Alexander Skarsgård XVI

[Zola24]

Thanks to all who posted videos, pictures and interviews.

I just saw this from the other day. If it's already been posted, I apologize:

Question: Any scoop on True Blood Season 6? —Soso

Ausiello: I carved a few hours out of my holiday weekend to watch the first two episodes, and here are a few highlights: There’s a pivotal death, a threesome, a Hoyt shout-out, all kinds of fancy new anti-vampire weaponry and a horrifying glimpse into the future that may or may not foreshadow this. Also, if you’ve been dying to know what Friday Night Lights‘ Jurnee Smollett-Bell will be up to this season, I can now confirm that she will be playing an activist with the Vampire Unity Society (V.U.S.) by the name of Nicole who sets her sights on

Spoiler

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tvline.com/2013/05/28/sons-of-anarchy-spoilers-bridget-regan-season-6-ask-ausiello/#more-436206

Spoiler

Hiya Vamp Tku. I'm glad I'm not the only one although as I don't actually watch the show, (only the edited highlights later), I'm totally confused as HBO seem to have gone from 'nothing' to a slow drip-feed of spoilers? I just hope that the season is outstanding as the level of expectation seems to be building. It will be if Alex/Eric features prominently

Two new HQ promo pics of Alex in The East:

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(Source: Collider.com via colliderfrosty twitter)

/collider.com/the-east-images-alexander-skarsgard/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Thank you again for all the great photo posting

OMG!! He is so hot and sexy in these pics 'drool'faint'

Hah, that's SexySkars for you One hot mofo whether he's suited and booted at the premiere, just hanging in the grounds of The Four Seasons, sweaty and duffed-up in the gym, or an eco-terrorist in The East

 

[BuckeyeChicago]

Thanks to all who posted videos, pictures and interviews.

I just saw this from the other day. If it's already been posted, I apologize:

Question: Any scoop on True Blood Season 6? —Soso

Ausiello: I carved a few hours out of my holiday weekend to watch the first two episodes, and here are a few highlights: There’s a pivotal death, a threesome, a Hoyt shout-out, all kinds of fancy new anti-vampire weaponry and a horrifying glimpse into the future that may or may not foreshadow this. Also, if you’ve been dying to know what Friday Night Lights‘ Jurnee Smollett-Bell will be up to this season, I can now confirm that she will be playing an activist with the Vampire Unity Society (V.U.S.) by the name of Nicole who sets her sights on

Spoiler

.

http://tvline.com/2013/05/28/sons-o...dget-regan-season-6-ask-ausiello/#more-436206

Spoiler

Speculation on many Tumblr sites is that it's either Luna or Nora.

Two new HQ promo pics of Alex in The East:



(Source: Collider.com via colliderfrosty twitter)

http://collider.com/the-east-images-alexander-skarsgard/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

That top one, his eyes.

Hiya Vamp Tku. I'm glad I'm not the only one although as I don't actually watch the show, (only the edited highlights later), I'm totally confused as HBO seem to have gone from 'nothing' to a slow drip-feed of spoilers? I just hope that the season is outstanding as the level of expectation seems to be building. It will be if Alex/Eric features prominently

Thank you again for all the great photo posting

Hah, that's SexySkars for you One hot mofo whether he's suited and booted at the premiere, just hanging in the grounds of The Four Seasons, sweaty and duffed-up in the gym, or an eco-terrorist in The East

That's how they've been doing it the last few seasons, hold everything very tight and then start releasing teasers and spoilers about a month away from premiere.

Another interview, there are so many now, I'm losing track of all of them.

Alexander Skarsgård on ‘The East,’ His Calvin Klein Billboard, & Why He Quit Acting
by Joshua Sperling

With three new films in theaters and a Calvin Klein billboard the size of a dinosaur above Houston Street, Alexander Skarsgård seems to be everywhere. This is a good thing. For not only does the thirty-six year old actor choose challenging roles in films we actually want to see, he brings an intensity––alternately stubborn and vulnerable––to each character as if he were reincarnating himself anew, and on a tight shooting schedule. First, as a doting step-father in the Henry James adaptation What Maisie Knew, then as a grief-stricken Iraq veteran in Henry Alex Rubin’s networked-drama Disconnect, and most recently as a charismatic ringleader in Brit Marling’s and Zal Batmanglij’s eco-terrorist thriller, The East. It’s on the occasion of The East’s release that I sit down with Swedish actor to see how he’s responding to his omnipresence, his exhausting work schedule, and his experience playing a longhaired anarchist....

