places and meeting new people is fun, on the other hand it’s a new experience that has no relation to my personal story.”

A sentimental …

(AS) "Yes, every corner in Stockholm refers to a particular event of my life. I argued with my best friend, I kissed my first girl, I played ball… Every road brings me back at some moment of my childhood or adolescence. A feeling that I love and that, I confess, when I am far away, I miss it very much.”

Is it true that as a boy you liked studying architecture and that even though you started at age 8, being an actor was just a fallback?

(AS) "Very true! In fact I stopped at 13 years old: I wanted to be like my friends, people’s attention to me made me uncomfortable, I told my father I did not want to continue acting. As a child I did nothing but draw buildings.“

Do you still cultivate that passion?

(AS) “I am in love with the Bauhaus movement and minimalist aesthetics. Less is more, how you say. In fact, the house of my dreams is linear, with all-glass walls, developed on a single level. Exactly like the one designed by Stefan in The Aftermath.”

Photos from Vera Anderson, David Appleby/Fox Searchlight for The Aftermath; Jonathan Olley / Ink Factory for The Little Drummer Girl; pap photo in NY. My digital scans and did my best with Google Translation.

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New article with People: Alexander Skarsgård Has No Problem Doing Nude Scenes: ‘The Crazier the Better’
[ETA - I added the digital scans from PEOPLE from the March 18, 2019 issue.]

Alex says, “I don’t enjoy playing a character who is purely a good guy or heroic. If it’s a super-dark character, you need to find some humanity. That’s what’s interesting.” Still, Skarsgård says in real life he’s nothing like that. “I’m not very intense!” he says with a laugh. When people meet me, they expect me to be like my characters, someone with weight and heaviness, which I am not at all. I think they can be disappointed. They expect a silent, strong type, and then I’m all [in a high-pitched, goofy voice], ‘Hello!’”

[he wanted to be an architect as a child before he got serious about acting.] His dad is veteran actor Stellan Skarsgård, 67; three of his brothers are actors, Gustaf (Vikings), 38, Bill (It), 28, and Valter (Black Lake), 23, and his sister Eija, 27, former model. Plus ‘someone told me architecture was all about calculations and math, so that dissuaded me, he say says.

From the original online article:

How very Swedish! The Golden Globe winning star Alexander Skarsgard says he has no problem with nudity or sex scenes onscreen

By Gillian Telling March 06, 2019 03:11 PM

Swedish star Alexander Skarsgård, 42, is the first to acknowledge that he plays a lot of troubled, brooding bad boy characters—who also happen to take their shirts off a lot.

But the star of the new World War II drama The Aftermath (also starring Keira Knightley, out March 15) shrugs when he’s asked if he’s ever had an issue with showing off his (fine, they’re incredible) abs.

“Of course not,” he tells PEOPLE. “I spent seven years on True Blood, and there was a lot of graphic nudity on that show.”


There was also a lot of crazy sex scenes, which he says he also had no problem with.

“The crazier the better,” he says. “I loved it. I really embraced it. It was a lot of fun.”

In fact, it was rumored that the single Skarsgård, who’s the son of actor Stellan and older brother to actors Bill (It) and Gustav (Vikings) was once in the running to play Christian Grey in the 50 Shades of Grey adaptation.

“I met the producers very early on but I never read the script or auditioned for it,” he says. “I never got that far. I think the author had a favorite, someone that she wanted to play that role.”

Still, things have never been busier in Skarsgård’s career. After breaking out in the U.S. with the 2008 HBO series Generation Kill, he landed the role of villainous vampire Eric Northman on True Blood before taking on another TV villain—domestic abuser Perry Wright in Big Little Lies, for which he won a Golden Globe.



“Swedes are quite uncomfortable talking about our accolades or accomplishments and ourselves in a way,” he says of his big win. “I get very uncomfortable doing that, hence not knowing what to do with the Golden Globe. I was like ‘Argh, this is awkward and embarrassing.’

Now, right after his acclaimed role in The Little Drummer Girl, he’s starring in two films at the same time: The Hummingbird Project, and The Aftermath, in which he plays a German widower who has an affair with Keira Knightley.

