skarsjoy:NEW! Alexander Skarsgård on the cover of GQ Hype Alexander Skarsgård Is the Bad
skarsjoy:NEW! Alexander Skarsgård on the cover of GQ Hype Alexander Skarsgård Is the Bad Guy NowAfter playing icy villains in Big Little Lies and Succession and a homicidal Viking in arthouse blockbuster The Northman, the Scandinavian actor has transcended his early beefcake days. BY TOM LAMONTPHOTOGRAPHY BY LUC COIFFAITApril 13, 2022 If Alexander Skarsgård were to write the book of his 40s so far, he says, he would give it the title Stale Mud and Dry Tears. The Stockholm-born actor, who is 46, has spent as many years as he cares to remember helping to realize an ambitious blockbuster about vikings called The Northman, which finally arrives in movie theaters this week. Over many trips to the gym in New York and in Stockholm (the two cities between which Skarsgård splits his time) he thickened his 6’ 3” physique to portray a hulking viking warrior. He had to maintain the extra weight and shape through months of pandemic delays, before a shoot that mostly took place on an open mountain-top in Ireland. The Northman’s director Robert Eggers favors long, single-camera action shots — and Skarsgård, often near nude in the chill, caked in artificial blood and real filth, forever trying to remember which stuntman to pretend to murder next, was pushed to the limits of his endurance. Keep reading -- source link
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