Alexander Skarsgård

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From tonight's Dublin, Ireland WOE premiere (September 30, 2016):

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Meeting #alexanderskarsgard @lighthousecinema premiere for #waroneveryone #lifemade #fangirl #OMG #Eric #Tarzan #InLove

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Hanging with #alexanderskarsgård on a Friday night!

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Can't believe I'm this close and able to control myself!! #alexanderskarsgård

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Alexander Skarsgård. Nuff said...

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The stars of #WarOnEveryone hit the red carpet at the Irish premiere!

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Swoon, it's Alexander Skarsgard stopping for a chat! #WarOnEveryone

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Chats with Alexander Skarsgard. Not the worst way to end the week! #WarOnEveryone (: @debbie_odonnell)

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Alexander Skarsgård. Nuff said...

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#alexanderskarsgård at #lighthousecinema for Irish premiere of #waroneveryone

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Having the craic with Alex

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Alexander is here

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The Late Late Show posted a couple of short clips on their Twitter feed:
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Adding some random Twitter stuff:
And here's an answer to a question I know will be asked - yes he's gorgeous and he smells fantastic #WarOnEveryone #AlexanderSkarsgard
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And the Charlie Brown suit from yesterday is Louis Vuitton:
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I'm very glad that we've not seen any of the baggy grandpa pants on this promo tour! :p
 
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More from the WOE Dublin, Ireland premiere (September 30, 2016):

PICS: Alexander Skarsgård lights up the red carpet for Dublin premiere
By Goss Team -

September 30, 2016

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Alexander Skarsgård made some Irish fans very happy today – posing for selfies at the Dublin premiere of his new movie War On Everyone.

The Tarzan hunk lit up the red carpet in a navy tailored suit.

The actor was joined by his co-star Michael Pena as they walked the red carpet at Dublin’s Lighthouse Cinema.

Hunk: Alexander took to the red carpet | BRIAN MCEVOY

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Sweet: Alexander posed with fans | BRIAN MCEVOY

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Stars: Alexander and Michael Pena | BRIAN MCEVOY

Meanwhile, just hours before his appearance on The Late Late Show, Alexander enjoyed a pint of Guinness as he took in the sites of Dublin.

Award-winning Writer and Director John Michael McDonagh, has brought the cast for his latest movie War On Movie to Dublin for it’s Irish premiere.

Before sitting down with Ryan Tubridy in RTE studios, Alexander Michael Peña and Theo James all enjoyed a pint of the black stuff and posed for photos.

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Pint: Alexander in the Guinness Storehouse | BRIAN MCEVOY


The new movie follows two corrupt cops who set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, however, when they try to intimidate someone who is more dangerous than they are. Or is he?

War On Everyone opens at cinemas nationwide on Thursday 6 October.


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Alexander Skarsgard Brings 'War on Everyone' to Ireland

Alexander Skarsgard looks sharp in a suit while attending the premiere of his film War on Everyone on Friday (September 30) at The Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin, Ireland

Earlier in the day, the 40-year-old actor was spotted signing autographs as he headed out of his hotel with his co-starMichael Pena.

While premiering the film earlier in the week, Alexander opened up about his dancing scene in the flick.

“I don’t think they’re going to invite me toDancing With The Stars,” he joked, adding, “It was terrible…it was really bad.”

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War on Everyone premiere in the Lighthouse Cinema
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#AlexanderSkarsgård at Light House Cinema for Irish premiere of War on Everyone He’s very tall
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Alexander Skarsgård. Nuff said #WarOnEveryone @katebowepr @PatrickKTV


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Me& @RosemaryArtiste spent the evening hanging out with #Alexander Skarsgård-as you do -at #WarOnEveryone premiere @LightHouseD7
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#McDonagh #skasgard #pena #wilmot. Squad goals at the #WarOnEveryone premiere tonight!!!
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Forgot the pic! @Eclipse_Picture #WarOnEveryone

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Great evening @LightHouseD7 for #WarOnEveryone premiere. Thanks to @Eclipse_Picture and @IconFilm for delivering such delightful guests!
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What a way to spend a Fri evening, creeping on @alexskarsgard_ all thru the premiere #WarOnEveryone in @LightHouseD7

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They've all arrived! Time to kick off the Irish premiere of #WarOnEveryone

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Introductions and welcomes from the cast here at the @LightHouseD7!
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What a gentleman - thanks so much for the photo at the @WarOnEveryone premiere in @LightHouseD7 with @AlexSkarsgard1 #WarOnEveryone

