'Börje - The Journey of a Legend,' a six-episode series that lands on ViaPlay this Sunday, honors the life of legend Börje Salming (portrayed by Valter SkarsgÄrd)
Eija, Valter, My and Stellan SkarsgÄrd, November 14, 2023, at Södra Teatern in Stockholm at the world premiere.
First photos of Alexander SkarsgÄrd, Michael Shannon and Judy Greer in Michael's directorial debut film 'Eric LaRue'
Photos courtesy of Big Indie Pictures found in the article "Michael Shannonâs Directorial Debut â 'Eric LaRue'" by Paula Landry (July 31, 2023) via scriptmag.com (my edits)
The film Eric LaRue premiered to packed audiences at the recent 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, a drama marking the directorial debut of Michael Shannon about Janice, a suburban American mother numbed by the fallout after her son murders three of his high school classmates, as she attempts to recover, face her shattered community, and prepare to visit her son in prison.
The film is an adaptation of Brett Neveuâs 2002 play with standout performances by Judy Greer as Janice the mother, Nation Henrikson as her son Eric, father and clueless husband, Alexander SkarsgĂ„rd, accompanied by a host of outstanding talentincluding Alison Pill, Paul Sparks, Tracy Letts and Annie Parisse.Â
Photos courtesy of Big Indie Pictures found in the article "Michael Shannonâs Directorial Debut â 'Eric LaRue'" by Paula Landry (July 31, 2023) via @scriptmagazine (my edits). The film still needs a distributor before we can get a release date.
Stellan SkarsgÄrd on the strike in Hollywood: "Of course we will strike"
The strike in Hollywood also affects Swedish actors. Among others, Malin Barr and Stellan SkarsgÄrd join in solidarity.
- It's damn good, of course we're going to strike!, says Stellan SkarsgÄrd to SVT Kulturnyheterna.
Stellan SkarsgÄrd describes the strike as "expected". He filmed his last scene in an American production at 8pm on Thursday night, shortly before the strike was called.
- It was really on the clock. This will affect the launch, says Stellan SkarsgÄrd, who has several international projects underway.
How does it feel?
- Damn good! Of course we're going to strike! If we don't strike there will be terrible effects, even now the digital possibilities to sample people are terrible. The tech giants want to hire people for a day and then be able to use them in media, in known and unknown universes, forever. It must be stopped. It is about the right to one's own face and to one's own body, he tells SVT Kulturnyheterna.
Criticism of streaming giants
Stellan SkarsgÄrd is particularly critical of Apple, Amazon and Netflix:
- They advocate the gig economy. That there should be total freedom to exploit people as much as you want. Those who own the companies are no longer interested in film, or interested in quality. They are only interested in making money.
via SVT.se Photo by Claudio Breschiani/TT - Google Translate was used for this Swedish article
Congratulations to 3-time Emmy nominee Alexander SkarsgĂ„rd! He was nominated for âOutstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Seriesâ for @Succession as Lukas Matsson!
The series was nominated as well as many of the cast & crew and received 27 Emmy nominations!
In this category from Succession:
Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch
Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Wambsgans
Alan Ruck as Connor Roy
Alexander SkarsgÄrd as Lukas Matsson
Stellan Skarsgard to Receive Locarnoâs Lifetime Achievement Award
Skarsgard will attend the Swiss festival to accept the Leopard Club Award and present 'What Remains,' a film in which he co-stars with his son, Gustaf.
BYÂ SCOTT ROXBOROUGH, JULY 10, 2023 3:15AM
Legendary Swedish star Stellan Skarsgard (Good Will Hunting, Mamma Mia!, Nymphomaniac) will be honored with the Leopard Club Award, a lifetime achievement honor, at this yearâs Locarno International Film Festival.
Skarsgard will receive the prize on Aug. 4 at a ceremony at Locarnoâs Piazza Grande and will take part in an audience Q&A on Aug. 5. In his honor, Locarno will screen Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990), Kjell Gredeâs period drama in which Skarsgard plays Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the final months of World War II. The festival will also screen What Remains, Ran Huangâs crime drama, co-written by his partner Megan Everett-Skarsgard, which features Skarsgard and one of his actor sons, Gustaf (Vikings, Oppenheimer). Huang and the Skarsgards will attend the Locarno screenings.
