From The Library:
New interview with
Stellar Magazine (in the Sunday Telegraph Australia, March 31, 2019):
Stellar Q&A: Alexander Skarsgård
Actor
Interview by
SASKIA TILLERS
Stellar Magazine: Your first ever audition landed you a role in 2001’s cult comedy
Zoolander, but when filming wrapped you headed home to Sweden. When you returned to Hollywood a few years later, were auditions tougher than before?
Alexander Skarsgård: I was questioning the reason for being there. I wasn’t even getting in the room for interesting projects. I was being sent the jock role in a bad straight-to-DVD movie or the boyfriend in a horror movie that dies in the third scene eaten by zombies. Sure, I was young and naive… but I didn’t think it would be that hard.
Stellar: Acting runs in the family, though – your father Stellan has made dozens of movies and TV shows. Did he give you a push in that direction?
Alex: It was never my dream [to act]. I’m extremely grateful he didn’t pressure us to go into the industry – or dissuade us. He let us find our own way, make our own mistakes and learn from them.
Stellar: A couple of your seven siblings also act – like your brother Bill, who plays Pennywise the clown in the new
It movies. Did you see the devilish side of him growing up?
Alex: He’d pull that face that he does as the clown when he was being silly as a kid. So I’m glad it paid off. It landed him a job – who’d have thought?
Stellar: In your new movie
The Aftermath you play a German widower forced to share his home with a British colonel [Jason Clarke] and his wife [Keira Knightley] in post-WWII Hamburg. What makes this story different from other war films?
Alex: A lot of them are painted very black and white – good guys vs. bad guys, all the Germans are evil and all the Allied soldiers are heroes. So it was refreshing to read something more nuanced, about people stuck somewhere in-between. He wasn’t a horrible man, he wasn’t brave. He just tried to survive.
Stellar: You have played a few complex characters – Eric the vampire in
True Blood, Perry in
Big Little Lies…
Alex: I’ve been doing darker projects at the moment, and while some actors love to go full Method and live in that headspace for the duration of the shoot, for me it’s the opposite. I’ve always felt the need to separate the two. I had to learn to let go and leave the characters behind.
Stellar: On that note, what was it like for you and Nicole Kidman on
Big Little Lies? You had to film a lot of harrowing scenes that explored emotional and physical abuse in a marriage.
Alex: It was an opportunity to work on something so well written with one of the greatest actors in the world, so there was no time to be afraid. It was such an intense shoot, but I love, love, love Nicole and we became very close, which was my saving grace. Holding her hand throughout and having her by my side was very important. The fact that we could enjoy each other’s company and go for a drink or a meal and talk about other things and connect and have fun made it much more easy to endure the darkness.
Stellar: Speaking of Oscar-winning leading ladies, a lot of people may not remember that you push Lady Gaga off a balcony in the 2009 video clip for her song ‘Paparazzi’. What was that like?
Alex: My buddy [Jonas Åkerlund] who directed it told me about [the concept], and said, “It’s a love story, but it’s definitely not you walking down the beach holding hands.” I had a great time on set with her – she’s fun to be around and incredibly talented. But I actually didn’t know who she was when I got asked to do the video!
The Aftermath is in cinemas on April 11.
Sources:
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/stellar
http://dailytelegraph.digitaleditio...-4b76-acce-64038b462b9d&target=DailyTelegraph
Transcription by The Library
Obviously it's not competing with Captain Marvel or How To Train Your Dragon at the box office, but hopefully it will do well on the long run. It has performed relatively well in the UK so far. 
And Moyer is actually in NY now and has been since Alex showed up. But he is not that tall and doesn't have a brown mole on his right side so I ruled him out. But wouln't it be nice if those two would meet up now and Alex would share a picture. He hasn't shared anything since new years. I was surprised he didn't share anything from his 2 months in Australia! I was hoping for something.