“Keira is phenomenal to work with,” he says. “She’s incredibly talented obviously, but also very open and generous and she doesn’t take herself too seriously. She has a very funny, self-deprecating sense of humor which I really enjoy. No big ego—she cares more about the relationship in the film than her own performance.”

Next he’ll star in the summer comedy The Long Shot, opposite Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen.

“I’m looking forward to a little bit of rest,” he says about taking a break from his current crazy schedule. “I grew up in a city so I like city life. I love going to rock clubs, bars, hanging out. But there are weekends when you don’t want that intensity…so I love exploring, going on long hikes or sailing trips, being out in nature. But essentially I’m a city boy.”

To read more about Alexander Skarsgård, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on stands Friday.

Sources: People.com, photo: Munawar Hosain @alexanderskarsgarded; HBO for True Blood and Jonathan Olley/WarnerBrothers for The Legend of Tarzan.

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March 6, 2019 – 108 notes / March 6, 2019

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NEW/old photo of Alexander Skarsgård and a new article in Donna magazine (Germany, dated May 2019)!
[photo caption] After two years, Alexander Skarsgård now has a permanent residence in New York. Before that, he moved from location to location.

A Picture of a Man

Alexander Skarsgård, 42, is so much more than just the attractive Swede. Luckily, Hollywood has also understood that now

Text: Nina Berendonk

Let’s admit it: we women can be as emancipated and cool as we want. But with some things, men can still make us weak in the knees. With a strong chin and broad shoulders, for example; with steel-blue eyes, a tall, slender figure and - as little politically correct as that may be - with a well-cut uniform. Better yet: a sailor suit.

And if all of this comes together? Then you have Alexander Skarsgård. It is downright outrageous how much the 42-year-old fulfills the cliché of good-looking Swede. Consequently after his military service with the navy, he also modeled and appeared in Germany in 2009 for the first time as a vampire Eric Northman in the US series “True Blood”. Alexander Skarsgård at that time remained very pale in every respect: his bloodsucker only acted profoundly nordic; Also, you couldn’t get the sound that his fangs made when extending, out of your head.

All the better was the surprise when the Swede finally reappeared after appearances in Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia” and “Legend of Tarzan” 2017 in the series “Big Little Lies” - and really impressed there. Although the figure of an erotomanic-violent husband is neither sympathetic nor heroic. But how Alexander Skarsgård portrays this charismatic, yet so miserable narcissist, and that tension with a phalanx of fantastic actresses - Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Zoé Kravitz - is truly masterful.

This fits in with the story that Alexander Skarsgård, offspring of an actor’s clan, was already known in Sweden for children’s roles, but then put the job on ice from one day to the next for eight years. Because he found it unpleasant as a teenager to be stared at in the street and read about himself in the newspaper. The Stockholmer is certainly not averse to the admiration of others. But he seems to be fine without it.

This consistent attitude may also be the reason why he has not yet found the woman for starting a family: “I do not want to settle for someone I find just okay.” The attitude of not being so quick to please has certainly also helped him to get the “Emmy” and a “Golden Globe” for Best Supporting Actor in “Big Little Lies” - and now even more demanding, torn roles.

His newest is the one in “The Aftermath" (from 1 April onwards in the cinema), where he falls in love with the wife of a British lieutenant colonel as a widower in post-war Germany. That, too, is not without its problems. But Alexander Skarsgård can finally play a serious man, smooch the beautiful Keira Knightley - and we can melt away a bit.


Thank you so much for the text cleanup/translation by @littlebulletsucker! Danke schein!

Photo by Guy Aroch shot at the fabulous Beekman Hotel in NYC in 2016. My digital scans.

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April 6, 2019 – 5 notes / April 6, 2019

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Alexander Skarsgård is in the May 2019 issue of Woman & Home (South Africa)
Man of the Moment…
ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD

Best known for his role in TVs Big Little Lies, the hunky Swedish actor now stars opposite Keira Knightley in drama film The Aftermath

Alexander, 42, is single and lives between his homes in New York and Stockholm.

On where it all began… Despite several warnings from my dad [actor Stellan Skarsgård], I started acting when l was seven. At 13, I did a Swedish film called The Dog That Smiled that everyone loved, so I became well known in our town. The attention really got to me, though — l just wanted to play soccer and see friends — so I quit the industry for a while and joined the Swedish military. Years later, when I wanted to get into acting again, my dad said, “Okay, damn it, but listen to your heart.” He told me I should only commit to being an actor if l really love it — I do.

