Stellan and Family Feb. 2012-2013

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posted by ohva
3/1/2012

Monday, February 27, 2012

The Jeremy Lin Movie: Skarsgård joins cast as 'inspiring Harvard professor'

The film is due in theaters in late April

williampennmanship.blogspot.com/2012/02/jeremy-lin-movie-skarsgard-joins-cast.html



New York--Swedish-born actor Stellan Skarsgård who has appeared in countless Hollywood films over his long career, has officially signed on to the cast of the Jeremy Lin movie due out in mid spring. Skarsgård will play Dr. Devlin Eklund, a Harvard English professor that, according to questionable sources, convinced Lin to join the basketball team after seeing the prolific student throw a piece of paper into a trash bin from the back of a classroom. "It will be a lot like my role in Good Will Hunting," explained Skarsgård, referring to the 1997 Matt Damon film. "Instead of M.I.T., I'm now at Harvard dealing with letters instead of numbers, and I see this kid, one of my students, make an amazing 'shot' into the waste paper basket. Right then and there I know this kid will go to the NBA someday." Skarsgård is joining Robin Williams, who signed last week to play Lin's mentor, and Ben Affleck, who will play Jeremy Lin. Lin has disassociated himself from the project saying, "That's not at all how the story went down." Legal issues may force multiple changes to the film: Jeramee Lynn, Haverford College (PA), New York Nicks, and, possibly, A.B.A. instead of N.B.A.

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posted by ohva
3/11/2012








fuzzyrush:

Eija Skarsgard.

(sister of Alexander Skarsgard. Hey genetics, I loathe thee.)

skarsgard#model
2 years ago

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posted by ohva
4/5/2912

Skarsgård is ready for big new movie



www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/film/article14636042.ab

Google Translate:


April 5, 2012

Reveals that "The girl with the dragon tattoo" getting sequels

Here is Stellan Skarsgård's new blockbuster movie:

Make "The railway man" with Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.

- There are wonderful actors, he says.

He starred opposite Colin Firth, 51, in the hit film "Mamma Mia".

Nicole Kidman, 44, met him in Lars von Trier's "Dogville".

Now, Stellan Skarsgard, 60, a chance to play against them both.

He is ready for the new blockbuster "The railway man."

Together with Colin Firth film he plays a prisoner of war during World War II forced to build the railway between Bangkok and Rangoon.

- It is based on a true story and it cuts between these people's past and back to when they were prisoners of war under the Japanese. It's about people who can not get over the trauma they have gone through, says Stellan Skarsgard.

Films in Scotland
In three weeks he will travel to Scotland to film. The film is directed by Jonathan Teplitzky who last made "The Burning Man".

- I play in the present, or in the 1980s. And then we played by two young actors who play during the war, he says.

He looks forward to shoot with Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth.

- It will be fun. They are great both of them, there are wonderful actors, he says.

Unclear whether Fincher directs sequels

April 25 also released "The girl with the dragon tattoo" on DVD. Stellan Skarsgard made the role of a psychopath Martin Vanger who die in the end.

- I think it's one of last year's best American films. He is an amazing director Fincher, he says.

Stellan Skarsgard think it will be a sequel.

- This've recorded more than $ 100 million in the U.S. so there should be a desire in them to make even more money. Do they think they can make money on the second and third, they do them, he says.

If there is a David Fincher who directs is also unclear.

- They probably ment not decided who will do it, that's a lot of economic and artistic decisions to be made. But I know that it is written on it, he says.

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posted by ohva
4/5/2012

Stellan Skarsgård: 'I'm a castrated bull'

www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/apr/05/stellan-skarsgard-im-a-castrated-bull

Ryan Gilbey
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 5 April 2012 15.07 E

The actor on why he's really known as a calming influence on film sets



Stellan Skarsgard: 'I never liked Ingmar Bergman'.
Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Hi Stellan, where are you? I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

Congratulations! Has it expressed a desire yet to go into acting?
[laughing] Oh God, no, not yet.

How do you feel about so many of your children (1) becoming actors?
Since they're all talented I'm fine with it. It would've been terrible if they'd had a love for this profession and couldn't act. They've grown up knowing it's hard work but they've also seen how much I enjoy it.

A character on The Fast Show called Competitive Dad got his kicks thrashing his children at games. Sound familiar?
I've already lost to mine! I should have pressed them down much earlier in life. Now they're too talented, good-looking and smart.

