Alexander Skarsgård

[BuckeyeChicago]

A new project for Alex!



“The pic is described as a Viking revenge saga set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century.”




According to The Hollywood Reporter, it “centres on a Nordic prince who seeks revenge for the death of his father”. Alex would play the prince. Alex “will also be a producer”.

Oh, so it's sort of Vanguard-y, the project idea that he sold to WB way back in 2012 but then nothing happened. But this already has a potential cast, and it looks like a good one. From the HR article:

"Lars Knudsen, who produced Eggers’ breakout The Witch as well as Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Midsommar, is producing the project. Skarsgard is said to have approached Eggers with the initial idea for the story and will also be a producer.
Written by Eggers and Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón, Northman is described as a grounded story set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century that centers on a Nordic prince who seeks revenge for the death of his father.
If talks progress and deals make, Skarsgard would play the prince and Kidman his mother."

Nicole's going to play his mom?! That should be interesting.

I'm glad to see you back Santress! And thanks for all the pics, Alex looks really good all beardy.

 

[OHVamp]

Just glad you are OK, Santress. We were concerned.

 

[audiogirl]

I guess people can stop worrying about him not being busy now. These two projects seem to have somewhat overlapping shooting schedules. Of course they'll work it out. But he will be plenty busy.

 

[M.Skarsgård]

Oh, so it's sort of Vanguard-y, the project idea that he sold to WB way back in 2012 but then nothing happened. But this already has a potential cast, and it looks like a good one. From the HR article:

"Lars Knudsen, who produced Eggers’ breakout The Witch as well as Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Midsommar, is producing the project. Skarsgard is said to have approached Eggers with the initial idea for the story and will also be a producer.
Written by Eggers and Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón, Northman is described as a grounded story set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century that centers on a Nordic prince who seeks revenge for the death of his father.
If talks progress and deals make, Skarsgard would play the prince and Kidman his mother."

Nicole's going to play his mom?! That should be interesting.

I'm glad to see you back Santress! And thanks for all the pics, Alex looks really good all beardy.

Many say that Alex is also a Producer

 

[M.Skarsgård]

 

[theamericanchinadoll]

Thanks for sharing. It is interesting to see the projects he is doing.

 

[Ludwig]

Hi ladies! TQ for the well wishes!
I am still under the weather but much better than I was a week ago.
To make a long story short, I've been in and out of the hospital and also on bed rest. I had surgery and then had a very bad reaction to it which included dangerously elevated blood pressure (they have no idea why as I've always had low blood pressure prior to that surgery).

So, I am taking it easy and still resting up as I try to get back into the swing of things.

I am so glad you are able post Santress. Please rest and I hope you are feeling better soon.
Some new Alex stuff from the AOL Build Series interview today (October 15, 2019):

We're getting a look at #TheKillTeam from #AlexanderSkarsgård, @krauss_dan & Nat Wolff (@natandalex) now on http://BUILDseries.com !

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“It’s an exercise in conformity... It takes a lot of courage to step up to someone of authority.” - #AlexanderSkarsgard discusses the themes that drew him to #TheKillTeam



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Spending today working the PR gig alongside Alexander Skarsgård, trying to take pointers on how to be handsome.



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[StarrLady]

I guess people can stop worrying about him not being busy now. These two projects seem to have somewhat overlapping shooting schedules. Of course they'll work it out. But he will be plenty busy.

Exactly. And these are projects that were announced by legitimate and reliable industry sources. I will never understand how some people link him to projects that were mentioned by non-legitimate sources, that he was never really linked to.

I consider his latest projects to be very desirable ones. Playing Randall Flagg in Steven King’s The Stand sounds very exciting. And it’s very impressive that Alex will probably be playing the lead as well as being a producer in The Northman, written and directed by Robert Eggers. Eggers has become an acclaimed director and the cast looks to be impressive as well.

 

[audiogirl]

Exactly. And these are projects that were announced by legitimate and reliable industry sources. I will never understand how some people link him to projects that were mentioned by non-legitimate sources, that he was never really linked to.

I consider his latest projects to be very desirable ones. Playing Randall Flagg in Steven King’s The Stand sounds very exciting. And it’s very impressive that Alex will probably be playing the lead as well as being a producer in The Northman, written and directed by Robert Eggers. Eggers has become an acclaimed director and the cast looks to be impressive as well.

