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I had no idea ALex was friends with that Siggi! LOL.
She doesnt seem very interested in hanging out with his family either as seen with her absence for his 40th birthday and the Skarsgard Bali vacation where all other skarsgard significant others were present. Oh well. Whatever works for them.
He's been friends with Siggi for quite some time, the 2013 hike in Iceland was with Siggi.
As for his 40th, I think they'd broken up by then so that's why she wasn't there. However, they were definitely back together by the holidays and her not being with the SkarsClan in Bali still intrigues me. Once again, he has no problem hanging out with her family, but she does seem to have with his when it's a more Swedish-centric setting, like Sweden or a large gathering in Bali. Don't get it.
Lainey, Alex hater, has turned into an Alex lover because of his turn on BLL which she loves:
Alexa & Alex together in New York
Posted by Lainey 3:24 PMMarch 23, 2017
It’s been a while since Alexa Chung and Alexander Skarsgardhave been photographed together. Which is why so many people assumed that they’d broken up. Here they are today in New York, together. Another example of how not being photographed together sometimes doesn’t mean anything. Like the time it happened with Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes and then, after it was reported that they were over, they went and had a baby.
Anyway, Alexa and Alex, still a thing.
But that’s really not the thing to be talking about when we’re talking right now about Alexander Skargard, is it? Not if you watch Big Little Lies. He is EXCELLENT in Big Little Lies. The best he’s ever been, like so many other members of the cast. Perry is not one-dimensional. You saw that when he and Celeste went to therapy together, his admission that he feels insecure, that (in his mind) she makes him feel inadequate. You saw it last week when he wept at the airport. Yes, of course, he’s a controlling, manipulative *******. But it comes from somewhere. Perry is written so that we understand what that is – and that’s not to excuse his behaviour, of course not, but to give it context, to make it real. Real because it happens all the time, in real life, in real homes, every day. And so, often, that’s why she stays.
I’ll have more to say about this tomorrow, before the new episode on Sunday. For now though, if you haven’t been watching Big Little Lies, get on it. This show is doing more for Alexander Skarsgard’s career than Tarzan ever could.
http://www.laineygossip.com/Alexa-C...sgard-photographed-together-in-New-York/46613
Hi, Moo. Sending thoughts and prayers to you and your fellow countrymen/women.
Alexa & Alex together in New York
Posted by Lainey 3:24 PMMarch 23, 2017
It’s been a while since Alexa Chung and Alexander Skarsgardhave been photographed together. Which is why so many people assumed that they’d broken up. Here they are today in New York, together. Another example of how not being photographed together sometimes doesn’t mean anything. Like the time it happened with Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes and then, after it was reported that they were over, they went and had a baby.
Anyway, Alexa and Alex, still a thing.
But that’s really not the thing to be talking about when we’re talking right now about Alexander Skargard, is it? Not if you watch Big Little Lies. He is EXCELLENT in Big Little Lies. The best he’s ever been, like so many other members of the cast. Perry is not one-dimensional. You saw that when he and Celeste went to therapy together, his admission that he feels insecure, that (in his mind) she makes him feel inadequate. You saw it last week when he wept at the airport. Yes, of course, he’s a controlling, manipulative *******. But it comes from somewhere. Perry is written so that we understand what that is – and that’s not to excuse his behaviour, of course not, but to give it context, to make it real. Real because it happens all the time, in real life, in real homes, every day. And so, often, that’s why she stays.
I’ll have more to say about this tomorrow, before the new episode on Sunday. For now though, if you haven’t been watching Big Little Lies, get on it. This show is doing more for Alexander Skarsgard’s career than Tarzan ever could.
http://www.laineygossip.com/Alexa-C...sgard-photographed-together-in-New-York/46613
Hi, Moo. Sending thoughts and prayers to you and your fellow countrymen/women.
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I am not so sure they were broken up on is birthday. They were spotted in a restaurant in NY a couple weeks after his birthday and she was attending all the Tarzan premieres with him a few weeks before. Dont know how they work their relationship. Perhaps she gets overwhelmed with so many people around her? Dont know if she is from a big family herself. Though I am sure Skarsgards would speak English and not swedish around her to make her more comfortable but who knows.
Lainey, Alex hater, has turned into an Alex lover because of his turn on BLL which she loves:
Alexa & Alex together in New York
It’s been a while since Alexa Chung and Alexander Skarsgardhave been photographed together. Which is why so many people assumed that they’d broken up. Here they are today in New York, together. Another example of how not being photographed together sometimes doesn’t mean anything. Like the time it happened with Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes and then, after it was reported that they were over, they went and had a baby.