On his famous dad… He’s one of my best friends. So many people have problems with their fathers, but I’m lucky to have a cool, supportive man in my life. Even though he worked a lot while we were growing up [Alexander is the oldest of eight children], he always made sure we knew how much he cared about us.

On his dark role in Big Little Lies… I felt I had to hide for months after the show aired, because I was probably the most hated man on TV. When you shoot those physical and emotional scenes, it gets heavy and starts to affect you. It was important for me step away, see friends on weekends, recharge my batteries…

On the rise of movie streaming… Last year, I did a Netflix film called Hold the Dark, and it was exciting to know that someone in Jakarta could watch it and, hopefully, enjoy it. It was available to be streamed and appreciated by viewers all over the world. Of course, it’s ideal if you can watch films on the big screen with a booming sound system, but unless it’s a big, tent- poIe-type action film, it’s difficult to get people off their couches to go to the cinema. In this day and age, all you really care about is that people see your movie.

On his role in The Aftermath… I play a German architect, Stefan, who’s very buttoned-up and constrained. He’s a complex person and his affair with Rachael [played by Keira Knightley] is visceral and intense. I’ve done alot of dark dramas, so I’d like to mixit up and try something a bit lighter. Maybe a slapstick comedy!

The Aftermath is out on 26 April. [in South Africa]

2008 - Alexander lands the role of Eric Northman in hit vampire series True Blood.

2016 - In The Legend of Tarzan he’s a force to be reckoned with, playing the lord of the jungle himself.

2017 - His portrayal of Perry Wright in Big Little Lies earns him Emmy and Golden Globe awards.

2018 - He stars opposite Jeffrey Wright in Netflix’s gripping thriller movie Hold the Dark.

❤️Loves & Hates❌

❤️Berlin - The city has great galleries, cafés and bars, and some of the best architecture in the world.

❤️Going tech-free - Being without a cell phone or WiFi connection is good for me. I need to disappear once and a while.

❌ Failure - While I know it can be a good thing, and we should learn from it, it scares me.

❌ Double standards - It’s insane that gender equality is still an issue in this day and age.
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From Harper's Bazaar Brasil, interview done last weekend:

New interview with Alexander Skarsgård and Harper’s Bazaar Brazil!
by Miriam Spritzer

ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD REVEALS THAT HE HAS PLANS TO DIRECT MOVIES

At the film’s premiere we talked to Alexander about his participation in the Tribeca Film Festival and his future plans to work as a director.

(HB) You have worked in many international and independent films. How is it for you today to attend the Tribeca Film Festival?
(Alex) It’s very meaningful to me. It’s my favorite movie festival. I live in New York, so I can walk here. It’s very good, I feel at home.

Have you ever been to the festival before?
(Alex) In fact, I already participated fifteen years ago with a short film that I directed. [Note: Att döda ett barn] Tribeca was the first festival that we were accepted. It was the first and so far the only film that I directed. I still lived in Sweden at that time, and was starting to work as an actor, I was unknown. Me and my friend, who helped in the movie, were very excited to travel to New York bringing our short film. The curators and festival staff were great with us. I love this festival, Tribeca has a special meaning for me.

(HB) Are you thinking of moving further towards the direction?
(Alex) I directed only an eight-minute movie a thousand years ago. At that time I wanted to direct more, I was focused on that for a second. And there began to appear many works as an actor and I ended up following this wave. I do not know, it would be interesting to have this experience again. That question made me wonder, what happened to my directorial career? I do not know what happened. Should I have been a director all this time? (laughs)

(HB) I hope you have not created an existential crisis, after all you are having an incredible career as an actor.
(Alex) I’m having a really cool time in my career, there are lots of things coming up for me to play and I’m enjoying it. But of course, if I find some project, read some script that I feel I should direct, which is a story I want to tell, I’ll probably try. I have not given up on that director side yet.

Thanks to AS on Delish for the find & translation. Photo credited to Getty and taken at the Tribeca Artists Dinner hosted by Chanel on April 29, 2019.

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A Gorgeous Portrait Taken by Griffin Lipson at the
Big Little Lies Season 2 Premiere

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