I have come to think Alex's use of the "Stellan Family Privacy Rule" is a bit of a contrivance on his part. It seems the "only" time he ever uses it is to avoid questions about the Clinger. He doesn't have any problems being photographed with family, talking about family (granny likes to drink), and his family doesn't have problems being photographed together. Perhaps it's just because he and Beige are both famous and he's being doubly private in this regard, I don't know (or care). I just know what I see, and it looks like Papa Skars was no hermit and had pictures taken with his then-wife and kids plenty of times. Gustaf refers to and gets pictures taken with his gf as well as with the family, so he apparently is unaware of the Stellan Family Privacy Rule. In any event, maybe that's why it always rings a bit false with me. And, I do appreciate that, overall, the family seems very good at trying to keep family life private as possible.
("She cried every day and Alex comforted her") Work it, girlie!!!
Agree with this - and honestly, as the reporter notes (before every stan shipping this relationship makes this their mantra) that the comment about "family" was "later". Not in reference to KB. So the fact that reporter posited this as "rumored" meant he didn't give an inch on this. Agree that it is surprising he doesn't comment on her in a work sense or something and leave it alone and move on already. As you note, his brothers are seen with their girlfriends and it all goes just fine. I just read an article Gurra did and he mentioned he lives with his girlfriend (I wonder if he got demerits and had to pay a Skarsgard family fine in the naughty jar). He surely has not come to grips with where he wants this one to sit in his archive five years from now so he seems to shut her out of his comments hoping it will never be attached in some way, as if we could all forget this at some later date when they break up (because they will, it's the norm in Hollywood). The crying every day part...sigh. That must have been delightful. I've always thought she played the whole fragile creature who needs to be saved card, that just underlines it. And having seen the original movie, which this seems to follow closely at least in the scripting, Rhys is the one that is really making her cry.
But then again, Lurie has to push that romance hard or he has no sales tool for his movie. "Love story" - gah.
Oh well, bring on the Interview interview!
! I couldn't have said this better myself 
. If you're "in love", which correct me if I'm wrong, people usually are when dating, people can see it in your facial expressions or body language. But this reaction... When asked about the relationship, he 
. So yeah, why not just say, "No comment" 
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