Anyway, Alexa and Alex, still a thing.
But that’s really not the thing to be talking about when we’re talking right now about Alexander Skargard, is it? Not if you watch Big Little Lies. He is EXCELLENT in Big Little Lies. The best he’s ever been, like so many other members of the cast. Perry is not one-dimensional. You saw that when he and Celeste went to therapy together, his admission that he feels insecure, that (in his mind) she makes him feel inadequate. You saw it last week when he wept at the airport. Yes, of course, he’s a controlling, manipulative *******. But it comes from somewhere. Perry is written so that we understand what that is – and that’s not to excuse his behaviour, of course not, but to give it context, to make it real. Real because it happens all the time, in real life, in real homes, every day. And so, often, that’s why she stays.
I’ll have more to say about this tomorrow, before the new episode on Sunday. For now though, if you haven’t been watching Big Little Lies, get on it. This show is doing more for Alexander Skarsgard’s career than Tarzan ever could.
http://www.laineygossip.com/Alexa-C...sgard-photographed-together-in-New-York/46613
Hi, Moo. Sending thoughts and prayers to you and your fellow countrymen/women.
Ah, Lainey, such a fickle person. I guess being years removed from KB has finally worked on her.
He spent August in Sweden, without her. And then a few days later after his birthday on the 25th was in NYC by Labor Day weekend. She was in NYC by Labor Day as well, and they were never spotted together. So yeah, they were probably broken up then, even if was a short break up.
Considering she has a decent sized family, tends to hang out with large groups of people like he does, has a family background that's not English, and has spent her adult life travelling around the world where she doesn't speak the language, it's odd. Also, they've been together for 2 years, take some Swedish lessons if that's the issue. And yes, his family speaks English.
It's working for them, but it's still weird.
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How Nicole Kidman, David E. Kelley, and Others Prepared for Big Little Lies’ Domestic Violence Story Line
By Maria Elena Fernandez
Nicole Kidman is having a hard time shaking her Big Little Lies character. Nine months after production ended, the Oscar winner and first-time TV star’s voice quavers when discussing the filming of Celeste’s violent and highly sexual marriage to Perry (Alexander Skarsgård). “I feel weird talking about it,” she says over the phone from the Philadelphia set of Untouchable. “I’m not comfortable because I feel like I want the work to speak for itself, and I don’t like dissecting it too much. It’s one of the hardest roles I’ve had to talk about because I’m still very raw about it. It’s weird.”
Not when you consider the intensity of Celeste and Perry’s story line. From controlling Celeste’s schedule to pushing her around, grabbing her forcefully, and beating her, Perry is a classic abuser. And yet Celeste is, on some level, addicted to her husband’s rage and the sexual energy it unleashes between them, adding gray areas to an alarming domestic situation not usually examined in this way on television.
“The intention was to see how complex it is: to show how people lie about it, what it feels to go through it, and how painful it can be for the woman, who is the victim in this case,” Big Little Lies director Jean-Marc Vallée said. “But [writer David E. Kelley] and I and all of our partners thought, Well, what if we try to care for this guy too? He is the perpetrator of the violence, but he is aware of it and sincerely wants to get rid of his demons. That’s why I think you wonder and go, My God, I see. I see. There’s a little spark of hope here and there. I wanted to try to touch people’s hearts.”
In this past Sunday night’s episode, “Once Bitten,” Perry attacks Celeste after he sees their kids’ toys strewn around their apartment. He beats her, almost suffocates her, then has sex with her, most of which the viewer learns as Celeste remembers it. “After we shot some of the really, really violent scenes, I was in a lot of pain myself. My body was,” recalls Kidman, who’s also an executive producer on the series. Except for one scene in the finale, which airs April 2, where a body double was used to help choreograph a fight, Kidman and Skarsgård filmed all of the violence themselves. “It was very strange. It wasn’t a good feeling,” she says. “But women go through this so I wanted to tap into the truth of it, and I wanted it to be as real as it could be. Afterwards I would just be quiet. I would go home and be quiet.”
Vallée purposefully let the violent scenes linger. “I wanted it to feel like, whoa, you don’t belong there,” he said. “You’re witnessing something that is hurting you and is tough. We rarely cut because I want to show what’s great about the storytelling and the acting.”