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Possibly the tallest man in the world but very lovely Alexander Skarsgård aka Tarzan


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#alexanderskarsgard #irishtelevision #lovehim #tarzan #rte #trueblood

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Very bad photograph of some very handsome people #waroneveryone



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At RTÉ’s The Late Late Show (September 30, 2016, Ireland):

Meanwhile backstage... Up next! #LateLate

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Behind the curtain chats in the ad break! #latelate @ RTE TV Studios The Late Late Show https://www.instagram.com/p/BK_tgJwAIJb/

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Michael Peña, Alexander Skarsgard & John Michael McDonagh on right now on the #latelate

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#WarOnEveryone stars @realmichaelpena, Alexander Skarsgard & John Michael McDonagh on #latelate @Eclipse_Picture



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More fan photos from the Dublin, Ireland WOE premiere (September 30, 2016):

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Me with #alexanderskarsgard #michaelpena photobombed us#waroneveryone #dublin

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Alexander Skarsgård looking very handsome at the premiere of #waroneveryone tonight #Dublin

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New Alex interview with The Guardian Guide (October 1-7, 2016)!

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Alexander Skarsgård: ‘I still wake up shivering in the foetal position’

He’s equally at home in The Legend Of Tarzan as he is a twisted cop in War On Everyone. So why is the sweary Swede having an existential crisis?


by Kevin EG Perry

Afew years ago, Alexander Skarsgård turned up at a Hammarby football match in Stockholm noticeably… what’s a polite way of putting this? Worse for wear? “I was ****faced,” says Skarsgård. “I went up in front of the crowd and started doing this chant. Someone put it on YouTube. I’m very drunk, going: ‘You ****ing ****s, listen to me!’ I thought: ‘This is real embarrassing.’”

During the bleak hangover that followed, the 40-year-old Swedish actor thought he might have torpedoed a career that had just seen him get the part of Tarzan in this summer’s blockbuster. In fact it made him an even more perfect fit for the role. “Warner Bros had said they needed someone primal and animalistic,” he says. “So my agent sent them the video, saying: ‘Isn’t this motherfucker primal enough for you?’”

Another one of the half-million people who watched it was John Michael McDonagh, writer-director of The Guard and Calvary, who was on the lookout for a hard-drinking detective for his pitch-black buddy comedy War On Everyone. “He saw the video and went: ‘That’s the guy,’” says Skarsgård. “It got me the job. The moral of the story is: Make a fool of yourself and people will love you. Remember that, kids.”

When we meet around midday in the lobby of the Hotel Normandy during the Deauville American film festival, it seems he’s taken his own lesson to heart. The previous night he was so smashed that he invaded the DJ booth at War On Everyone’s afterparty and proved that while you can take the man out of Sweden… “I played strictly Abba,” he says. “When in doubt, Lay All Your Love On Me. We closed that place down.”

As he concertinas himself into the back of a people carrier for the two-hour drive to Charles de Gaulle airport, sheltering his eyes behind dark shades, it’s somehow reassuring to know that savage hangovers afflict even movie stars who’ve been blessed with the sort of face that led Ben Stiller to cast him in Zoolander so he could ask him: “Did you ever think there’s more to life than being really, really, really ridiculously good-looking?”

Skarsgård has been figuring out an answer to that ever since. He starred as a brooding, topless vampire in HBO’s True Blood, which ran for seven years until 2014, and made him a pin-up and earned him a legion of fans who’d approach wanting nothing more than to get bitten. (He never did. You bite one fan…) Simultaneously, the show’s success gave him the opportunity to play odd parts in indie films that didn’t trade on his looks. In coming-of-age-in-the-70s film The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, he was the mustachioed creep who slept with his girlfriend’s daughter; in Melancholia’s dreamlike apocalypse he was an earnest, cuckolded newlywed; and in next year’s Duncan Jones-directed Mute he’ll play a silent Amish character. “It’s not about wanting to show I’m versatile,” he explains. “It’s just feeling that excitement of not knowing who a character is but figuring it out and finding him.”

Yet he was back with his pecs out this summer for The Legend Of Tarzan, a blockbuster that, like many in 2016, struggled at the box office. He says he was drawn in by the character’s search for a place in the world and impressed by Harry Potter director David Yates’s ability to make a £140m film feel “intimate”. But it was in some ways a change of scale. “I work mostly in independent movies so the scope of Tarzan was definitely different,” Skarsgård says. “I didn’t feel pressured [by the box office demands] though. It wasn’t like: ‘Oh ****, this is a big movie.’ It was an incredible experience, but it was also nine months of just gym, work and bed. I didn’t have a sip of alcohol. It was robotic.”