His career is moving at the speed he wants it to, with the projects he wants to take. He always talks about what attracts him to certain roles. It's usually an interesting character or an interesting set of circumstances for the character. Of course the director and script matter. And he does like to mix his types of roles up if he can. I've never seen him discuss potential boxoffice or his relative fame vs. others. He has joked about being in Indies that only 12 people saw. But he'll keep doing indies.

Stellan said he does the occasional big Hollywood movie so he can keep doing indies. I'm sure that's how Alex sees it, although I don't think either new project is really an indie--Maybe Northman.

Oh and Stellan also said he tries to only work half a year. That looks like what Alex has done this time.

 

[M.Skarsgård]

www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/movies/alexander-skarsgard-the-kill-team.amp.html

 

[M.Skarsgård]

There Are Worse Roles Than the Seducer. Ask Alexander Skarsgard.
The actor talks about his latest turn as a compelling sociopath in “The Kill Team” and his Emmy-winning role in “Big Little Lies.”

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Alexander Skarsgard CreditAaron Richter for The New York Times

• Oct. 18, 2019, 10:00 a.m. ET

Alexander Skarsgard found “The Kill Team,” Dan Krauss’s 2014 documentary about American soldiers accused of murdering Afghan civilians for sport, deeply disturbing.

But when Krauss decided to transform it into a feature film, and asked Skarsgard to play Sergeant Deeks, a role based on the ringleader — Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, now serving a life sentence — Skarsgard imagined something other than the war atrocities and whistle-blowing central to the narrative.

“At end of the day I saw it as a love story,” he said, recalling his character as at once fatherly and sadistic, in many ways irresistible to the impressionable infantrymen. “It’s about jealousy and how my character is able to manipulate these young soldiers and how he plays them against each other. It’s a courtship.”

The sociopath in sheep’s clothing is a role Skarsgard has come to know well; it follows his Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning turn as Perry, the suave, wife-beating rapist whose death ignites “Big Little Lies.”


And now he’s shooting “The Stand,” the CBS All Access adaptation of the Stephen King novel by the same name. He’ll play Randall Flagg, a.k.a. the Dark Man (among other aliases), an evildoer who repeatedly shows up in King’s work.

On break from the show’s Vancouver set, Skarsgard, 43, settled his towering, post-“Tarzan” frame onto a sofa in a Manhattan film office while alternating sips of water and black coffee. The city is his base, though he intends to spend more time in Sweden with his family.

Has portraying the seducer become a recurring theme? “I hope not,” Skarsgard said, laughing uncomfortably and blushing a little. “Though I could have a worse fate than getting stuck doing that,” he added.

These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Calvin Gibbs isn’t heard from in the documentary. So how did you begin to develop his character?


It was very important to me that he was enigmatic and magnetic in a way where he would draw them to him. It’s not that he’s just a tough badass who’s been to war, because that wouldn’t be very interesting for long. It’s that feeling of “I would do anything, whatever you ask me to,” which in this case turns into something really, really dark. So in these more intimate moments I wanted it to be more of a seduction. It’s not all big muscles and testosterone.

Because you wanted Deeks to feel like an “other” when he appeared, you didn’t prep for the film alongside Nat Wolff and Adam Long. Were they aware of what was happening?

[Laughs] I think they felt that I was trying to seduce them.

What disturbed you most about the documentary?

It raised a lot of questions — and a lot of questions about myself. How would I react in a situation like that? Do I have the moral courage to say when enough is enough or when something is wrong? Whistle-blowers are vital to a democracy, and I’m very troubled by the way they’re being persecuted today. Having served in the military, I’m not naïve and understand that there are things that you don’t want to go public. But when there are wrongdoings, there’s got to be a channel to address that, and they’re referred to today almost as if they’re spies. We would not have had Watergate without Deep Throat. We would not have had the Pentagon Papers without [Daniel] Ellsberg. It’s important to have people in authority be held accountable. Because if they can act with impunity, then what kind of society are we creating?


Drawing on your own military experience in Sweden, how do you explain the dynamic between commanding officers and enlisted men that makes soldiers do things they wouldn’t ordinarily consider?

You’re fascinated by them. When I first joined, I remember a week or two when we’re on base and the guys that had been in for a year already were out on a mission. We were sitting there in our crisp, brand-new uniforms, nice polished shoes, and we hadn’t yet earned the hat and the symbol on your shoulder and the dagger that our unit had. And when they came back after two weeks in the woods with the smell and bloody knuckles and dirt and a uniform that’s been out in the field for a year and the hats, and the daggers on their shoulders, I remember looking at those guys like they were the coolest human beings on the planet. If they ever said hi or something, we’d just melt.

