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
dark thinking might
I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.
artist brave mind
A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.
thinking evil world
Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
character collaboration actors
I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.
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.
real levels deeper
You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
scary challenges done
For me, creatively, I'd suffocate if I played the same thing, over and over again. I want challenges. I want to sit down with a director and be like, "I've never done this before, but it's going to be exciting. It's scary, but really thrilling, so let's do it!"
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.
fun good-times having-a-good-time
If you are with someone who is awesome and having a good time, you can sit at a bus station and still have fun.
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!
lunch people gone
Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.
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.
class free-education people
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.
june degrees sitting
There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.