Did they point you in any directions to prepare for the role?
The thing is, I didn’t have time to go on the road or train hop or anything. So while I was shooting Maisie or Disconnect, in my trailer or my hotel room I was reading books, going online, watching documentaries. I was very inspired by this photographer Mike Brodie. Have you heard of him? He’s amazing.

Yeah I know his work. He was one of them, right? He wasn’t an outsider to that community.
Exactly. He was train hopping for many years and just took pictures of his friends. Some of them feel kind of like Ryan McGinley, but so gritty and basically just taking pictures of his girlfriend and his buddies. And he’s not part of the art scene at all. He lives in Oakland now as a mechanic, but those images were so inspiring, because it felt like they captured that world, the story we were trying to tell of those people in The East. So just visually, that was a great starting point for me.

His photographs feel really authentic.
He had an exhibition in LA a month ago and I bought one of his prints. I have it in my house to remind me of the experience of working on The East...

http://bullettmedia.com/article/alexander-skarsgard-on-the-east-his-calvin-klein-billboard-why-he-quit-acting/

 

[RedTopsy]

Hah, that's SexySkars for you One hot mofo whether he's suited and booted at the premiere, just hanging in the grounds of The Four Seasons, sweaty and duffed-up in the gym, or an eco-terrorist in The East

On the subject of sexy Alex:
These photos are for ever among my favourite ones, but they are older.
There has been many photos posted recently but it can´t be too many of them I hope (at least not for me)
The photos are like this for me:

Photo: Chris Maluszynski /Moment Agency

 

[BuckeyeChicago]

On the subject of sexy Alex:
These photos are for ever among my favourite ones, but they are older.
There has been many photos posted recently but it can´t be too many of them I hope (at least not for me)
The photos are like this for me:

Photo: Chris Maluszynski /Moment Agency

Taken during Straw Dogs filming, if I recall correctly. Still probably my favorite photoshoot of his.

Ellen will also be on Conan, she's on Monday:

"Ellen Page
Ellen Page stars in the thriller, "The East." It would make for a great triple feature with "Southland Tales" and "North by Northwest.""

And George RR Martin will also be on June 5, so I'd just be drooling over Alex and then nerding out:

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard goes from Viking vampire in "True Blood" to eco-anarchist in "The East." One has sharp fangs, the other wear hemp pants. Guess which is which?

George R. R. Martin
We're dying for "Game of Thrones,"author George R.R. Martin to drop some spoilers, but he's keeping mum. Just blink once for Jon Snow is a secret Targaryen, and blink twice for Jon Snow is a secret Baratheon.

http://teamcoco.com/schedule/2013-06-03

 

[BuckeyeChicago]

Review: 'The East' a complex, provocative morality tale
With its sophisticated themes and betrayals, this movie turns corporate malfeasance into a spy game that is entertaining without being dumbed down....
On the relevancy scale, "The East" hits virtually all the country's current hot buttons, from toxic spills to big pharm. To condemn only the big guns would have been the easier and more typical route. Instead, as the stakes rise, everyone's motives are examined. The dialogue grows more pointed as the debate sifts through the ethics of radical engagement with nearly as much fierceness as its scathing takedown of profiteers.

The excellent cast members handle their various subversive sides with biting precision: Alexander Skarsgard and Ellen Page are the leading true believers Benji and Izzy, Patricia Clarkson has a nifty, nasty turn as the private intelligence corps' iron lady, and Brit Marling is in the role of main attraction...Izzy is the embodiment of the true fanatic, and Page takes a darker cut at disenchantment than she did in "Juno," her Oscar-nominated turn as a cynical pregnant teen. Like the rest, Izzy knows what it takes to move effortlessly in polite society, as Sarah soon discovers when the first "jam," as their disruptions are called, requires they don tuxes and designer gowns.

As Benji and Sarah, Skarsgard and Marling are kinetic in their instant attraction — smart enough to be wary as they circle each other. It is nice to see a romance fueled by intellect as well as looks, which brings more nuance to the old "will love ***** ambition/obsession" question...