In David Fincher's version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, you play the sinister Martin. I like how civilised you make him.
He's nice, isn't he?

Was that the key to playing him?
Even the most despicable person is still a human being. Martin is a psychopath but he has also been destroyed by growing up with a serial-killer father. Psychopaths are so good at imitating feelings. They can fool their own psychiatrists.

How do you rate David Fincher?
Together with Lars Von Trier (2), he is the most skilled director I've worked with (3). Shooting 40 takes suits me because then I can fuck up 39 times.

It's a lovely torture chamber you've got in the film. Did you take any of that equipment home?
I don't do much torturing at home, so I didn't have much use for it.

You could've given it to Lars.
That might come in handy for our next film.

It's called The Nymphomaniac (4), and yet you don't get to have sex in it.
That was a disappointment. Lars said: "My next film will be a porno and I want you to play the male lead. You will not get to fuck but you will show your dick in the end and it will be very floppy."

What's your relationship with Lars?
We're good friends. We can insult each other in a very pleasant way. We let our Tourette's free.

Did he really ask you to play the rape scene in Dogville in a rom-com style?
On the fifth take, he said: "Can you play it as a romantic comedy?" I was thinking of Hugh Grant, so I tried to make Hugh Grant into a rapist.

How does Lars compare with Ingmar Bergman? (5)
Bergman was hyper-intelligent but I never liked him as a person. He was not a good man. All directors are control freaks but he was extreme. He did things to people that were not kosher. He didn't destroy people to make them better actors: he destroyed them to utilise his power.

There's a site called Bait An Oscar that dreams up sure-fire award-winners. They've cast you as Bergman in a biopic called Magic Lantern.
That doesn't sound very radical. Sounds a bit dusty.

There's even a fake review: "Skarsgård gives a tremendous transformation as Ingmar Bergman. I didn't see him on screen, I saw Ingmar."
[laughs] That's very funny. I would have to wear a fake wart, because Bergman had a wart on his face for many years.

You're in the superhero extravaganza Avengers Assemble. Were you jealous of your co-stars' costumes?
Not at all. When they have all those fake muscles built in, they need these air-conditioning pumps going into the costumes so they don't die in the heat. In Albuquerque, they built the tops of skyscrapers in the desert and you stand there and pretend you're in New York.

What do you need to be a good actor?
An interest in human beings. Curiosity, playfulness, a certain patience.

You have a reputation as the nicest guy in movies.
My father would tell me: "Remember, no one's worth more than you, and no one's worth less than you." I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

Are you a calming influence on set?
I have the feeling that Lars uses me like they use those castrated bulls in Pamplona: they send in a couple of them to calm down the others. That's me: a castrated bull.

Footnotes
1. Eldest child Alexander (True Blood) can now be seen in Battleship. Then there's Gustaf, Sam, Bill and non-actors Eija, Valter and Ossian.
2. Von Trier directed Skarsgård in Breaking the Waves, The Kingdom II, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville and Melancholia, and said of him: "I shall probably always have him in mind, if there's a suitable part for him."
3. Including Steven Spielberg, Paul Schrader, Gus Van Sant and Ron Howard.
4. Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in this story of "a woman's erotic journey from birth to the age of 50." Not to be confused with Rochelle, Rochelle, a young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.
5. Bergman directed Skarsgård on television in L'école des Femmes and on stage in A Dream Play.

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posted by ohva
4/16/2012

Stellan Skarsgard is jealous of the sons of actor's success

www.kjendis.no/201...od/skuespiller/21116636/

Google translate




PROUD AND JEALOUS: Stellan Skarsgard has long had a name in Hollywood, and is both proud and jealous that his sons were now enjoying great success as actors. Photo: Adrian Øhrn Johansen / Dagbladet

- They've passed it already. Now I'm lying just behind and take it easy.

(Dagbladet): The Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard (60) has long had a place on Hollywood's starry sky, with successes like "Mamma Mia!", "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo."

And 60-year-old sons, Alexander (35), Gustav (31), Bill (21) and Valter (17), has also chosen the same profession as his father.

While Alexander Skarsgård has long since gained a place in film city, with the TV series "True Blood" and movies such as "Battleship" and "Straw Dogs" and also starred with his father in the film "Melancholia," makes little brothers it big back home in Sweden.


