Alexander Skarsgård
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Thank you for posting The Man of the World photos. They are exceptionally beautiful.Another pic of Alex by Guy Aroch from Man of the World/No. 16:
“"I needed to do something different and slightly more extreme." #Alexander Skarsgard in MotW No. 16, available now at manoftheworld.com.
by @guyaroch fashion by @allankennedystyle blue plaid overcoat by @brioni #manoftheworld.”
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thanks I appreciate it! I have some reading and analyzing to do! LOL
There will be a quiz!
I think this is the most we've talked about their actual dating life in about year.He's gloriously dorky, it's one of his many charms.
The photos from the last cover he did for them, back in 2013, are also really beautiful. Closeup, and barely photoshopped. And the magazine is a bit oversized, so that makes it even better. It's not a cheap magazine, but for the photos alone that edition was worth it.
Another pic of Alex by Guy Aroch from Man of the World/No. 16:
“"I needed to do something different and slightly more extreme." #Alexander Skarsgard in MotW No. 16, available now at manoftheworld.com.
by @guyaroch fashion by @allankennedystyle blue plaid overcoat by @brioni #manoftheworld.”
-ManoftheWorld instagram
omg....he looks so damn good.
Thanks Free
Duncan Jones posted this about the first week of shooting 'Mute' ... but sadly no pics of the cast
Duncan Jones posted this about the first week of shooting 'Mute' ... but sadly no pics of the cast
Thanks so much Free!! Big Little Lies looks really good! I read the book and loved it. It will be great to see him every week for a couple of months.
Thanks, ladies.
From The Library:
Alex is on the cover of Man of the World’s Fall 2016 issue (No. 16, cover 2/3)(pgs. 84-105)
Top Swede
Alexander Skarsgård Strolls Into the Big Leagues
Despite having spent the past fifteen years slashing his way through the pitiless jungle of Hollywood--surviving the sour poison of rejection and fending off subpar horror scripts--Alexander Skarsgård, the eldest son of renowned actor Stellan, retains the ebullience of an overgrown boy. At the moment, the forty-year-old is holed up at The Beekman hotel in New York City, a pit stop on the global press tour for his starring role as Lord Greystoke in The Legend of Tarzan. "LA, Vegas, Mexico City, London, Tokyo, Sydney. It's like 140 five-minute interviews in a row," he says. "For someone who works mostly in independent movies, it's crazy."
It's not lost on Skarsgård that, in May 2007, he was contemplating a very different reality: leaving Manhattan to spend a summer of unemployment in Stockholm. He was out of money, hadn't worked in over a year, and was ready for a break. He'd moved out of his apartment and sold his beloved white-and-burgundy 1981 Cadillac Eldorado. Save for a cameo in Zoolander, Hollywood didn't seem to know what to do with him.
The call came the night before his trip home. In what turned out to be Skarsgård's first big break, he would play Sgt. Brad "Iceman" Colbert in the HBO series Generation Kill, a role he had auditioned for three times. He assumed a big-name actor would snag the part, as had happened so many times before.
To be fair, it was actually his second big break. At age seven, Skarsgård made his debut in a small Swedish film, which led to a supporting role in a bigger Swedish film, Åke and His World. He became famous in Sweden at age 13 when he was cast as the lead in Hunden som log (The dog that smiled), a surprise hit TV movie. But the brush with fame didn't agree with him, and after high school, he joined the military. For a year and a half, the National Service recruit was stationed around the Stockholm archipelago, performing anti-sabotage-type counterintelligence operations on remote islands. He says, "I just wanted that challenge. I needed to do something different and slightly more extreme."
Skarsgård says that, in reality, he was escaping a community that was starting to feel claustrophobic. "I was raised in southern Stockholm, which is a very artistic, bohemian neighborhood. My whole family and everyone we knew were artists. My dad's an actor, my uncle is a writer, my aunt is a painter," he says. Family dinners included fifteen people--all artists, all atheists, all very interesting, everyone smoking and drinking wine every night. "It was just all art, which made it a very hippy-dippy household in the 1980s. We never locked the door. Our cousins lived upstairs in an apartment, and grandma and grandpa were across the street," he recalls.
