HBO – trailer.

The episode airing tomorrow night is entitled ‘Nothing but the Blood’ and Alexander Skarsgård’s role is as known by most that of vampire Eric Northman.

Sources: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1839681/true_blood_season_premiere_looking.html; http://www.hbo.com/trueblood/; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844441/episodes#season-2
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qufAFY7FL0U

See ”a” trailer here—

(And, ah yes, at 0:33 the smile is deadly, lol.)

Also, if you live in Sweden, the Generation Kill dvd box can be ordered or pre-ordered (if you want the cheaper one!) at www.discshop.se - I am currently investigating good sources to access Skarsgård’s Swedish movies etc if you happen to not live in Sweden, but most of the Swedish providers only take orders from Scandinavia. :/

video credit: usmc2110 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8seylbvSRDI

“It’s visual pornography. It’s Brilliant!”

Perez Hilton writes on his blog about Lady Gaga’s new music video “Paparazzi” by Jonas Åkerlund.
In it she makes-out with Hollywoods new darling Alexander Skarsgård. (end quote)

I know I’ve already brought this up a couple of days ago, but it still annoys me. There are so many positive things that could be written about Alexander Skarsgård’s work and the focus on vulgarity is just idiotic.

Well, finally!  Swedish Television will be airing the first season of True Blood sometime in the late summer months or early fall. Yeah, they’re current like that. I’m sure they will stick it in one of those wonderful time slots as well – like 1 a.m. Wednesday nigts. Canal +(plys) will be airing season two this fall. I’ll put up more specific times when either SVT or Canal + decides to post them.

The  Swedish Canal + website for True Blood can be found here: http://www2.canalplus.se/misc/trueblood/se/index.html

sources: http://svt.se/2.81995/1.1507378/true_blood; http://www.canalplus.se/1034.aspx
Image credit: http://iconsoffright.com/news/alexander-skarsgard.jpg

Scenes for the movie Puss will be filmed on Gotland for four weeks in the middle of August this year. The particular scenes in Gotland were originally scheduled to be filmed in 2008 but got delayed when director Johan Kling (Darling) decided to push the project up, at the time, indefinitely. It is unclear if Skarsgård is in any of the scenes that will be shot on Gotland, but the rescheduling of Kustateljén was reported in April and is probably unlikely to change again. Mainly because it will be demolished by the end of the year. Other scenes for the movie have been filmed during the spring, and the film will be distributed by Nordisk Film AB in Europe probably some time during 2010.

Quick facts: The original title of the movie was Trust Me, but it was later changed to Puss which means ‘Kiss’ in Swedish. It will star Alexander Skarsgård and his younger brother Gustaf Skarsgård in the same film together since: well, ever. It’s going to be interesting to see the dynamic between them on screen (if they even have any scenes together, hmm). Their characters have been described as perplexingly different from eachother which probably fits the style of film director Johan Kling wants to create very well. (I am kind of sad that he’s playing another 08-bastard though.) It’s an ensamble cast (which basically means that every actor has a part of equal or similar importance) of ten actors, and it’s set to take place during the course of 48H. The entire movie, however, will according to SFI (Swedish Film Institute) only last 150 minutes, and for the mathematician genious’ out there that means a ratio of 15 minutes of dominant screen time of  Alexander. (Ha ha, that last part was totally unecessary, but I have to amuse myself. That’s just the way it is.) The movies main storyline is supposed to be about a group of women running a theatre and their relationships with the men in their lives. It has recieved a contribution of 7 million SEK (swedish currency) from SFI.

sources:http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/broderna-skarsgard-jobbar-ihop-1.474511; http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-film/Filmdatabasen/?type=MOVIE&itemid=65158&ref=%2ftemplates%2fSwedishFilmSearchResult.aspx%3fid%3d1225%26epslanguage%3dsv%26searchword%3dpuss%26type%3dMovieTitle%26match%3dBegin%26page%3d1; http://gd.se/noje/film/1.138354; http://www.helagotland.se/ga/artikel.aspx?articleid=5164501; http://www.helagotland.se/ga/artikel.aspx?articleid=4429376

 Now, with all the idiotic media coverage in regards to the Paparazzi video I’m wondering why Swedish media always seem to get stuck on his “sex appeal” and continuously try to make him out to be a mini-fertility-deity. The fact is that Alexander Skarsgård is a really great actor who produces qualitative work. Maybe I’m just not understanding the sexual obsession surrounding him, but I’m thinking that any actor, especially a good one like Alexander, would rather be recognized for the content of their work than by how they look doing it. (Double entendre? Meh, maybe.)

Lady Gaga & Alexander Skarsgård in Paparazzi.

The video can currently be seen here: http://perezhilton.com/2009-05-28-epic-gagas-new-paparazzi-video posted by Perez Hilton who apparently think it’s “epic” and mind blowing. *coughs* It’s Ok, and Alexander does good work as always, but it’s definitely not style changing like Subterranean Homesick Blues and Thriller. 

sources: http://nyhetskanalen.se/1.1024204/2009/05/30/skarsgard_hanglar_med_lady_gaga; http://www.expressen.se/noje/fredag/1.1588292/skarsgard-i-het-scen-i-ny-video-med-gaga; http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/klick/article5256223.ab image credit: http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss138/EtainDanu/Alexander%20Skarsgard%20%20and%20Lady%20GaGa%20Paparazzi%20video/Paparazzi9.jpg

Alexander Skarsgård and Anders Wedin at Sturecompagniet, Stockholm, 2009

The image and original text can be found at its original source: http://www.stureplan.se/frame.php?main=/articles/9437/ and was published 20090601 by stureplan.se.