In dad's footsteps
Stellan Skarsgård has a total of seven children, and only Sam (29) and Eija (20) have chosen a different direction an actor profession. Together with his wife Megan Everett, Skarsgård has little Ossian (2), and in September will Skarsgård eight children my dad, when Everett gives birth to the couple's second child together.

The fact that so many of the children have chosen to follow in his father's footsteps, is perhaps not surprising, since the family has always followed with Skarsgard on film recordings, since the children were small.

But even if Stellan Skarsgard is proud of the sons of acting success, he admits that it makes him jealous.


- Proud but jealous
- They've passed it already. Now I'm lying just behind and take it easy, he said in an interview with Expressen.

- I am very proud, but also jealous. But it's not so much to do with.

Skarsgård has just finished a film version of Romeo and Juliet in Italy, and later in the summer he record "Nymphomaniac".


- He is so hot!
Oldest son Alexander Skarsgård is currently relevant to the film "Battleship" where he plays against, among others, Liam Neeson (59) and Rihanna (24).

And Skarsgård impresses with more than their acting skills.

For Rihanna recently revealed that the Swedish 35-year-old made her nervous, when they met at the filming of "Battleship".

- Oh my God, he is so hot! I was drooling over him every hour I saw of "True Blood" and suddenly he was on set with me, she says about Skarsgård in an interview with Company magazine, according to the Daily Mail.

- I said to myself that I had to remember to breathe and behave normally. So actually I played a play both on and off the set



Alexander Skarsgard: Have been Hollywood star and admired by girls around the world, including Rihanna. Photo: Stella Pictures



GUSTAF Skarsgard: Is the current in the upcoming movie "Kon Tiki". Photo: Stella Pictures



Bill Skarsgård: Has played in a number of Swedish films. Photo: Stella Pictures

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posted by Dane
4/17/2012

Came upon this article. I suppose the Norwegian article above is taken from this, but there's some additional info in this one. Valter got his first part since Arn, and apparently Bill was on True Blood?? Did I miss this last bit, or am I spending to much time on the Joel thread???

www.expressen.se/noje/film/stellan-skarsgard-nu-ar-jag-pa-efterkalken/

Slightly cleaned up google translate:

Stellan Skarsgard: I'm behind ...
He's a prospective father of eight, has secured Sweden's acting future with his sons, and is true to Stockholm despite the fact that he almost never make any movies in Sweden.

In a candid interview, Stellan Skarsgard why he is disappointed with the Oscar jury, celebrates costar Rooney Mara and getting to grips with what he really thinks about her sons who are about to conquer the world.

- I'm jealous. They have passed me, already, he says.

The film company wants to interview will be about six months old film "The girl with the dragon tattoo", which is released on DVD in the Nordic countries 25 April. So we're talking about it. But not at first.

Stellan is an effervescent happy after having been on the ultrasound and looked at child number eight, which is expected in early September.

- Everything looked great. I'm delighted, says Stellan.

The family has often had to go on the films, since the children were young. When Stellan recorded Marvel movie "Thor" was part of the family in place and "Melancholia" Stellan played against his son Alexander. When he was a few weeks traveling to Scotland to play in "The Railway Man" with Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth have his wife Megan Everett, 35, and son Ossian, almost three, come along.

- The family comes with, it's nice, explains Stellan.

It's good that you expand the clan further so that we get some more actors.

- Yes, exactly, says Stellan and laughs before he says:

- There are many now.

"Let's take it easy"
For kids it's just Sam, 29, and Eija, 20, who have chosen other careers other than acting profession. Alexander Skarsgard, 35, is being praised in Hollywood, brothers Gustav, 31, and Bill, 21, the fine criticism at home and now the younger brother Walter, 17, landed his first starring role in the movie "IRL".

- They have passed me already. Now I'm left behind and can take it easy, says Stellan.

But you must be so proud?

- Yes. And jealous. But there is not much to do about it.

To David Finchers Hollywood Version "The girl with the dragon tattoo" was not nominated for an Oscar is not possible to do much about. Apart from being annoyed, of course.

- It's a fantastic film and it's a fantastic job he has done, Fincher. I find it incredibly strange that the film was nominated or that Fincher was nominated as best director. It's very strange.

- There are too many films that are much better than The Artist. It's good and cute, but it's not the sharpest film from last year. But Oscar's works are so there. It is all of those films that manage to go home with so many Academy members as possible.

Were you surprised?

