#Characteristicallyaskars

[skarsjoy]

Happy Birthday, 🎉 @characteristicallyaskars 🥳

Laura, I hope you have a lovely birthday and fabulous year because you are one of the best people I've ever known! Thank you for your friendship and patience and all of your generous photos you have given to the Alex fandom. You are truly a gift! 💜 Jody

[askarsjustsoswedish]

Happy Birthday @characteristicallyaskars Wishing you a very happy and enjoyable birthday, and a wonderful year to come. You are the sweetest and kindest friend anyone could ever wish for, and I am very fortunate to know you. Happiness always, love and hugs, Suzanne 🤗😘🎁🎂🎈🤗😘💚

[henricavyll]

Happy Birthday Laura !!! I hope you’re enjoying your day. Thank you for being such a good friend all these years on here. Best wishes to you!!! @characteristicallyaskars

[favescandis]

Stellan Skarsgård: ‘I don’t give advice to my children’

New interview for The Guardian dated January 18, 2020 by James McMahon

The actor, 68, on dreaming of being a diplomat, smashing telephones with skill and the days before Marvel ruled the world

I intended to become a diplomat. That was my dream. I didn’t take acting seriously until I was 16 and got a role in a Swedish show that made me extremely famous right away. There were screaming girls, all that stuff. I’d never had any girl take an interest in me before that. Suddenly being a diplomat didn’t seem half as attractive as it had done.

My heroes growing up were politicians. The main one was Dag Hammarskjöld, a Swedish politician who was the secretary general of the United Nations. He was a real hero for peace to many of my generation. I idolised him.

I was lucky to have smart parents. What they were interested in they’d talk about at home, so topics like the civil rights movement were common currency at the dinner table. From an early age we talked about black history and the Holocaust. It was a humanistic upbringing. I’ve tried to give my children a similar existence.

It doesn’t matter to me that my sons are actors. I had no great wish for them to follow me into the profession. I was, at first, worried when they decided to. It’s hard to become an actor when your father is one, because there’s a big shadow to break out of. Thankfully they all quickly found their footing and superseded me!

I don’t give advice to my children who act. I give them support. If you give them advice and they achieve something then they don’t feel like they achieved it. Also, if you do give them advice and they don’t achieve something, then they can say: “It’s all your fucking fault.”

It’s pretty cool being part of the Marvel Universe. When I signed up for my part in Thor, Marvel hadn’t yet taken over the world. You have to sign up for five films and at the first meeting I asked: “Is there really any money in these comic book things?” The whole table just froze and looked at me like I was a fucking idiot.

Scorsese was right [when he said the success of a franchise like Marvel was edging out new stories being told]. But the problem isn’t Marvel and the problem isn’t Netflix. The problem is the concentration of ownership. Big financiers have taken over everything. The only films that get made are the big movies, because the financiers demand 10% of their capital. It’s stupefying.

It takes skill to break a telephone properly. It helps to channel your anger, but you need some technique so that you avoid smashing up your hands along with the phone. When we were filming Chernobyl I took three attempts, but they were all pretty good. I’m skilled at breaking telephones.

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is in cinemas from 31 January, 2020.

Thanks to @characteristicallyaskars for the find! Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Contour by Getty Images 

[beaufortplace]

characteristicallyaskars ha respondido a tu publicación:I would like to recommend you some great shows...

Breaking bread? LMAO. Is it about Walter White and his white bread empire?! You get the best anons!

And the thing is that it's a real show, hahahaha. But I thought the same as you, lol

[askarsjustsoswedish]

Flashing gifs // @characteristicallyaskars Wishing one of the sweetest Alex fans, and a treasured friend, a very happy birthday, and a wonderful year to come. Thanks for all the lovely chats, and keeping me hanging on, lol. Have a perfect birthday, love and hugs, Suzanne 🥰🥳💐🎁🎂🎈🤗💕💚

[askarsjustsoswedish]

Happy Birthday @characteristicallyaskars Wishing a very dear friend a birthday, and year, full of love and happiness. You are very kind to everyone and you share all your photo finds so generously. I am very fortunate to know you as true friend, I can never thank you enough for all the support you have given me this year Laura. Wishing you happiness always, love Suzanne 😘🎉🎁🍰😘💚

[askarsjustsoswedish]

@characteristicallyaskars wishing you a birthday, and year, full of love and happiness. You do so much for the AS fandom but mostly I'm fortunate to know you as a very dear and valued friend. Have fun, stay safe, love Suzanne  💕😘💕 🎁💚😘

[askarsjustsoswedish]

@characteristicallyaskars wishing you a birthday full of love and wonderful surprises. You do so much for the AS fandom but mostly I’m so fortunate to know you as a very dear and valued friend, happiness always, lv and hugs, Suzanne 💕😘💕 🎁💚😘

[askarsjustsoswedish]

@characteristicallyaskars Wishing a very sweet and generous Alex fan, and a deeply treasured and valued friend, a birthday full of love and wonderful surprises. May the coming year be equally as enjoyable too, love and hugs, Suzanne 💕😘💕

[henricavyll]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA!!! I hope you have a wonderful day.   Thank you for being a good friend and always being there when I needed help. I wish you the best birthday!  @characteristicallyaskars

[askarsjustsoswedish]

tumblr crushes challenge: where you post your own favorite blogs to spread positivity and get your amazing blogger-friends some more followers!

tagged by: by the wonderful @henricavyll 

in no particular order: @adrichi @alexanderssskarsbrow @alexanderskarsgarded @askarsismybb @bldskr @characteristicallyaskars @deesdiaries @deniblogginstuff @hsm7 @justwandering-neverlost @mametupa @mycelebrityfantasy @naima13 @skarsgardaddict @skarsjoy @stillmisseric @uxitauniverse

rules are simple — if you’re tagged, show off your tumblr crushes and tag your post #mytumblrcrushes and of course, you don’t have to, but why pass up an opportunity to make someone’s day with this?

[skarsjoy]

Happy Birthday to fabulous @characteristicallyaskars 🥳🌈🎉😻

I hope you have an incredible day and year that follows. You are without a doubt one of the nicest and most patient people I know and such a treasured friend. Talking Alex photos and films with you is one of my biggest joys in life. You make every day better. You deserve the best in life! 💫

[skarsjoy]

Happy Birthday, to my fabulous friend @characteristicallyaskars

Laura, I hope you have a fantastic birthday and a year that is filled with love and fun adventures! You are a total blessing to me and this fandom would be so lost without your ASkars Photo Queen expertise. 

[skarsjoy]

Happy Birthday to the fabulous @characteristicallyaskars Wishing you a wonderful day & year that follows! 🥳💕

[skarsjoy]

Wishing my fabulous friend @characteristicallyaskars a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY and joyous year thereafter!

You are an exceptional person and a total asset to this fandom. I hope this year brings you delightful happy surprises and everything you deserve (& more!)