Then he went off to university in Leeds, England. After six months of partying, he started to wonder what he should be doing.
"I couldn't really find anything I was passionate about, excited about," he says. "And then I thought, Well, I kind of enjoyed acting, and remember that being fun as a kid." So, in 1997, Skarsgård moved to New York City to study theater at Marymount Manhattan College. After a couple of months, he says, "I kind of knew." His confidence may have been bolstered at the time by his father's recent successes in Breaking the Waves and Good Will Hunting, but he didn't know it would be close to a decade before anyone knew hi or he received a decent paycheck. In this regard, Swedes might be well-suited for the pride-swallowing slog of the Hollywood actor. "It's a very different culture," he says. "It's a slightly more utilitarian society that's less about profit and the notion of the American dream of 'You're going to be this and do this to take of yourself and your needy family,' and you fight for your own piece of the pie. In Sweden, people feel less disenfranchised. They feel that the governent is working for them and that it is of and for the people."
If he were to become a Hollywood flop, he would simply return to the homeland and enjoy the government's sweet largesse, like the rest of his pals. But fate had a different plan for Skarsgård. Not long after Generation Kill, he landed the role of Eric Northman, the 1,000-year-old Viking vampire in HBO's True Blood.
His clothing-optional upbringing prepared him to expose his manhood to millions of hemoglobin-loving True Blood watchers. When his 2016 MTV Movie Awards copresenter and Tarzan co-star Samuel L. Jackson asked him why he was presenting the Movie of the Year award in a tux sans pants, Skarsgård replied, "Me Tarzan. Gotta give the fans a little skin."
The money from True Blood has given Alexander opportunities to indulge his proclivity for the outdoors. In 2014, he trekked to the South Pole with Prince Harry, actor Dominic West, and a number of injured servicemen for the Walking with the Wounded charity. The following year, he visited Greenland as part of Greenpeace's "Save the Artic" campaign. This fall, he hopes to make another trip to the Amazon.
His approach to the adventurous is similar to his approach to selecting roles. "It's just kind of a gut feeling," he says, "It's all kind of a visceral reaction to the material. It's like when you read a book: You either get immersed in it and get thoughts, ideas and questions--who is this guy? What's going on?--or it doesn't trigger anything. It's a combination of that and who the filmmaker is."
His latest film, War on Everyone, had him at the first scene: two bad cops assault a mime and steal his drugs. "Throughout the movie, my character is constantly drunk, getting beat up, stealing money, doing blow in bathroom stalls," he laughs. "It was almost a cathartic experience after the intensity of Lord Greystoke."
The brooding Greystoke required an intense nine-month diet and workout routine to develop the physique of a man raised by apes. It's a subject he's discussed ad nauseam, if happily, at press junkets. The moment filming was done, he chugged a beer and inhaled a loaf of bread and a giant bowl of pasta.
After ten years of living in Los Angeles, Skarsgård moved into an East Village apartment two years ago. He loves LA but says he longed for New York City's spontaneous interactions and opportunities. When he has a free day, he likes to walk out the door, grab a cup of coffee and see what the day brings.
When it comes to fashion, Skarsgård, who has been dating British fashion model-journalist Alexa Chung since 2015, says he gravitates toward Swedish minimalism. But he tries to avoid following fads, which is an aspect of Swedish culture, too.
"Swedes are incredibly trendy. I think that comes from the fear of being like the cousin from the country way up there in northern Europe," he says. I don't think we are cool, but we know what the latest trend is. I think that's why, when Americans come to Sweden, they're like, 'Oh my God, everyone looks like they're just out of a fashion magazine!' In Sweden, there's a lot of anxiety about this conformity."
Perhaps Skarsgård is more patient than his fellow countrymen. With Tarzan wrapped, more big-budget film offers are sure to come. But after thirty-three years in the business, he isn't burdened by expectations anymore. "I try to stay away from trends," he says. "It kind of reeks of insecurity."
