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Alex with  his brother, Sam, Adrian Kempe and friends at the Sweden vs. Switzerland World Cup game (July 3, 2018, Saint Petersburg, Russia).

Sources: Originals via:

1. adriankempe instagram/insta stories (x, x, x) : “Leningrad Cowboys.”

2. mariokempe20 instagram (x): “We drive!“

3. mrlubwama insta stories (x, x)

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so apparently Alexander Skarsgård is in St. Petersburg today supporting his national football team. 😍

what a nice surprise, even though I was hoping he would come for playoffs.

now I wonder if there’s any chance he’ll come to Moscow. 🤞

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Eh.... moja słabość do niemieckich aktorów. Thomas Kretschmann w Pianiście i w Głowie w chmurach mnie zachwycił i talentem aktorskim jak i urodą.

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The Skarsgårds at the “IT” Premiere on September 5th, 2017 in Hollywood, CA.

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Alexander Skarsgård thanks the ladies of “Big Little Lies” and his mother, My Skarsgård, after receiving the award for Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie at the 2017 Emmys. (x)

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Alexander Skarsgård as Perry Wright in @HBO’s Big Little Lies episode 01 “Somebody’s Dead” which aired Sunday, February 19, 2017.

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Mamy brąz!!!!

💜💜💜💜

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New Interview with Alex and Paul Rudd!

On the set of “Mute”: FILMSTARTS.de’s Interview with Alexander Skarsgård and Paul Rudd

By Helgard Haß

In Duncan Jones’ sci-fi thriller “Mute” Alexander Skarsgård plays the silent main character. Meanwhile, during our visit to the set, the actor was happy to have a little chat and answered questions, as did colleague Paul Rudd.

FILMSTARTS: Alex, is it strange to play a silent character?

Alexander Skarsgård: Yes, totally.

FILMSTARTS: How do you handle such a role?

Alexander Skarsgård: After two months of shooting I still have no idea. It is really fascinating. I’m a big fan of “Moon”, so I was thrilled with the prospect of working with Duncan before I even read the script. When I read it, I had no idea how to handle it. It was a bit scary because I first met Seyneb [Saleh], who plays my girlfriend in the movie, only three weeks before shooting began. I rehearsed a handful of scenes before and thought that I had a pretty good grip on the character. But when we improvised together as a test, it was terrible. It was extremely difficult for me to suppress my instinct to speak. Often I was completely out of the scene. That was pretty difficult.

FILMSTARTS: Can your character even make a sound?

Alexander Skarsgård: No. I talked to a specialist because I was wondering what kind of noise I could make. But when your vocal cords are cut, there’s nothing - even when coughing, the vocal cords are used. And when they are cut, it’s just air. In addition, Leo, my character interacts with many people who do not know him. There is no common past. He wanders through Berlin, looking for his girlfriend and interacting with strangers.

FILMSTARTS: Paul, how was it for you to watch this?

Paul Rudd: My first reaction was, what a happy guy - he does not have to remember a text at all … But dumbness is a challenge in its own right, which costs a lot of work.

FILMSTARTS: Can you tell us something about the surgeons?

Paul Rudd: They are good friends. They have established a life in Berlin. My character is a bit more restless than Justin’s [Theroux], which is more the Donald Sutherland-like counterpart to me. I find myself at the beginning of the film at a point where I try to change my situation and consider leaving the city, which turns out to be more difficult than expected.

FILMSTARTS: Alex, what about the physical demands compared to “Tarzan”?

Alexander Skarsgård: It’s a very physical role - but in spurts. He’s generally a very passive guy, but when he goes nuts, he gets violent.

FILMSTARTS: You tend to choose roles that require more from one than just memorizing the text. Do you like to be challenged as an actor?

Alexander Skarsgård: It’s fun when faced with a challenge. And it’s also good to be a bit scared. With Tarzan, I already had a lot of respect for the role and wondered how to do it. And here it is similar: how can it be interesting for 100 minutes if there is no dialogue, not even sign language? How do I wear this? It’s always fun when you enter the area that is a bit scary.

FILMSTARTS: How much can you tell us about Leo’s mission and his relationship with the surgeons - without giving too much away?

Alexander Skarsgård: He is looking for his girlfriend. The two have been together for about four months and one morning she disappears and he tries to find out what happened to her. She was quite emotional the night before and talked about many things, including leaving Berlin. So it’s not one hundred percent heroic, it’s also about the question: Did she break up with me? Did she just leave without saying goodbye? He relives moments of doubt, and on his way he also meets these two American ex-military doctors, surgeons who served in Kandahar during the war. After leaving Afghanistan, they are now in Berlin. I can not go into detail. The relationship would betray too much, but there is a strong connection.