- Not surprised, but a little tired, he says, laughing.

"Very much police films"
Stellan Skarsgard has just completed a film version of Romeo and Juliet in Italy. Later this summer he will play in the controversial "nymphomaniac" by Danish director Lars von Trier. And in three weeks he will travel as told to Scotland for the next film.

- Then it looks as if I should make an American film in the autumn. But it is not been signed, so I can not speak about it now.
Nothing but foreign projects. The Swedish films are notable by their absence.

- I don't get many fun offers here. I get more from Denmark and Norway. In Sweden, we do a lot of police movies and there's not exactly a lot of meaty roles ther. The Danes are doing more films about human problems than we do in Sweden, and four of my best roles have been Norwegian.

Would you like to work more in Sweden?

- Yes, it would be fun to work at home. I've worked with von Trier at home. He is Danish, but the recording was in Trollhattan, anyway, he says, laughing.

Think Swedish filmmaker because you're too big for Sweden?

- I think not, because I get some offers. But then it is rather the opposite that they want me to play the villain in a low-budget thriller. And then they can not compete with the bovroller I'll be offered from the other side.

Stellan Skarsgard about ...
... father of eight:
"It's just as exciting and as fun, and they're calmer than it was the first time. Children can take up more space in your life than what they could from the beginning when we were going out to conquer the world."

... his co-star in "The girl with the dragon tattoo" - Rooney maeaerae:
"She is both intelligent, friendly and very good. She does such a fantastic portrait. It's rare to see U.S. $ one hundred million movie where the heroine has no vanity at all. Not doing anything to be liked. Not doing anything to be stylish. Without doing everything the opposite and therefore we love her. It would be fun to work with her again. "

... successor to "The girl ..."
"I will not be more because I'm dead. But they have the rights to all three stories, and possibly a fourth, too. If they think they earn enough money on this then they will definitely make the next also . And of course it has recorded over one hundred million dollars in the U.S., so where I think we have the answer ... "

... To play against Colin Firth again in "The Railway Man," a film about prisoners of war who were forced to build the "death railway" between Bangkok and Rangoon during World War II:
"It will be fun, he's a wonderful actress. And Nicole Kidman is also good. It is based on a true story and cuts between the characters past and back to when they were prisoners of war under the Japanese. They can not get over the trauma they have been through. Two younger actors play us in war and we are doing in the present. "

The clan

Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård.
Age: 35.
Made his first film role in "Ake and His World" in 1984 as an eight year old. I got her breakthrough in "Dog Trick" in 2005 but became internationally famous first American TV series "Generation Kill" and "True Blood" in 2008. Is up to date with "Battleship" where he plays the artist Rihanna. Was previously with actress Kate Bosworth and has recently paired with Swedish Alicia Wikander and Oscar winner Charlize Theron.

Gustaf Caspar Snake Skarsgård.
Age: 31.
Made his first film role as a nine year old in 1989 in "Cover Name Coq Rouge". Rose to prominence as bad kampratuppfostrare in "Evil" in 2003, the year he left the Theatre Academy. Is this year to date with the films "Autum Blood" with, among others godfather Peter Stormare and the Norwegian film "Kon-Tiki".

Samuel Christopher Ymer Skarsgard
Age: 28.
Sam has not invested in acting as a father and brothers. Instead, he has been at the Mys mom's footsteps and become a doctor. That said, he has stayed completely away from the silver screen. In the film "Jim and the Pirates Blom" he plays the son of - you guessed it - her own mother My.

Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård.
Age: 21.
Film debut in "Daddy Police" in 2000, was ten years old. Games against father Stellan and brothers Gustav and Walter in the movies about Arn. He has also appeared in "True Blood". Got her big break in 2010 with the films "The Wedding Date" and "Blue Skies". Playing the lead role in "Simon and the oaks" which was released last year. Is this year to date with "Anna Karenina", among others, Jude Law, Keira Knightley and Alicia Vika Weekender.

Lo Eija Skarsgård.
Age: 20.
Eija also stands in front of the camera, but as a model. Unlike her siblings, she has not appeared in any film.

Valter Skarsgård.
Age: 17.
Debuted in the short film "Killing Babies" in 2003 and the feature film "Details" in the same year, when he was eight. Games in 2008, against Gustavus and Stellan in "Arn: The Kingdom at Road end." Has just landed his first starring role in upcoming "IRL" to include Happy Jankell and Alba August.