Sources: The Library's digital scans of Man of the World’s Fall 2016 issue (No. 16, cover 2/3)(pgs. 84-105), Photos by Guy Aroch
Article/scan text transcribed by The Library
You can purchase a limited edition print copy here:
http://www.manoftheworld.com/products/issue-no-16
From The Library:
Alex is on the cover of Man of the World’s Fall 2016 issue (No. 16, cover 2/3)(pgs. 84-105)
Top Swede
Alexander Skarsgård Strolls Into the Big Leagues
Despite having spent the past fifteen years slashing his way through the pitiless jungle of Hollywood--surviving the sour poison of rejection and fending off subpar horror scripts--Alexander Skarsgård, the eldest son of renowned actor Stellan, retains the ebullience of an overgrown boy. At the moment, the forty-year-old is holed up at The Beekman hotel in New York City, a pit stop on the global press tour for his starring role as Lord Greystoke in The Legend of Tarzan. "LA, Vegas, Mexico City, London, Tokyo, Sydney. It's like 140 five-minute interviews in a row," he says. "For someone who works mostly in independent movies, it's crazy."
It's not lost on Skarsgård that, in May 2007, he was contemplating a very different reality: leaving Manhattan to spend a summer of unemployment in Stockholm. He was out of money, hadn't worked in over a year, and was ready for a break. He'd moved out of his apartment and sold his beloved white-and-burgundy 1981 Cadillac Eldorado. Save for a cameo in Zoolander, Hollywood didn't seem to know what to do with him.
The call came the night before his trip home. In what turned out to be Skarsgård's first big break, he would play Sgt. Brad "Iceman" Colbert in the HBO series Generation Kill, a role he had auditioned for three times. He assumed a big-name actor would snag the part, as had happened so many times before.
To be fair, it was actually his second big break. At age seven, Skarsgård made his debut in a small Swedish film, which led to a supporting role in a bigger Swedish film, Åke and His World. He became famous in Sweden at age 13 when he was cast as the lead in Hunden som log (The dog that smiled), a surprise hit TV movie. But the brush with fame didn't agree with him, and after high school, he joined the military. For a year and a half, the National Service recruit was stationed around the Stockholm archipelago, performing anti-sabotage-type counterintelligence operations on remote islands. He says, "I just wanted that challenge. I needed to do something different and slightly more extreme."
Skarsgård says that, in reality, he was escaping a community that was starting to feel claustrophobic. "I was raised in southern Stockholm, which is a very artistic, bohemian neighborhood. My whole family and everyone we knew were artists. My dad's an actor, my uncle is a writer, my aunt is a painter," he says. Family dinners included fifteen people--all artists, all atheists, all very interesting, everyone smoking and drinking wine every night. "It was just all art, which made it a very hippy-dippy household in the 1980s. We never locked the door. Our cousins lived upstairs in an apartment, and grandma and grandpa were across the street," he recalls.
Then he went off to university in Leeds, England. After six months of partying, he started to wonder what he should be doing.
"I couldn't really find anything I was passionate about, excited about," he says. "And then I thought, Well, I kind of enjoyed acting, and remember that being fun as a kid." So, in 1997, Skarsgård moved to New York City to study theater at Marymount Manhattan College. After a couple of months, he says, "I kind of knew." His confidence may have been bolstered at the time by his father's recent successes in Breaking the Waves and Good Will Hunting, but he didn't know it would be close to a decade before anyone knew hi or he received a decent paycheck. In this regard, Swedes might be well-suited for the pride-swallowing slog of the Hollywood actor. "It's a very different culture," he says. "It's a slightly more utilitarian society that's less about profit and the notion of the American dream of 'You're going to be this and do this to take of yourself and your needy family,' and you fight for your own piece of the pie. In Sweden, people feel less disenfranchised. They feel that the governent is working for them and that it is of and for the people."
If he were to become a Hollywood flop, he would simply return to the homeland and enjoy the government's sweet largesse, like the rest of his pals. But fate had a different plan for Skarsgård. Not long after Generation Kill, he landed the role of Eric Northman, the 1,000-year-old Viking vampire in HBO's True Blood.