Paul Rudd: Yeah, it’s complicated, and you do not really know what the relationship between the characters looks like, it’s being revealed bit by bit, but that’s the very nature of the movie. Who is friends with whom, who is good and who is evil? And what is going on here? It takes a while to understand what happens …

FILMSTARTS: Does it help that you know Justin well and have already worked with him?

Paul Rudd: Yes, absolutely. It’s great, because our characters have a common past and have known each other for quite some time, and the fact that Justin and I are doing likewise makes it easier. We get along very well and the fact that Justin and I have worked together on scripts has also proved useful.

FILMSTARTS: Does it matter if you’re on a set or filming in front of a green screen?

Alexander Skarsgård: It helps if you’re on a real set. With “Tarzan” we made quite a few green screen shots and sometimes we felt a bit ridiculous. But there you are again with the challenges - it was strange to have an emotional connection to a tennis ball, but also very interesting six months later to see how he was animated into a beautiful elephant. If you know the process, that is very exciting. But of course it’s great to shoot at a real location - like today in this amazing warehouse.

Paul Rudd: To a certain extent it certainly helps. It’s always interesting and cool to shoot in places you do not know. I’ve been to Berlin a few times but have never spent much time here and everywhere you work you get places you would never see. I would never be in this building where we are filming now and you can not help but feel part of the story in this city.

FILMSTARTS: A distinction is made between TV and movie film out of habit, but since services such as Amazon and Netflix have so many means and talents to throw in the field, the distinction has actually become obsolete, right?

Alexander Skarsgård: Yeah, I do not really think about it anymore. I shot the mini-series Big Little Lies with Jean-Marc Vallée for HBO in the spring of 2016 and it felt like shooting a movie. The stint was not like the old-school network television, but it was about twice as much time, we really enjoyed the scenes and had leisure to develop them. It was similar to “Generation Kill” - we had an unbelievable 20 days per episode! And today: If you just look at the directing and scripting talents that go in the direction of television, that’s phenomenal, and as an actor, you’re on the lookout for good writers and directors with whom you want to work and it does not make any difference whether it’s for Netflix, TV or cinema …

FILMSTARTS: What about working on the set? Do you feel that Netflix gives you more freedom?

Paul Rudd: My experience with Netflix has always been noninterference; I have already done some projects for them. But in the studio productions that I did, it was similar. It never felt like a guy in a suit was looking over our shoulders. Nobody told us what we could do and what we could not do. I think I’m in a very lucky position to work on studio films that allow us some freedom - freedoms that other productions do not get.

FILMSTARTS: Even with “Ant-Man”?

Paul Rudd: Yes. Peyton Reed likes to try a lot of different things and Marvel encourages and encourages that. And since I was able to have a say in the script, there were always ways to try things I wanted to do - and it all felt very much in common. Working for Marvel was a creative experience for me - more than I thought.

FILMSTARTS: Could you tell us something more about the Berlin of the future in the film?

Alexander Skarsgård: It’s layered - literally layered. The poorer people live in the streets or on the lower floors. And then it piled up, as if cubes or cylinders were stacked on top of each other. Rich people live in the clouds - over all the noise and dirt. It’s like a dystopian society, in the big corporations … I’ve just realized that’s exactly what the reality is. It’s basically what’s happening in the world anyway, and therefore not really dystopian. Corporations control everything. There is a group in the movie called Volkea, which is a hybrid of Volvo and Ikea. You subscribe to a “carrier” - from Volkea or another company - and then they provide you with everything - from food to medicine. But you also have to be loyal, because their people are out in the streets, almost completely dressed in paramilitary outfits. So it’s pretty depressing. But as I said, Duncan wrote that 13 years ago and now we are not far from seeing what’s going on in the world.

FILMSTARTS: What about humor in the film?

Paul Rudd: Yes, there certainly is. Actually, you always want to have a little humor. While I do not think the movie necessarily falls into the comedy genre, it does move across the spectrum of drama, sci-fi, humor and action, unlike anything I’ve ever read or worked on ,

“Mute” will be released on Netflix on February 23, 2018.

Sources: Helgard Haß for Filmstarts.de (x, x), Translation:  Google Translate + minor clean-up by ASN, Mute promotional photos: Filmstarts.de (x)

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NEW article on the acting Skarsgårds: Stellan, Alexander, Gustaf, Bill & Valter in Expressen Söndag (February 11, 2018)

So far, we have translation of the beginning & Alex’s part thanks to @littlebulletsucker. Does anyone want to translate the rest?

Keep reading for the article.

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