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-the-east-review-20130531,0,4341418.story


Movie Review
Falling for the Anarchy She Was Sent to Fight
‘The East,’ Written by Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling

Back home in Washington, Jane has a scruffy, sensitive, bland boyfriend. Out in the woods, she falls under the spell of Benji (Alexander Skarsgard), who is scruffy, sensitive and dangerous. While the East, being a group of anarchists, has no formal leader, Benji is clearly the alpha dog. His main lieutenants are an elfin zealot named Izzy (Ellen Page) and Doc (Toby Kebbell), a troubled former medical student. All of them come from relatively privileged backgrounds and have painful, intimate reasons for taking up the cause.

In general, “The East” is a bit more persuasive on the psychology of its characters than on the politics of their actions. Ms. Marling is a sympathetic presence, in part because her slack-jawed, glassy-eyed passivity is an effective mirror of the audience’s ambivalence. She is initially appalled by Benji and his followers — by their hygiene as much as by their self-righteousness — but gradually finds comfort in the rough simplicity of their thrifty, communal approach to life.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/movies/the-east-written-by-zal-batmanglij-and-brit-marling.html?ref=arts

By Peter Travers
May 30, 2013

Marling mesmerizes as Sarah Moss, an ex-F.B.I. operative now working undercover for a private intelligence firm, run with ice-cold efficiency by Sharon (the sublime Patricia Clarkson). Her first assignment is to infiltrate the East, an eco-terrorist cell with an eye-for-an-eye approach to punishing environmental polluters. If you’re an oil exec with no compunction about oil spills, prepare for some surprises at home. For Sarah, it only takes a hoodie, a pair of Birkenstocks and a foray into dumpster diving (the food we throw out is often still fresh) to get her noticed by the East. But she meets resistance, especially from Izzy (Ellen Page), an activist who senses something not legit about this blonde who’s too cool for outlaw school. There is no leader in the cell, but first among equals is Benji (a magnetic Alexander Skarsgard), a walking contradiction of Jesus-Manson impulses. ..
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-east-20130530

 

[Zola24]

Speculation on many Tumblr sites is that it's either Luna or Nora.

That top one, his eyes.

That's how they've been doing it the last few seasons, hold everything very tight and then start releasing teasers and spoilers about a month away from premiere.

Another interview, there are so many now, I'm losing track of all of them.

Alexander Skarsgård on ‘The East,’ His Calvin Klein Billboard, & Why He Quit Acting
by Joshua Sperling

With three new films in theaters and a Calvin Klein billboard the size of a dinosaur above Houston Street, Alexander Skarsgård seems to be everywhere. This is a good thing. For not only does the thirty-six year old actor choose challenging roles in films we actually want to see, he brings an intensity––alternately stubborn and vulnerable––to each character as if he were reincarnating himself anew, and on a tight shooting schedule. First, as a doting step-father in the Henry James adaptation What Maisie Knew, then as a grief-stricken Iraq veteran in Henry Alex Rubin’s networked-drama Disconnect, and most recently as a charismatic ringleader in Brit Marling’s and Zal Batmanglij’s eco-terrorist thriller, The East. It’s on the occasion of The East’s release that I sit down with Swedish actor to see how he’s responding to his omnipresence, his exhausting work schedule, and his experience playing a longhaired anarchist....

Did they point you in any directions to prepare for the role?
The thing is, I didn’t have time to go on the road or train hop or anything. So while I was shooting Maisie or Disconnect, in my trailer or my hotel room I was reading books, going online, watching documentaries. I was very inspired by this photographer Mike Brodie. Have you heard of him? He’s amazing.

Yeah I know his work. He was one of them, right? He wasn’t an outsider to that community.
Exactly. He was train hopping for many years and just took pictures of his friends. Some of them feel kind of like Ryan McGinley, but so gritty and basically just taking pictures of his girlfriend and his buddies. And he’s not part of the art scene at all. He lives in Oakland now as a mechanic, but those images were so inspiring, because it felt like they captured that world, the story we were trying to tell of those people in The East. So just visually, that was a great starting point for me.

His photographs feel really authentic.
He had an exhibition in LA a month ago and I bought one of his prints. I have it in my house to remind me of the experience of working on The East...

bullettmedia.com/article/alexander-skarsgard-on-the-east-his-calvin-klein-billboard-why-he-quit-acting/"]bullettmedia.com/article/alexander-skarsgard-on-the-east-his-calvin-klein-billboard-why-he-quit-acting/

Yeah, those eyes, definite

Those reviews/interviews do seem confusing as they all seem to be full praise for Alex's wide ranging acting abilities and do not include the words 'True Blood hunk'. I am very pleased for him.