Celeste and Perry’s explosive marriage originated in Liane Moriarty’s best seller of the same name. Kelley, who adapted the novel for HBO, said he can relate to Kidman’s discomfort because he found it equally difficult to write those scenes. “My process is that I go into that world, so I’m in that room when things are going on in my mind,” he said. “Jean-Marc and I did a lot of research, as did Nicole. We knew this was delicate material, and we wanted to treat it with the seriousness and the responsibility that it merited. But there’s no question, when you’re in that place, mentally, disturbing is the operative word.”
Exploring domestic violence through the lens of a gorgeous, upper-class couple was also an atypical way of approaching the story. “Most often, depictions of abuse go to situations that are rough-and-tumble and treat the abuse as if it’s just endemic to that way of life — like, that guy hits his wife because he never had anything,” says Robin Weigert, who plays therapist Dr. Amanda Reisman. “So right from the get-go, the idea that this level of abuse could exist within such a totally bucolic setting — that’s novel in terms of depictions I’ve seen. The way Nicole is playing the character, when she’s out in public, there’s this veil of sadness or mystery that other people might read as part of her mystique. You don’t realize what pain is there. The idea that somebody can be so visible, and so the object of envy and harbor secrets like this, is important. It gives us a way to recognize the potential for this to be anywhere.”
Kelley gave the couple’s narrative an added dimension by expanding the role of Dr. Reisman. At first, the couple goes together, but Celeste continues the meetings in secret by herself. In “Once Bitten,” Dr. Reisman finally cuts through Celeste’s denial with three syllables: “He hurts you.” Later in the session, she pushes further and coaxes Celeste to admit she is sometimes afraid for her life, which Kidman acknowledges wordlessly.
“Those scenes were long on the page, and people weren’t moving,” Kelley says. “It was so internal — I remember seeing the dailies and I was so stunned by Nicole’s work in those scenes. I know I had written the words on the page, and a lot of them are in the book, but when I watched the dailies, I was holding my breath: What’s going to happen now? The fear, the ambiguity, the clinging to hope, that was all on her face.”
Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, who have separately spearheaded female-driven projects through their respective production companies, had been looking to work together when mutual friend Bruna Papandrea, an executive producer on the series, brought up optioning Big Little Lies. They loved the idea, and soon Kidman was meeting with Moriarty in Australia. It was the author who asked that Witherspoon play Madeline and Kidman take on Celeste.
“I suppose Celeste was the most natural fit for me,” Kidman says. “She has that particular way of being which is very quiet and watchful, and she’s more of a voyeur when she’s out in public. She can’t really have deep intimacy with anybody because of what’s going on at home, and she knows it. But one thing that was very important to Liane is that Celeste fights back. It’s a very important part of her nature, and it’s a huge part of her guilt.”
When it came to casting for Perry, Kidman said Skarsgård was her first choice. “I wanted him badly!” she laughs. “I was like come on please, HBO, please! They had a relationship with him already [working on True Blood]. He has the ability to hold you and pull you in, but he also breaks down. He has that fragility as well as the dominance.” Besides, Kidman added, Skarsgård had something else that made him more appealing than other actors. “He is obviously very tall which is really, really helpful for me,” she explains. “It’s not often that I look small. So physically he’s very dominating as well, which is frightening, but I take him on.”
In Sunday’s episode, “Burning Love,” viewers will see just what Kidman means. “It’s very sad, but it’s so great that amidst all of the entertainment value of this show, you can still tap into some topical things that are hopefully really truthful because it’s not gratuitous or exploitative,” she says. “It’s a very real part of this relationship, and the many that it mirrors in the world, that Celeste feels she needs to protect him.”
http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/big-little-liess-domestic-violence-storyline-explained.html
So he was first choice. That makes me happy, even though Perry's an abusive a-hole, that she, and they, thought that he had the acting talent to do this, and hold his own.
By Maria Elena Fernandez
Nicole Kidman is having a hard time shaking her Big Little Lies character. Nine months after production ended, the Oscar winner and first-time TV star’s voice quavers when discussing the filming of Celeste’s violent and highly sexual marriage to Perry (Alexander Skarsgård). “I feel weird talking about it,” she says over the phone from the Philadelphia set of Untouchable. “I’m not comfortable because I feel like I want the work to speak for itself, and I don’t like dissecting it too much. It’s one of the hardest roles I’ve had to talk about because I’m still very raw about it. It’s weird.”
Not when you consider the intensity of Celeste and Perry’s story line. From controlling Celeste’s schedule to pushing her around, grabbing her forcefully, and beating her, Perry is a classic abuser. And yet Celeste is, on some level, addicted to her husband’s rage and the sexual energy it unleashes between them, adding gray areas to an alarming domestic situation not usually examined in this way on television.