Ossian Finn Skarsgård.
Age: Fills three at the end of April.
Ossian's only three years and have not yet had time to make its debut in the film world. But considering that his siblings made their debut when they were around eight years and the fact that he hangs out with some of the world's greatest actor takes it certainly will not be long until we see him in his first role.

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posted by davischristinem
4/17/2012

Dane wrote:
I sure did miss him on True Blood, maybe in one of the Eric flashback sequences???

This is actually from Sweden (expressen.se), the shorter version were Stellan talked about "jealousy" was Norwegian


That has to be a mistake about Bill on True Blood. I've never heard any mention of it before in all of the stuff I've read/seen about True Blood. I look over the actors in the credits after each episode, especially the smaller roles...and I've seen all of the episodes multiple times. I can't see how a Skarsgard would get by me! I wonder what Bill's IMBD page says? I'm going to go look...

Thanks for the article Dane!

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posted by davischristinem
4/17/2012

Bill's IMBd doesn't list it. I suppose I could be wrong and somehow I missed him on the show. If he was on True Blood, I'd love to know what season and episode it was! That would be awsumif he really was!

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posted by star collector
4/26/2012

From Vulture(NY Mag)--

Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Will Be Released in Two Parts

By Zach Dionne

Here comes a two-parter that'll be neither a cash-grabbing young-adult novel adaptation nor a rhyming Tarantino joint: Lars von Trier's Charlotte Gainsbourg–starring The Nymphomaniac will be comprised of two films. Producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen tells Screen Daily (via The Playlist) that the two-pronged effort will be shot and edited simultaneously, with hopes for a bow at Cannes in 2013. As previously reported, Nympho (that works as an abbreviated title, right?) details "the erotic life of a woman from the age of zero to the age of 50" (what?) and will probably be released with both a hardcore and not-so-hardcore version. It may be a tough film not to be intrigued by, no matter what dumb and/or horrible and/or ridiculous things von Trier says while promoting it.

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posted by ohva
4/27/2012

Stellan Skarsgard, Hiroyuki Sanada Join Hollywood Stars in 'The Railway Man'

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stellan-skarsgard-hiroyuki-sanada-colin-firth-nicole-kidman-railway-man-317479


2:37 AM PDT 4/27/2012 by Stuart Kemp



Jonathan Teplitzky’s epic true story is based on Eric Lomax’s bestseller and stars the Oscar winners Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.

LONDON – Stellan Skarsgard and Hiroyuki Sanada have signed to join the cast of Jonathan Teplitzky’s The Railway Man, which already boasts Oscar winners Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.

Jeremy Irvine also stars in the big screen adaptation of Eric Lomax’s best-selling book detailing the epic true story of a war hero and the woman who matched his courage to reclaim the man she loved.
Frank Cottrell Boyce and producer Andy Paterson adapted Lomax’s book and shooting is scheduled to begin April 30 in Scotland before moving to Thailand and then Queensland, Australia.

The producers are Paterson (Girl With A Pearl Earring), Chris Brown (The Proposition) and Bill Curbishley (Quadrophenia). Executive producers are Claudia Blümhuber and Ian Hutchinson from Silver Reel, Zygi Kamasa for Lionsgate UK, Anand Tucker and Daria Jovicic.

The project is set up as an Australia/U.K. co-production between Pictures in Paradise and Archer Street, backed by Screen Australia in association with Silver Reel, Screen Queensland, Creative Scotland and Lionsgate UK.

Lionsgate UK will release the film in the U.K. and Transmission will handle Australia and New Zealand.

Lionsgate International is handling international sales on the film.

The movie has been pre-sold to territories including France (Metropolitan), Benelux (E One), Russia (West), Greece (Spentzos), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Latin America (Gussi), Scandinavia (Mislabel), and Poland (Forum).

Lionsgate UK and CAA are handling U.S. rights for the film.

Skarsgard’s films include Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Mamma Mia!, Pirates of the Caribbean, and several films with Lars von Trier, such as Melancholia and Dogville.

One of Japan’s biggest stars, Sanada will next be seen starring opposite Keanu Reeves in Universal Pictures’ $200 million epic 47 Ronin.

Steven Spielberg’s War Horse marked Irvine’s first leading role, and he recently completed the leading role of Pip in Mike Newell’s Great Expectations. He will next be seen opposite Dakota Fanning in Ol Parker’s Now is Good.