His clothing-optional upbringing prepared him to expose his manhood to millions of hemoglobin-loving True Blood watchers. When his 2016 MTV Movie Awards copresenter and Tarzan co-star Samuel L. Jackson asked him why he was presenting the Movie of the Year award in a tux sans pants, Skarsgård replied, "Me Tarzan. Gotta give the fans a little skin."
The money from True Blood has given Alexander opportunities to indulge his proclivity for the outdoors. In 2014, he trekked to the South Pole with Prince Harry, actor Dominic West, and a number of injured servicemen for the Walking with the Wounded charity. The following year, he visited Greenland as part of Greenpeace's "Save the Artic" campaign. This fall, he hopes to make another trip to the Amazon.
His approach to the adventurous is similar to his approach to selecting roles. "It's just kind of a gut feeling," he says, "It's all kind of a visceral reaction to the material. It's like when you read a book: You either get immersed in it and get thoughts, ideas and questions--who is this guy? What's going on?--or it doesn't trigger anything. It's a combination of that and who the filmmaker is."
His latest film, War on Everyone, had him at the first scene: two bad cops assault a mime and steal his drugs. "Throughout the movie, my character is constantly drunk, getting beat up, stealing money, doing blow in bathroom stalls," he laughs. "It was almost a cathartic experience after the intensity of Lord Greystoke."
The brooding Greystoke required an intense nine-month diet and workout routine to develop the physique of a man raised by apes. It's a subject he's discussed ad nauseam, if happily, at press junkets. The moment filming was done, he chugged a beer and inhaled a loaf of bread and a giant bowl of pasta.
After ten years of living in Los Angeles, Skarsgård moved into an East Village apartment two years ago. He loves LA but says he longed for New York City's spontaneous interactions and opportunities. When he has a free day, he likes to walk out the door, grab a cup of coffee and see what the day brings.
When it comes to fashion, Skarsgård, who has been dating British fashion model-journalist Alexa Chung since 2015, says he gravitates toward Swedish minimalism. But he tries to avoid following fads, which is an aspect of Swedish culture, too.
"Swedes are incredibly trendy. I think that comes from the fear of being like the cousin from the country way up there in northern Europe," he says. I don't think we are cool, but we know what the latest trend is. I think that's why, when Americans come to Sweden, they're like, 'Oh my God, everyone looks like they're just out of a fashion magazine!' In Sweden, there's a lot of anxiety about this conformity."
Perhaps Skarsgård is more patient than his fellow countrymen. With Tarzan wrapped, more big-budget film offers are sure to come. But after thirty-three years in the business, he isn't burdened by expectations anymore. "I try to stay away from trends," he says. "It kind of reeks of insecurity."
Sources: The Library's digital scans of Man of the World’s Fall 2016 issue (No. 16, cover 2/3)(pgs. 84-105), Photos by Guy Aroch
Article/scan text transcribed by The Library
You can purchase a limited edition print copy here:
http://www.manoftheworld.com/products/issue-no-16
Sources: The Library's digital scans of Man of the World’s Fall 2016 issue (No. 16, cover 2/3)(pgs. 84-105), Photos by Guy ArochYou can purchase a limited edition print copy here:
http://www.manoftheworld.com/products/issue-no-16
He is such a gorgeous man that patterned clothes do him no justice. I really wish that the interviewers would stop always going over his back story. I think the world knows it by now. The only thing new was the '81 Cadillac Eldorado.
More promo pics of Alex in War on Everyone:
Source:
Moviegod.de
http://www.moviegod.de/kino/galerie/2609/dirty-cops
via MovieGodde twitter
https://twitter.com/MovieGodde/status/788777382249238528
Source:
Moviegod.de
http://www.moviegod.de/kino/galerie/2609/dirty-cops
via MovieGodde twitter
https://twitter.com/MovieGodde/status/788777382249238528
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VK.com/badcops
via Arthouse.ru (the official distributor of WOE in Russia)