Which explains the appeal of War On Everyone, a film in which he both downs and takes shots in every direction. Skarsgård plays Terry, a perma-drunk, Glen Campbell-obsessed, unapologetically corrupt detective partnered with the lightning-witted Bob, played by The Martian’s Michael Peña. It’s the old bad cop/worse cop routine, but laced with fierce cleverness. Where Shane Black’s The Nice Guys were bumbling dunces, McDonagh’s pair trade wisecracks peppered with esoteric references to everyone from Simone de Beauvoir to realist painter Andrew Wyeth.

Their cocaine-fuelled romp takes them through an Albuquerque inexplicably peopled with Quaker bank robbers and burqa-wearing tennis players as the duo go in search of a missing million dollars and that most evil villain of all: a member of the English upper class. It’s wildly irreverent, the tone set by an opening scene in which the pair try to knock down a mime (to see if he’ll make a sound). Likewise, McDonagh’s script lives up to its name by making puckish jokes on any subject you care to think of. Skarsgård, hunching his lean frame into a stoop, relishes it.

“It’s so un-PC, it’s so me,” says Skarsgård. “You could tell John didn’t give a **** about anything, which I found refreshing in a script. I’d read a couple of comedies but nothing that was fun or intelligent enough. When I got this script and it was dark and twisted and weird and completely out there, I was excited.” And besides, he adds, “[John is] a beautiful soul, which helps when you insult everyone.”

He even sees some similarities between his dirty detective and the king of the swingers. “As with Tarzan, there’s dichotomy in the character between being a civilised man and a beast. That’s something we can all relate to. We live in a civilised society, but 12 hours ago we were beasts dancing to Abba.”

Skarsgård has spent his life caught between different worlds: blockbusters and indies, Sweden and the States. During his bohemian upbringing he wanted to be like his friends’ dads who wore suits and drove Saabs. When Skarsgård was 20, his own father Stellan found international fame in Lars von Trier’s Breaking The Waves, and they would go on to appear together for Von Trier in Melancholia. However, when Alexander was growing up his father was simply an eccentric thespian with a penchant for walking around nude. “He was a weird Bergman actor. A 12-year-old kid doesn’t give a **** about that,” says Skarsgård. “He’d be walking around naked or wearing weird Moroccan robes. As a teenager you’re just like: ‘Come on, dad!’”

The young Skarsgård’s first taste of fame was his own. His appearance at the age of 12 in TV film The Dog That Smiled made him a child star, but he soon found he hated the attention and quit acting. “I was desperate to be normal and blend in,” he says. He saw his chance at a life on the straight-and-narrow by enrolling in the Swedish military at 19, “unheard of” in his family. “That was my way to rebel,” he says.

Afterwards, still in search of himself, he decided to head to university in the UK. But he swerved London to find a more authentic British experience, and enrolled at Leeds Met. “It doesn’t get more British than a northern, working-class town,” he says. “There was a club called the Majestic where they had student nights and it was a pound a pint. We lived in Headingley, near the pubs on the Otley Run. Uni was a ******** excuse for being there. I was studying British culture. I loved it.”

Deciding at 20 that he may have been a little hasty quitting acting, it was while visiting Stellan in LA that he won his small part in Zoolander – at his first Hollywood audition – but it was a false dawn. It would be another seven years before he got a major role, and he spent the time in between shuttling between theatres and coffee shops. When he was cast in David Simon and Ed Burns’s Iraq miniseries Generation Kill, he spent a month convinced he was about to be sacked. “It was only after four or five weeks I realised they weren’t going to recast,” he says. “Before that all I could think about was how much it would cost them to reshoot the big fight scenes after they fired me.”

Imposter syndrome is a common feeling – although a little hard to believe from a handsome, 6ft 4in movie star. “That **** doesn’t change,” he assures me. “I felt like that on Tarzan. I was on set thinking: ‘When is the director going to come over and say: Dude, you can go home. We’ve got Tarzan here now.’ That was 10 years after Generation Kill.”

Alexander Skarsgård, then: just like the rest of us. Fond of a pub crawl, obnoxious at sporting events, constantly waiting for that tap on the shoulder telling him the jig is up. So life is still pretty much the same when you’re really, really, really ridiculously good-looking?

