Hello Jooa,
I agree with you on your last sentences about Dada having free time, and Alex wanting a companion. But I am not so sure about them being early childhood friends. If you remember a podcast Alex did in Dec 2016 with his friends, Stocks and Wilson, he talked about how they all met.
First Stocks was trying to establish how Alex and he himself met. Stocks said it was in Stockholm throgh a mutual friend but Alex insisted they first met in Gothenburg at a bathroom of a restaurant. He said "We hung out there a lot (Restaurant Vasastan in Gothenburg). I lived in Gothenburg at the time, I worked at Vita Lögner. Then one day, a cute blond little boy (Stocks) stood next to me at the urinal…" I am guessing the time he was referring to was in 1999. Alex said he forgot about him after that and they met a couple of more times through mutual friends but that was it. They were not friends. Then he said that some years later,
"I got a job at Stadsteatern in Gothenburg. And I didn’t know anyone there. I had met you (Stocks) a couple of times, and
I met a guy called Dada during a fika, and a girl called Ingrid from Halmstad. I felt like [an antisocial serial killer, like Jeffrey Dahmer], sitting there at nights. So I called the three people I knew, not really knew, but knew existed. "Hi, my name is Alexander, don’t know if you remember me, we had a coffee three years ago…”
I think the job he is referring to in Stadsteatern is a play called
Blodsbröllop. He was in this play and it premiered in September 2003. The theater still has a web page for it. The link is here and his name is at the bottom of all the other actors.
https://stadsteatern.goteborg.se/pa-scen/2003-2004/blodsbrollop/
It sounds like he&Dada became closer after this period. It also sounds like he probably met Dada for the first time at the fika (coffee) when he was filming Vita Lögner in Gothenburg also. Then in 2000 Dada appeared at his movie premiere Vingar Av Glas. So they hung out a couple of times but didnt keep seeing each other until Alex had to live in Gothenburg again (according to this podcast).