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posted by ohva
4/27/2012

www.justjared.com/...edinburgh-photo-call-09/


27 April 2012 at 7:57 AM
Nicole Kidman: 'The Railway Man' Edinburgh Photo Call!

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posted by ohva
5/4/2012

Seeking out grit is the Skarsgard way

www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/seeking-out-grit-is-the-skarsgard-way-20120504-1y42z.html

May 5, 2012
Karl Quinn



Stellan Skarsgard stars in Norwegian film King of Devil's Island - he also partially bankrolled the production.


Read more: www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/seeking-out-grit-is-the-skarsgard-way-20120504-1y42z.html#ixzz1tuVe62K9

MY FIRST question for Stellan Skarsgard is a simple bit of housekeeping - how do you pronounce the surname - but the way the 61-year-old Swede answers speaks volumes about what kind of movie star he is. ''In Sweden it's Skars-gord, but usually people say Skars-guard,'' he says. ''Anything is fine. You can call me arsehole if you like.''

Skarsgard has made 90 films to date, so presumably arsehole is not an epithet he attracts all that often. When he talks about working with David Fincher on the American's remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, you get the sense of a man not given to standing on ceremony or demanding special treatment.

''He's fantastic, he manages to get budgets of $100 million - and he uses all that money just to buy time,'' he says. ''Everything ends up on the screen. There's no huge trailers or any fancy stuff going on.''

Skarsgard's latest foray into big-budget Hollywood is in The Avengers, the Marvel superhero flick packing them in at the multiplexes. It's his second go round after Thor, and it's been a surprisingly enjoyable experience, he says.

''I only did Thor because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.''

And unlike the big studios that ''don't care'' about stories, he says, marvel ''is run by really passionate comic-book guys''.

Budget aside, much the same could be said of King of Devil's Island, the excellent Norwegian escape drama - based on a true story - in which his fair-sized part was matched by his fair-sized contribution to the budget.

''I can contribute to getting small films made because when you go to a banker they see my films have made a billion dollars in the last couple of years. It's not thanks to me, but they don't understand that, so they say, 'Oh this guy makes a lot of money. Let's invest in this shitty little film.'''
Marius Holst's film may be small, but it's far from shitty. Set in 1915, it tells the tale of life inside a brutally run boys' home called Bastoy, on a Norwegian island perpetually blanketed in snow. (The film was shot in Estonia and conditions were every bit as miserable as they look, Skarsgard says, ''especially for the boys because the barracks were built without insulation''.)

When the deprivations and the hypocrisy of Skarsgard's governor in the face of the sexual abuse of a boy by a warder become too much, the inmates rebel, led by Olav (Trond Nilssen) and Erling (Benjamin Helstad). Their eventual flight across a frozen fjord makes for one of the most tense and moving scenes in recent cinema.

Working with non-actors who knew something of the life of a Bastoy boy was, Skarsgard insists, the only way to elevate the film.

''When you work with these kids you feel the hard protective shield they put up … and at the same time you can see in their eyes the vulnerable child behind it. That is not something the well-adapted young actor can play,'' he says.

It was a risk, of course. ''Some of them could have left after two days and been found in a ditch, full of drugs. But something happened when they felt there were not only demands on them but also trust in them … And that made them grow up in a way.''

Not all of them, he adds quietly. But certainly Nilssen, who won Norway's best supporting actor award for his role (the film was voted best picture) and is on his way to becoming an established actor.

''He'd had a very troubled childhood and youth. He'd never seen a camera before. He didn't believe in himself, was very nervous in the beginning. But once he got it, he was doing something fantastic.

''He said after the shoot, 'You know, this is the first thing in my life that I ever completed.' That's a frightening thought but it's also something amazing.''

King of Devil's Island is out now.

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posted by ohva
5/8/2012

A nice little clip from Stellan, being interviewed by Charlie Rose. It doesn't have embed options.

www.charlierose.com/view/clip/12345

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posted by davischristinem
5/8/2012

ohva wrote:
A nice little clip from Stellan, being interviewed by Charlie Rose. It doesn't have embed options.

www.charlierose.com/view/clip/12345


That was an interesting interview with Stellan! He said a lot of things I've never heard come out of him before concerning what he does for a living. Kudos to Charlie Rose, for asking the questions that brought it all forth. I think the ability of the interviewer makes all the difference in the world.interview


Thanks Ohva!