“I mean, ****, I still wake up shivering in the foetal position,” he says. “I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunities I get. Getting drunk on someone else’s dime listening to Abba is brilliant, but my life is still ****. I’m still agonising. What the **** am I doing with my life? Where do I belong? Who gives a ****? Let me assure you, it doesn’t get any better.”

War On Everyone is in cinemas from Friday

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Another interview:

Alexander Skarsgård: The most popular Swedish export since Abba

Alexander Skarsgård has followed in his father’s acting footsteps, and with ‘Generation Kill’ and ‘True Blood’ behind him, he’s finding new worlds to conquer in film

‘I really hate monotony,” laughs Alexander Skarsgård. “I hate when things get too familiar and comfortable. There’s no better feeling than going out into the unknown.”

He’s not kidding. The most popular Swedish export since Abba really is something of an adventurer. In 2013, he made it to the South Pole, alongside fellow thespian Dominic West and Prince Harry, in order to raise funds for wounded soldiers. These days he lives in New York but still likes to head off with friends to “go completely off-grid or sailing for a month.”

A former child star – his role in the popular television show The Dog That Smiled made him a household name in his native country – he quit acting during his teens in favour of a stint in the military.

“As a rebellious teenager, I wanted to do anything but acting,” says Skarsgård. “I just wanted something different. I come from a very bohemian family. All pacifists. I grew up in Stockholm: a very urban environment. Definitely nor surrounded by trees. At that point, military service was technically still mandatory but very easy to get out of it. But I felt, well, this could be an interesting challenge.”

He served 18 months with anti-sabotage and anti-terrorism in the Stockholm archipelago before embracing student life at Leeds Beckett University in England.

Hang on. Leeds? Did he just stick a pin in the map? “Basically? Yes. I looked at universities in Ireland and Scotland and Wales, too. I knew I wanted to avoid London. I had so many Swedish friends in London. And they all hung out with each other. But I knew nothing about Leeds. I didn’t know anyone who had ever been there. It was a great experience. This dark, working-class, northern town. Perfect. It was exactly what I wanted.”

The eldest son of screen legend Stellan Skarsgård, Alexander has five younger siblings and two half-brothers. The numbers made for a bustling, chatty upbringing. “It was this big family of these weird, eccentric, bohemian people. There were huge dinner parties growing up. There were always people sitting around the table drinking and talking and eating.

“We were quite different from most of our friends. Today, I’m so grateful I had such a creative, social upbringing. But I had this idea for a couple of years that I just wanted my dad to wear a grey suit, drive a Saab, and carry a briefcase.”
He laughs. “I guess that’s just how bohemian kids rebel.”

He’ll soon travel to Berlin to shoot second World War drama Aftermath, alongside Keira Knightly. He can’t wait to use his new base to get back to his extended family in Stockholm.

“I have a four-year-old brother and a seven-year-old brother and a two-year-old nephew,” he says. “And I haven’t seen them since Christmas. And I miss them. Being away from them really sucks. I’m hoping to get an apartment in Stockholm. I haven’t had a place there for 12 years. It’s too long”

Five of the younger Skarsgårds – Alexander, Gustaf, Bill, Sam, and Valter – have followed dad into acting. Alexander quit the business for almost a decade before he fell back in love with the idea while watching his father at Stockholm’s Royal Theatre.

“I remember hanging out backstage and seeing my dad and how much he enjoyed being around all these other people. Seeing his passion made me want to check it out again. And then I got stuck here.”

Getting stuck, as he puts it, didn’t happen overnight. Despite an early break and a few scenes in Zoolander \(2001), American casting directors were slow to warm to the charms of the statuesque 6ft 4in Swede. “In 2007, I had a moment when I thought: why am I here?” he recalls. “Why am I out here auditioning for the stupid boyfriend in a pilot show? Or the bad horror movie where I get eaten in the fourth scene by an alien? Whenever I read something interesting, someone established would swoop in and get the job at the last second. It was disheartening.

“And then along came Generation Kill. I only got lucky because they didn’t want famous actors in it. They were actually searching for unknowns.”

Generation Kill, a seven-part series detailing the exploits of the United States Marine Corps’ 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a big break, but it almost scuppered the actor’s casting in another HBO series. Skarsgård was on location in Mozambique for Generation Kill when he got the call for True Blood, the vampire drama created by Alan Ball, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of American Beauty and Six Feet Under.

“I had met with Alan more than eight months before Generation Kill,” says the actor. “But I couldn’t come audition at that moment. Lucky for me, the writer’s strike delayed production on True Blood for four months so I could do both. I still had no idea how people were going to respond to it. And then it became this overwhelming thing.”