“The intention was to see how complex it is: to show how people lie about it, what it feels to go through it, and how painful it can be for the woman, who is the victim in this case,” Big Little Lies director Jean-Marc Vallée said. “But [writer David E. Kelley] and I and all of our partners thought, Well, what if we try to care for this guy too? He is the perpetrator of the violence, but he is aware of it and sincerely wants to get rid of his demons. That’s why I think you wonder and go, My God, I see. I see. There’s a little spark of hope here and there. I wanted to try to touch people’s hearts.”
In this past Sunday night’s episode, “Once Bitten,” Perry attacks Celeste after he sees their kids’ toys strewn around their apartment. He beats her, almost suffocates her, then has sex with her, most of which the viewer learns as Celeste remembers it. “After we shot some of the really, really violent scenes, I was in a lot of pain myself. My body was,” recalls Kidman, who’s also an executive producer on the series. Except for one scene in the finale, which airs April 2, where a body double was used to help choreograph a fight, Kidman and Skarsgård filmed all of the violence themselves. “It was very strange. It wasn’t a good feeling,” she says. “But women go through this so I wanted to tap into the truth of it, and I wanted it to be as real as it could be. Afterwards I would just be quiet. I would go home and be quiet.”
Vallée purposefully let the violent scenes linger. “I wanted it to feel like, whoa, you don’t belong there,” he said. “You’re witnessing something that is hurting you and is tough. We rarely cut because I want to show what’s great about the storytelling and the acting.”
Celeste and Perry’s explosive marriage originated in Liane Moriarty’s best seller of the same name. Kelley, who adapted the novel for HBO, said he can relate to Kidman’s discomfort because he found it equally difficult to write those scenes. “My process is that I go into that world, so I’m in that room when things are going on in my mind,” he said. “Jean-Marc and I did a lot of research, as did Nicole. We knew this was delicate material, and we wanted to treat it with the seriousness and the responsibility that it merited. But there’s no question, when you’re in that place, mentally, disturbing is the operative word.”
Exploring domestic violence through the lens of a gorgeous, upper-class couple was also an atypical way of approaching the story. “Most often, depictions of abuse go to situations that are rough-and-tumble and treat the abuse as if it’s just endemic to that way of life — like, that guy hits his wife because he never had anything,” says Robin Weigert, who plays therapist Dr. Amanda Reisman. “So right from the get-go, the idea that this level of abuse could exist within such a totally bucolic setting — that’s novel in terms of depictions I’ve seen. The way Nicole is playing the character, when she’s out in public, there’s this veil of sadness or mystery that other people might read as part of her mystique. You don’t realize what pain is there. The idea that somebody can be so visible, and so the object of envy and harbor secrets like this, is important. It gives us a way to recognize the potential for this to be anywhere.”
Kelley gave the couple’s narrative an added dimension by expanding the role of Dr. Reisman. At first, the couple goes together, but Celeste continues the meetings in secret by herself. In “Once Bitten,” Dr. Reisman finally cuts through Celeste’s denial with three syllables: “He hurts you.” Later in the session, she pushes further and coaxes Celeste to admit she is sometimes afraid for her life, which Kidman acknowledges wordlessly.
“Those scenes were long on the page, and people weren’t moving,” Kelley says. “It was so internal — I remember seeing the dailies and I was so stunned by Nicole’s work in those scenes. I know I had written the words on the page, and a lot of them are in the book, but when I watched the dailies, I was holding my breath: What’s going to happen now? The fear, the ambiguity, the clinging to hope, that was all on her face.”
Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, who have separately spearheaded female-driven projects through their respective production companies, had been looking to work together when mutual friend Bruna Papandrea, an executive producer on the series, brought up optioning Big Little Lies. They loved the idea, and soon Kidman was meeting with Moriarty in Australia. It was the author who asked that Witherspoon play Madeline and Kidman take on Celeste.
“I suppose Celeste was the most natural fit for me,” Kidman says. “She has that particular way of being which is very quiet and watchful, and she’s more of a voyeur when she’s out in public. She can’t really have deep intimacy with anybody because of what’s going on at home, and she knows it. But one thing that was very important to Liane is that Celeste fights back. It’s a very important part of her nature, and it’s a huge part of her guilt.”
