skarsjoy:NEW Alexander Skarsgård photo shoot and interview with Interview Magazine! (issu
skarsjoy:NEW Alexander Skarsgård photo shoot and interview with Interview Magazine! (issue 541, March 2022) Lots about The Northman, their Melancholia days, The Kingdom Exodus & more! Alexander Skarsgård Talks to Kirsten Dunst About the Pleasure and the Pain By Kirsten DunstPhotographed by Juergen TellerStyled by Harry LambertFebruary 15, 2022 Alexander Skarsgård has excelled at playing a manipulative vampire, an abusive husband, and the literal harbinger of disease and destruction in a pandemic-ravaged world. And yet, he’s still good for a laugh. You don’t grow up the model-handsome scion of a legendary Swedish acting family without having a sense of humor about yourself. Think about his crack-up cameos as a vacant male model in Zoolander, an overgrown college grad in Eastbound & Down, and a mulletted schlub in On Becoming a God in Central Florida. But despite his reputation for just going for it, at 45 years old, he continues to surprise. Last year, he stole scenes on Succession as Lukas Mattson, a tech bro so unlikable you couldn’t help but love him. And now, six years after he tamed the jungle in The Legend of Tarzan, Skarsgård is returning to the shirtless-action-hero genre in the Robert Eggers-directed viking saga The Northman, a grueling production that, as he tells his Melancholia costar Kirsten Dunst, was no laughing matter. KIRSTEN DUNST: Where are you in life right now? ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD: I’m in Copenhagen. DUNST: With your family? SKARSGÅRD: Yeah. Well, I’m heading back to Stockholm next week. I was actually working with our dear friend Lars [von Trier] again. Keep reading -- source link