Let’s talk about that other sociopath, Perry in “Big Little Lies.” Your character was already dead in Season 2, but you frequently showed up in flashbacks. Did you film new scenes?

Yeah, all those flashbacks were shot a year later.

How tricky were those scenes in which you hit Nicole Kidman, who played your wife?


Nicole and I slowly walked through the movements, just to feel that we were comfortable with what was happening and that we were on the same page with what we’re trying to do. But then it was like flipping a switch when the camera rolled and diving in, which was very intense and very exhausting. But I think the importance in that relationship is that you flip those switches at the same time, on and off, and Nicole and I were very much in sync. We both know we feel it and then, boom, we’re in. And then we know exactly when to stop and pull the ripcord.

You also had a scene with Meryl Streep, who played your very scary mother. Were you at all nervous or star-struck?

I’d never met her, but Dad [Stellan Skarsgard] has worked with her on “Mamma Mia” twice, and he adores her. She couldn’t have been more magnanimous or lovely on set but you definitely feel that you’re in the presence of greatness.

So like the military, there’s a hierarchy on set?

I wouldn’t say it’s a hierarchy because she’s so warm and lovely and easygoing. It’s not like you’re on set and a big movie star walks on and people tense up or get uncomfortable. But that said, it’s [expletive] Meryl Streep, so to work with her was extraordinary. You don’t have to act because she gives you so much that you could just sit and absorb and receive. I felt like a spectator sometimes in those scenes. I just wanted to lean back and eat popcorn and admire her.


And now you’re cast as Randall Flagg, another terrifying guy.

It’s early days, so I’m still trying to shape him and figure out who he is. But he is definitely one of the most enigmatic characters I’ve ever played. He’s a trickster and seducer as well. He has an anarchistic streak, and he’s intrigued by physical destruction but also moral destruction and finds most people very pitiful and very easy to manipulate.

Is Stephen King involved in the production?

They’re talking about going up to Maine to do a private screening once we’re done with the first episode, and it’s exciting that he’s very much involved. He wrote the final episode himself. It’s a coda to a novel written 40 years ago where you see what happened after the novel ends, and that episode is amazing.

Next year we’ll also see you in “Godzilla vs. Kong.” What can you say about your character?

He’s much more likable than Perry or Randall Flagg. He’s a geologist and works closely with Kong. And what I liked about my character was he’s terrified, he’s not brave, he’s not equipped to be a leader or a hero, and he enters this adventure very reluctantly. I’d done a series of quite intimate and dark films, which I loved — “Little Drummer Girl,” about the conflict in the Middle East, and “Hold the Dark,” about a man who loses his son. So after these very intense roles I was just ready to go and have fun.

Back to the question of being a whistle-blower yourself: What did you ultimately conclude?

It’s easy to sit here on the couch with a coffee and say, “Yeah, I would blow the whistle, of course. I’d do the righteous thing.” I hope that I would have the courage to do that — but I’m not sure.

 

[StarrLady]

The cast for The Stand keeps growing. Latest reports have Greg Kinnear and Heather Graham joining the cast which already includes Alexander Skarsgard, James Marsden, Whoopi Goldberg, Amber Heard, Nat Wolff, etc.

https://geektyrant.com/news/greg-ki...ngs-adaptation-of-the-stand-at-cbs-all-access

 

[M.Skarsgård]

 

[Santress]

Alex at the Esquire Townhouse event (October 19, 2019, London):



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Source: The October 19, 2019 insta stories of

https://www.instagram.com/clarksshoes/



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[Santress]

When Alexander Skarsgård seems shocked that you’re mother and daughter. He was super touched when I said he inspired me to keep going with the film industry. ❤️



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Source: The October 19, 2019 insta stories of

https://www.instagram.com/philbaxter/

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Source: The October 19, 2019 insta story of

https://www.instagram.com/deniztamer1/



Alexander Skarsgard and I are engaged (ring currently being resized).

https://twitter.com/JemalPolson/status/1185653712385200134



Omg great evening thanks @EsquireUK magazine and
@breitling
It was amazing to watch Man City vs Crystal Palace
Watching a episode of of big little liars with golden globe and Emmy winner
And getting to met him and selfie with Alexander skarsgard

https://twitter.com/FHGLofficial/status/1185654323604312064