When it came to casting for Perry, Kidman said Skarsgård was her first choice. “I wanted him badly!” she laughs. “I was like come on please, HBO, please! They had a relationship with him already [working on True Blood]. He has the ability to hold you and pull you in, but he also breaks down. He has that fragility as well as the dominance.” Besides, Kidman added, Skarsgård had something else that made him more appealing than other actors. “He is obviously very tall which is really, really helpful for me,” she explains. “It’s not often that I look small. So physically he’s very dominating as well, which is frightening, but I take him on.”
In Sunday’s episode, “Burning Love,” viewers will see just what Kidman means. “It’s very sad, but it’s so great that amidst all of the entertainment value of this show, you can still tap into some topical things that are hopefully really truthful because it’s not gratuitous or exploitative,” she says. “It’s a very real part of this relationship, and the many that it mirrors in the world, that Celeste feels she needs to protect him.”
http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/big-little-liess-domestic-violence-storyline-explained.html
So he was first choice. That makes me happy, even though Perry's an abusive a-hole, that she, and they, thought that he had the acting talent to do this, and hold his own.
I'm doing fine BC, busier than a ho on penny Friday
hope all is well with you sweetie
Undoubtedly she would be flashing that hand, just was feeling a little saucy with the intrigue! Sugar, I am sending hugs your way
I need to hoof by more often.Loving BLL, our boy looks ah-mazing
Thanks, Buckeye & Vamp! Besides being able to enjoy Alex in a quality role, another thing I'm really appreciating is how the show is encouraging a dialogue about the complexities of domestic violence.
HQs of Alex out and about in NYC today (March 24, 2017):
Source: AlexanderSkarsgardOnline Tumblr
HQs of Alex out and about in NYC today (March 24, 2017):
Source: AlexanderSkarsgardOnline Tumblr
I'm doing fine BC, busier than a ho on penny Friday
Undoubtedly she would be flashing that hand, just was feeling a little saucy with the intrigue! Sugar, I am sending hugs your way
Loving BLL, our boy looks ah-mazing
You, saucy? Never!
Thanks, Buckeye & Vamp! Besides being able to enjoy Alex in a quality role, another thing I'm really appreciating is how the show is encouraging a dialogue about the complexities of domestic violence.
HQs of Alex out and about in NYC today (March 24, 2017):
Source: AlexanderSkarsgardOnline Tumblr
There have been a lot of really really excellent articles focusing on the domestic abuse storyline. Jane's rape trauma storyline hasn't got quite that attention, but it's still probably very surprising for people who thought that BLL was going to be mindless fluff.
He's been papped three days in a row?! He's not been papped since September, and now we get all this. I know he hates it, but we've been lacking in SkarsPhotos since WOE promo finished. And is that yet another different shirt? I'd figured that he'd wear the same thing for the entire trip!
Thanks Santress for the new pics! Three sets of pics in three days!! We all knew he was going to wear the same thing everyday hahaha. At least he changes the shirt 
I wanted to add this pic as a stand alone. I always forget how big Alex is until he is pictured next to "regular height" people. I have read a couple times that even though Alex says he is 6'4", he is actually much taller in real life. Gustaf's height is listed as 6'4" too and he looks a good couple inches shorter than Alex.
I wanted to add this pic as a stand alone. I always forget how big Alex is until he is pictured next to "regular height" people. I have read a couple times that even though Alex says he is 6'4", he is actually much taller in real life. Gustaf's height is listed as 6'4" too and he looks a good couple inches shorter than Alex.
Thanks Santress for the new pics! Three sets of pics in three days!! We all knew he was going to wear the same thing everyday hahaha. At least he changes the shirt
I wanted to add this pic as a stand alone. I always forget how big Alex is until he is pictured next to "regular height" people. I have read a couple times that even though Alex says he is 6'4", he is actually much taller in real life. Gustaf's height is listed as 6'4" too and he looks a good couple inches shorter than Alex.
He's wearing different pants each day as well, it's shocking!
As for his height, he's variously listed between 6'4" 1/2 and 6'4", I wouldn't be surprised if he's closer to 6'5" Either way if I were to stand next to him I'd fit under his armpit.
Laura Dern posted a BLL prmo on her IG:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSCgsIHAqL3/?taken-by=lauradern
How to Get Alexander Skarsgård's Ultra-Stylish, Easy-to-Pull-Off Look
Sometimes simple really is best!
http://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/advice/amp54088/alexander-skarsgard-shop-sweater-style/
A little article on Alex's style on the first day he was spotted in NYC.
Sometimes simple really is best!
http://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/advice/amp54088/alexander-skarsgard-shop-sweater-style/
A little article on Alex's style on the first day he was spotted in NYC.