#gustaf skarsgard

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Valter was playing a card game at Christmas and his family was a question.

Would have liked to know the answer according to HIM (aka the truth) but he didn’t post that.

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Sweet pic of Gustaf and Valter

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Floki, The Shipbuilder <3

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Bill Skarsgård in exclusive interview: "I'm starting on the pain"

Nosferatu current Bill Skarsgård on anemic roles, Mongolian throat singing and comfortable clothes.

•full article at the link and under the cut. translated from swedish to english by google.

Do you still feel doubt before every acting role?

- Yes, there is a real wrestling match before each project and the wrestling match becomes more aggressive the more extreme character I play. This role, as Count Orlok in Nosferatu , is the most extreme that I have done. It was a transformation into something so far beyond myself that I didn't know if I could handle it. I wasn't sure if I could go that far, let alone make it true. There were a lot of nerves and a lot of self-doubt. But I never feel it when we film. I work hard during the preparations to be as free as possible once we start. Furthermore, Count Orlok is a character who is not uncertain for a second throughout the film. He just oozes confidence, control and dominance.

The voice is very prominent in the role – how did you come up with it?

- I worked with an opera singer to get my voice as deep as possible. My brother Gustaf visited the filming and sat in one of the chairs in front of a monitor with headphones. Our mics were on between takes and all he heard was a dark roar. (Bill leans back on the sofa and imitates a monstrous half-singing)

- I was sitting and doing some kind of Mongolian throat singing to activate the voice and Gustaf said: "What the hell are they doing carpentry here?"

Haha.

- It was a pitch black hole to dive into this character's psyche. He is an occult magician, a 350-year-old vampire, trying to enter his perspective on the world and the universe was quite dark.

Do the roles rub off on you?

- Yes, you spend twelve hours a day in some form of madness and illusion. In relation to this monster, it was impossible not to discolor.

What stuck?

- Some things that are far too personal to tell, haha. I was very grateful when we finished the project and I got to leave it. Then it felt like Orlok's claws finally released my soul.

Is it usually like that?

- After working on the role of Pennywise in It, I had very strange dreams that were about my relationship with the character and that it was me . There was something very revealing about that role. But with Orlok it was different when we finished filming: when he left me it was just freezing cold, it was dead silent. I am very grateful for that.

Acting is said to be no recipe for personal happiness.

- I don't think acting is good for mental stability. Having said that, this is also what I'm starting on, I'm starting on the pain a little bit.

Understands.

- Maybe it will get better over the years. As a young actor, it's more about life and death and you almost end up killing yourself. I can look at my dad who has a healthy attitude towards acting. I was talking to him about this recently actually. He talked about his role in Godafton, Herr Wallenberg . It was a film where he almost killed himself. After that he didn't film for two years and when he returned he found a healthier approach to work. At the same time, I don't know how many happy people I meet overall. Everyone has their own shit that they go through and we live in very strange times. It is confused and messy in many ways.

You yourself have become the father of a young child – when do you most often call your own father for life advice today: family life or acting?

- He has eight children, so there is a lot to learn from his fatherhood, haha. Things to do and not to do. Then it is special when we are a family where so many people have the same job, I never feel alone that way. You have people who understand what you are going through.

You dress smart and recently fronted a campaign for H&M - do you have a fashion interest?

- I'm not a person who thinks out outfits for every day, or goes looking for bargains in vintage stores. My expression is not clothes in that way. But I think it's fun with fashion and clothes can also be an aid as an actor to get into characters. My own style is not so "peacock", I just want to wear comfortable clothes and not have to think too much about it. But I am more and more exposed to the world of fashion and can see both the charm and the expression in it. You can be creative in many different ways.

Your Nosferatu co-star – Willem Dafoe – has attended screenings for Prada: Is it something you are keen on?

- I wouldn't mind that, he has almost become a face for the entire brand. Prada did a show with Tim Roth, Adrien Brody, Gary Oldman, Willem Dafoe and all those cool actors. It was a ball, I think.

Today you belong to one of our biggest international actors - what is the strangest place where you have been recognized?

- I've probably been recognized on every continent I've been to. Maybe not Asia, but I haven't been there for a long time, so it's probably big in Japan that remains. I started acting in Sweden and thought it was nice to leave the country and avoid being recognized. At that time, it was enough to go to Denmark and I was completely anonymous. I hardly remember what it was like anymore. At the same time, it is part of the job. I live in Södermalm and here nobody raises an eyebrow if I pass, it's quite nice. It's my South and I run into my childhood friends all the time, so I'm not anonymous, but I feel like Bill.

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Day Three of Valter & Gustaf Skarsgård out in Norway for Greenpeace’s Stop Deep Sea Sea Mining Campaign (02/10/24) via Instagram Stories

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Gustaf, it’s been a while.