Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgårdis a Swedish actor. He is best known for his roles as vampire Eric Northman on the HBO series True Blood, Meekus in Zoolander and Brad Colbert in the HBO miniseries Generation Kill. He is the son of Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth25 August 1976
CityVallingby, Sweden
CountrySweden
clothes sweden
I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.
stars children actors
I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!
love-is way naked
Why do I love being naked? Because I was born that way?
real mean actors
If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. You don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.
thinking car four
When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
real levels deeper
You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
crazy ducks interesting
As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.
hipster style
A hipster is someone who's very aware of his style.
girl crazy hero
What intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy for themselves to go, "All right. There's the good guy, there's the bad guy, there's the girl. Okay, I get it now." But life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both. So any time the hero does something I'm not crazy about, or the bad guy does something I can relate to, I'll find it more interesting.
couple two dancing
When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.
character play darkness
All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
lunch yesterday people
When I'm on a plane, people know where I'm going before I even know where I'm going. People know where you had lunch yesterday, or who you had lunch with. So, trying to avoid sharing everything with everyone is my way of keeping something private in my life.
character scripts steps
Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.
people actors able
It was such an amazing experience to be able to spend nine days on a boat with these Greenpeace people. Some of them were scientists and some were crew members working on the ship. Just to hear their stories, like what drew them to Greenpeace in the first place and what they've been through. Every single second of the day they work to save the planet, which makes me as an actor feel quite insignificant.