I thought the bullett interview was just perfect. I learnt something new about Alex and his preparation for The East and his sensitive, cultured personality has come to the fore.

Similarly, I thought the solo interview at The Four Seasons Hotel was very interesting. Just let the man speak

On the subject of sexy Alex:
These photos are for ever among my favourite ones, but they are older.
There has been many photos posted recently but it can´t be too many of them I hope (at least not for me)
The photos are like this for me: 'loveeyes'drool'faint'

Photo: Chris Maluszynski /Moment Agency

Oh RedTopsy, I have always luvd the Chris Maluszynski photoshoot. Gotta be in my top 3 although the Man of the World p/s is running it pretty close

characteristicallyexuberant

skargardian



BuckeyeChicago, I'm sorry I can see you've posted, (twice?), since I went off in search of the motw pix I was looking for. I do tend to get distracted

 

[BuckeyeChicago]

Yeah, those eyes, definite

Those reviews/interviews do seem confusing as they all seem to be full praise for Alex's wide ranging acting abilities and do not include the words 'True Blood hunk'. I am very pleased for him.

I thought the bullett interview was just perfect. I learnt something new about Alex and his preparation for The East and his sensitive, cultured personality has come to the fore.

Similarly, I thought the solo interview at The Four Seasons Hotel was very interesting. Just let the man speak





Oh RedTopsy, I have always luvd the Chris Maluszynski photoshoot. Gotta be in my top 3 although the Man of the World p/s is running it pretty close

characteristicallyexuberant

skargardian



BuckeyeChicago, I'm sorry I can see you've posted, (twice?), since I went off in search of the motw pix I was looking for. I do tend to get distracted

I think mentioning True Blood is fine, since it is what he's still known best for. But I'll be glad when it isn't mentioned with the terms 'hunk' and 'sex symbol' all the time. Yes, he is those things. But that's not all he is.

I think I like those two photoshoots best because very little Photoshop was used, and when it was used it done well.

It's like his interviews, just let him be him.

And yes, you do tend to get distracted when doing your 'research'

Here's another review snippet:

"As the devoted foot soldiers, Page and Kebbell hit different levels of single-minded obsession. Skarsgard (“Melancholia”) is a creepy, emotionally taut leader who combines Charles Manson with Tom Petty. Patricia Clarkson is icily efficient as Sarah’s business world overlord..."

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/east-movie-review-article-1.1358534

Tom Petty?

 

[Zola24]

I think mentioning True Blood is fine, since it is what he's still known best for. But I'll be glad when it isn't mentioned with the terms 'hunk' and 'sex symbol' all the time. Yes, he is those things. But that's not all he is.

I think I like those two photoshoots best because very little Photoshop was used, and when it was used it done well.

It's like his interviews, just let him be him.

And yes, you do tend to get distracted when doing your 'research'

Here's another review snippet:

"As the devoted foot soldiers, Page and Kebbell hit different levels of single-minded obsession. Skarsgard (“Melancholia”) is a creepy, emotionally taut leader who combines Charles Manson with Tom Petty. Patricia Clarkson is icily efficient as Sarah’s business world overlord..."

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/east-movie-review-article-1.1358534

Tom Petty?

:giggles: A Tom Petty / Charles Manson combination? wtf hardly suffices (;

I also have no problem with the True Blood references and it is just the continuing use of the phrase, 'True Blood hunk' when 'True Blood actor' is equally correct. In fact I thought some of the questions at The East prem in NYC were almost insulting and I thought Alex did very well to keep a smile on his face and respond politely.


