For Alexander Skarsgard, being one of many sexiest actors in Hollywood hasn’t all the time been a blessing.
The Emmy winner lately informed The Sunday Times that each one the main focus on his bodily look throughout the early components of his careers had a adverse influence on the alternatives of roles he was being provided.
“I do not actually know if that was the explanation I wasn’t getting roles,” Skarsgard stated. “Starting out in Sweden, there was stuff about being tall and blond. But most individuals listed here are tall and blond.
“Still, after my first job, I used to be on a stupid ‘horny hunky hot listing’ after which individuals did not take me critically.”
Skarsgard added: “If you need characters with depth, however have been labelled ‘a dude who takes his shirt off,’ you are not going to get these presents.”
Although Skarsgard had been performing in Swedish movies for over a decade and appeared in Hollywood motion pictures akin to Ben Stiller’s 2001 comedy Zoolander, it wasn’t till his collection common function on HBO’s vampire drama True Blood that Skarsgard beginning changing into a family identify within the United States.
The actor typically appeared shirtless because the vampire Eric Northman, a personality he performed for 76 episodes.
Skarsgard will probably be shirtless on display once more for his upcoming function as a Viking prince in Robert Eggers’ tenth century epic The Northman.
Eggers revealed earlier this 12 months: “The quantity of self-discipline that Alex put into this function is loopy. He remodeled his physique extra wildly than he did in Tarzan.”
The Northman co-star Ralph Ineson informed NME final 12 months of Skarsgard: “He’s made himself appear like some sort of monster for the half, the dedication’s unimaginable … he is obtained his shirt off – and also you assume, ‘My god, that is not a bodybuilder doing a scene, that is like a correct severe actor!'”
