Interview with Alex in the Café Magazine from July 2016. I totally forgot this one, sorry. Hope you enjoy it.
Alexander the Great
By Emil Persson Photo Kurt Iswarienko
transcript and translation MsSussiluss Tumbr
>> After ten years of hard work in Hollywood, he faces a greatest career trial - to wear a blockbuster on his shoulders. Café Magazine travels to Los Angeles for an exclusive meeting with the king of the jungle
It is always special to be in Hollywood during the Oscar weekend. Golden man Fever prevails. In a greater extent than usual jetset- and headsets people are sitting in the hotel bars and take pride loudly referring to celebrities with only first names. TV channels show panels deadpan dumps all winners for Sunday’s showdown. Pitches: agitated.
As the world’s total TMZ reserve is in the same neighborhood are arranged is also traditionally a lot of press events. For example, it is facing ‘The Legend of Tarzan’ (Premiere in Sweden July 13) at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. With Alexander Skarsgard as the event’s hub.
The Swedish actor, dressed in jeans and black shirt, just come from a lunch with Alicia Vikander (which is two days from winning her first Oscar). Nowadays, however, he is only a tourist in Los Angeles. Two years ago, he moved to New York.
- There has been intense the last few weeks. I was here, then I went to New York, then Berlin Film Festival, then back to New York, then Istanbul for another film festival - and then I came here for like two days ago and have started filming here. I’m a little tender, but feeling good. Right now I am filming a miniseries for HBO called 'Big Little Lies’. We’re shooting here in town and reside in Monterey, just south of San Francisco.
One might think that it easily becomes a bit excessive attention around the actor’s physical transformations in the media; extreme focus on methodology of exercise and diet schedule, so-called eggwhite journalism, (Entertainment Journalists love to talk about the Film Actors Guild transformations in general and Christian Bales weight loss before 'The Machinist’ in particular). It is easy to feel acute fatigue for the phenomenon: is it really so damn hard to eat what you are served and work out which one is told when it strikes a full time job? And you also earn scandalous amounts of money on it?
But damn it’s hard not to be torso struck when Alexander Skarsgard comes into the room. He is a monumentally huge, Skarsgård. The chest is so broad that Polish truck could pass each other on him at night.
His chest is also a consequence of which in some cultures would be called for hard work. Alexander began preparations film as he recorded the final episodes of 'True Blood’. Then he eat 7 000 calories a day. A typical recommended daily intake for men who do not play Tarzan is about 2 500 calories.
- I just stuffed myself with food, and lifted weights. I put on quite a lot of weight - but also fat. Two months before we started filming, I went down on a very strict diet with a chef who cooked six meals a day to me. He weighed proteins and came every three hours with a lunch box. “Eat this! Drink this! Do it here! "I’ve never been involved with diets or have a personal trainer before, so this was quite new to me.
At least he's not wearing those )@(# baggy pants!
I don't want his blood supply to be cut off or anything but I do appreciate being able to see the shape of his legs. 