This top 3 p/s question is impossible. I'd have trouble ranking just the gq photoshoots ush:

 

[cate1949]

copied this - appeared in Aftonbladt

Skarsgård: “Politicians scare me”
Riots in Stockholm have attracted attention far beyond the country’s borders. From Los Angeles, Alexander Skarsgård followed reports on car fires, police operations and arrests.
-“What is happening now is a reaction to a political system change,” he says.
When Nöjesbladet visits the Swedish Hollywood Celebrity he is on location in Beverly Hills to promote the thriller The East, a film about a group of environmental anarchists battling against unscrupulous corporations. While the film rolled out anarchy spread in the suburbs of Stockholm.
-“What scares me is that far right politicians are trying to use the fact that many of the kids out in the suburbs are immigrants,” he says. “Instead, they should ask themselves why these people feel left out.”
“Sweden has Changed”
For Alexander Skarsgard, 36, the cause of the riots is clear.
-“Sweden used to be an egalitarian society. We were proud that we had a social safety net, free health care and free education - that it really was egalitarian. But that has changed drastically over the past 20 years. Income inequality has grown more sharply than in any other country, including the United States. We have had a change of system where the safety net is no longer available.”
“We must take responsibility”
He thinks that we should be careful not to judge what has just occurred.
-“People who are born in Sweden need to realize that it might not be so easy for someone who was born in Iran or Iraq and living in a poor suburb outside Stockholm. They do not have the same opportunities we had when we were growing up and we have to take responsibility for it.”
​

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/article16869971.ab

​

 

[cate1949]

sittin here waiting for the significant other to come back from retrieving our youngest from a camping trip - found this interview - Cindy Adams? - it looks like it might be from something else - could it be the M interview?


He explained: ''I never wanted to act. My father was in the business. I grew up with it. I was inspired by him. So, although I didn't want it, I was a kid actor at 13.
''Then I studied political science. Then in the military. Then in New York at 20 in management school.
''At 21, I got into trouble and had to figure out what I wanted to do. Dropping out of everything, missing the theatrical excitement, with everything else going weird, I went back to being an actor.

So - there is to me at least - new stuff here. I thought he went to Marymount in NYC to study acting but he is saying management now and I did not recall any "trouble" mentioned in his previous bio type interviews. What was the trouble?

 

[BuckeyeChicago]

sittin here waiting for the significant other to come back from retrieving our youngest from a camping trip - found this interview - Cindy Adams? - it looks like it might be from something else - could it be the M interview?


He explained: ''I never wanted to act. My father was in the business. I grew up with it. I was inspired by him. So, although I didn't want it, I was a kid actor at 13.
''Then I studied political science. Then in the military. Then in New York at 20 in management school.
''At 21, I got into trouble and had to figure out what I wanted to do. Dropping out of everything, missing the theatrical excitement, with everything else going weird, I went back to being an actor.

So - there is to me at least - new stuff here. I thought he went to Marymount in NYC to study acting but he is saying management now and I did not recall any "trouble" mentioned in his previous bio type interviews. What was the trouble?

This is the link:

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/actor_leading_his_own_way_u5rw9l4QRcYirpbRuL7BTM

What it sounds like is that she, or one her people, garbled together, inaccurately, a couple of interviews.

 

[RedTopsy]

sittin here waiting for the significant other to come back from retrieving our youngest from a camping trip - found this interview - Cindy Adams? - it looks like it might be from something else - could it be the M interview?


He explained: ''I never wanted to act. My father was in the business. I grew up with it. I was inspired by him. So, although I didn't want it, I was a kid actor at 13.
''Then I studied political science. Then in the military. Then in New York at 20 in management school.
''At 21, I got into trouble and had to figure out what I wanted to do. Dropping out of everything, missing the theatrical excitement, with everything else going weird, I went back to being an actor.

So - there is to me at least - new stuff here. I thought he went to Marymount in NYC to study acting but he is saying management now and I did not recall any "trouble" mentioned in his previous bio type interviews. What was the trouble?

The only trouble I can recall reading about is in an interview some years ago in a swedish magazine (I can´t remember where or when right now).
There he mentioned that his father "Stellan Skarsgård" had to pic him up from the
policestation one night or morning because he had been in a fight that night in a bar in the neighbourhood. He was younger then. I got the impression from the interview that it might have happened before.
He also said in the interview that his father "had a talk with him" where Stellan said that Alex should think about what he was doing and that he was to smart to be doing this stupid things.
Those early Swedish interviews whith him (often in magazines for men) are rather interesting to read because he was much more open and easy to talk with.
I suppose that is the downside of fame that he no longer can talk so freely.

 

[Santress]

Thanks, Zola, Buckeye & Cate.

More HQ/Mainly MQ from The East press conference (May 28, 2013):









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[Santress]

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