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posted by ohva
5/16/2012

Happy Jankell, Valter Skarsgård and Alba August: People see only the last n

www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/film/article14715929.ab



THE KNOWN PARENTS
Happy Jankell, Valter Skarsgård and Alba August currently playing in the movie "IRL". "They are the perfect mix of professional and pristine actor," says director Erik Leijonborg.





April 25, 2012

Google Translate

Parents already belongs to an actor little - now the kids movie together

Skarsgard, Jankell and August.

Celebrity children attend their parents' footsteps but are struggling to create their own first impressions.

- The first thing they see is my last name, says Valter Skarsgård.

Elijah live in darkness, everywhere he is hated and bullied. Then he runs into an online game where he is an invincible warrior. Along with the beautiful Scarlet conquers him the digital world. Everything goes well until the Scarlet want to meet in real life.

Where we dive into the filming of "IRL". Sergel Square in Stockholm bathed in sunshine and everyday bustle when Elias, played by Valter Skarsgård, 17, steps out from the Central Station. Passers-by stop to look curiously when he's looking for Scarlet.

My father Stellan became a teen idol in "Bombi Bitt and Me" the age of 17 and has long been a Hollywood veteran. His brother Alexander has been recognized by the U.S. television series "True Blood" Bill's film "The Wedding Date" was Sweden's Oscar Grant last year. With the last name Valter Skarsgård is used to attention. He is the youngest of a large number of sons of actor Stellan and have grown up in big films.

"It is always seen"
- It has been difficult to know that you are always so viewed, he said. First day of school, everyone knew who I was. Of course its a shame not to make your own first impressions of the people, the first thing they see is my last name, says Valter.

In the United States becomes a celebrity more significantly.

- Where are the paparazzi taking pictures in the street. It can be hard when they do not give themselves when they are in and follow. My brothers and sisters just ignore them.

Friends previously
In the "IRL" he plays his first starring role on Happy Jankell and Alba August, both 18 years old. Happy has made several films, including "A thousand times stronger" from 2010. Alba August was in "A Song for Martin" was seven.

The girls have known each other several years of evening classes in musical theater, Valter they came to know during the test filmningarna. Already, they have a warm chemistry that can not be mistaken. In between the scenes hug them and dance with each other over the black and white plates.

- I like them very much. We have a wonderful time together, says Valter.

Director Erik Leijonborg ("A Thousand Brothers") lavishes praise on his actors.

- They are the perfect mix of professional and pristine actor, he says.

Roy support
For Alba is the mother Pernilla August a great support when she needs help with acting.

- While it may be tough to always be related to their parents. It is always a daughter, not Alba, she says.

Happy have followed dad Thorsten Flinck with acting and mother Annika Jankell with the dance.

- In the ballet, I am a thousand times better than her, she says. To inspire is the main characteristic of a parent can have. It has been my parents managed to do.


Will get a new Skarsgard Brother
Name: Valter Skarsgård. Age: 17. Occupation: Student. Family: Father, Stellan, My mother, sisters and brothers Alexander, Gustaf, Sam, Bill and big sister Eija, Ossian, and yet another on the way. Roles in the selection: "Arn - The Kingdom at Road End" (2008), "Details" (2003). Future Plan: To Valter Skarsgård are two choices: acting or music. Electric guitar is at home waiting. Role model: "Heath Ledger was crazy good in Dark Knight. Robert Downey Jr.. is also a good actor. "


Want to become a volunteer at the orphanage
Name: Happy Jankell. Age: 18. Occupation: Student. Family: Father Thorsten Flinck, mother and sister Annika Jankell Felice. Roles in the selection: "A thousand times more powerful" (2010), "The New Man" (2007). Future Plan: Happy Jankell graduates this summer. "I want to be a volunteer in an orphanage, learn French and interrailing throughout the world." Idol, "I love Kate Winslet! She is natural and has such power. Ezra Miller, 'We need to talk about Kevin' is awesome and so cool. "


Made his first film, 2001
Name: Alba August. Age: 18. Occupation: Student. Family: Father Bille, Roy's mother, older sister Asta, half-siblings Melina, Anders and Adam.Roller a selection: Upcoming "Confidential unit" (2012), "A Song for Martin" (2001). Future Plan: Alba August graduates and want to Copenhagen. "I have relatives in Denmark, it would be cool to film