The ultimately iconic television show has allowed Skarsgård to alternate between interesting indie projects (The East, What Maisie Knew) and tent-pole releases (Battleship, The Legend of Tarzan).

This summer, audiences around the planet became familiar with his formidable abs as the latest incarnation of Tarzan, a role that demanded months of weight-lifting and Pilates, extensive training with the Royal Ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor, and the consumption of 7,000 calories (of meat and potatoes) every day.

“Shooting Tarzan was so physical and technical. There are lots of shots where you’re surrounded by wildebeests, meaning you’re actually surrounded by nothing. You have to be patient. And, luckily, the director David Yates is one of the loveliest men in the world. Even though it’s a big studio movie, he has a way of breaking through the hierarchy and keeping the atmosphere light and fun.”

He won’t name names, but he has known “troubled productions”: “I’ve been on those sets where directors and actors and producers manage through fear, where people are little people. Everybody wants to be somewhere else. They’re afraid of getting fired. It sucks being on sets like that.”

The Tarzan six-pack makes a return appearance in a very different guise in War on Everyone, a new bad cop comedy from John Michael McDonagh, the writer-director of The Guard and Calvary. “There are remnants of Tarzan in there,” laughs Skarsgård. “I just didn’t have enough time to do the Robert de Niro Raging Bull diet.”

War on Everyone follows two corrupt police detectives – Bob (Michael Pena) and Terry (Skarsgård) – as they bribe, extort, drink, and harass their way around Albuquerque. They are bad guys and even worse cops, but their unethical policing might just allow them to stop a properly depraved villain.

“I haven’t done a comedy in 10 years or so,” says Skarsgård. “I’m a big fan of John Michael McDonagh. I thought Calvary and The Guard were great movies. I was in London, shooting Tarzan, when I got the script. Obviously a very different movie, tonally. Tarzan is so heroic and earnest. So to dive straight into this crazy, broad movie where the character’s moral compass is completely off was so great. And, normally, you read a script – even a good one – and think: ‘Oh, it’s this movie’. I had no idea where War on Everyone was going.”

Ever the adventurer? “I guess so,” he says. “A lot of things happen internally when you’re in a new environment or doing something completely different. And I love those things.”

War on Everyone opens on October 7th

Source: Tara Brady for The IrishTimes.com

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Promoting WOE in Dublin, Ireland (September 30, 2016?):

Chat with Alexander Skarsgard and Michael Pena for War On Everyone live Monday. Wilmot podcast Thursday

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Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Pena are sooooooound lads. First junket in a while and enjoyed it a lot.

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When you give #AlexanderSkarsgard & #MichaelPena a packet of Tayto to have with their pints!
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#WarOnEveryone @98FM

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https://twitter.com/RebShekleton/status/782170689960865792



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War on Everyone @waroneveryone #waroneveryone #waroneveryonemovie @michaelpena__ @michaelpena.fanspage #michaelpeña #michaelpena @alexander_skarsgard @alexanderskarsgardofficial @alexanderskarsgard_images @alexanderskarsgard #alexanderskarsgard #alexanderskarsgård

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More from the Ireland WOE premiere (September 30, 2016):

Super night last night at @LightHouseD7 for the brilliant #waroneveryone

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https://twitter.com/OHarasBeers/status/782276496396316676

@PatrickKTV ah there you are in action last night PK @LightHouseD7 #xpose @katebowepr #WarOnEveryone

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https://twitter.com/debbie_odonnell/status/782285442829979648

Not a bad Friday #WarOnEveryone #AlexanderSkarsgard
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https://twitter.com/GrahamGeekEire/status/782135491927891968

Another pic of #AlexanderSkarsgard mid interview with me
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#WarOnEveryone @LightHouseD7

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https://twitter.com/GrahamGeekEire/status/782257601627222016

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Met the lovely Alexander Skarsgärd last night at the premiere of #waroneveryone absolute gentleman #alexanderskarsgard

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We made it onto @goss.ie with the very lovely Alexander Skarsgärd #alexanderskarsgard #waroneveryone #dublin #lighthousecinema

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Alexander Skarsgård & @realmichaelpena At Irish premiere of War on Everyone. @WarOnEveryone @LightHouseD7

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https://twitter.com/gribers/status/781922466264416256

There are the lads, interview coming soon! #WarOnEveryone @LightHouseD7 @Scannain_com @Speakin_Geek is where to listen

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https://twitter.com/GrahamGeekEire/status/781932795056750592
 
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