The 72-year-old has successfully balanced a career as a European art house star. He has made five films with Lars von Trier â including Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003) and Melancholia (2011) â and five with Norwegian auteur Hans Petter Moland, such as In Order of Disappearance (2014) and Out Stealing Horses (2019). Skarsgard has also held supporting roles in Hollywood blockbusters, like Pirates of the Caribbean, Mamma Mia!, Thor and the Avengers movies. He played Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in Denis Villeneuveâs Dune, a role he will reprise in the upcoming Dune: Part Two. On the small screen, Skarsgard won the Golden Globe for best supporting actor in a miniseries in 2019 for his performance in HBO drama Chernobyl and recently starred in Tony Gilroyâs Star Wars spinoff Andor for Disney+.
âStellan Skarsgard belongs to the tradition of European actors who have distinguished themselves between auteur cinema and Hollywood,â said Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro. âEndowed with a very powerful stage charisma, he has been able to make every role he has played unforgettable. Capable of reinventing his character according to the needs of the director and the script, he was able to inject his personality into films that were extremely different from each other.â
Locarnoâs Leopard Club award is presented every year to an individual âwhose work in the film industry has left its mark on the collective imagination.â Previous winners include Faye Dunaway, Mia Farrow, Adrien Brody, Meg Ryan, Hilary Swank and Daisy Edgar-Jones.
The 76th Locarno Film Festival runs Aug. 2 to 12. (Switzerland)
NEW BONUS VIDEO from the Firecrotch & Normcore interview that came out May 28th, 2023. (FINALE WEEKEND BONUS EPISODE - GoJo or Go Home - itâs Alexander SkarsgĂ„rd!)
@sarabarron1000000 shared on her Instagram June 20, 2023 (The podcast is with Sara Barron and Geoff Lloyd)
the background photo is the David Ritschard painting on his shirt by levinaredolfi.
new interview with Entertainment Weekly: Stellan SkarsgÄrd gave his Andor speech 10 times before he was happy
The Swedish actor opens up joining the Star Wars galaxy and building a revolution as Luthen Rael
By Devan Coggan
June 15, 2023 at 10:00 AM EDT
Star Wars has always dealt in archetypes â the wizened mentor, the scoundrel with a heart of gold, the wide-eyed farm boy destined for greatness. But Andor introduces a far more complex character, one unlike any we've ever seen before.
Stellan SkarsgĂ„rd plays Luthen Rael, a hardened freedom fighter and early architect of the Rebel Alliance. When the series begins, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) is still taking his first steps toward revolution. But Luthen has already spent years in the trenches, abandoning all personal attachments to try and kickstart the fight against the Empire. On Coruscant, he poses as a wealthy antiques dealer, donning a wig and peddling trinkets to the upper class â but he's secretly building a revolution, recruiting allies around the galaxy.
Star Wars has long positioned the Rebel Alliance as the good guys, the knights in shining armor determined to fight the Empire's fascism and cruelty. But Luthen is proof that revolution is rarely so black and white: He's willing to sacrifice anything â and anyone â to destroy the Empire.
The 72-year-old SkarsgÄrd is no stranger to massive, otherworldly franchises, starring in Marvel's Thor movies and playing the villainous Baron Harkonnen in Dune. But the Swedish actor shines as Luthen, and he's since earned Emmy buzz for his weary yet determined performance. He plays Luthen with a single-minded intensity that's usually reserved for Star Wars villains, and he delivers Andor's most moving speech, explaining how he's burned his life to make a sunrise he knows he'll never see.
In an exclusive interview, SkarsgĂ„rd spoke to EW's Dagobah Dispatch podcast about joining a galaxy far, far away. Here, he opens up about how he approached the morally complex Luthen â from that "tense" monologue to the joys of wearing wigs.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Take me back to the beginning. How was this character pitched to you?
STELLAN SKARSGĂ RD: Tony Gilroy pitched it to me. He himself was a very great reason for me to take it. He pitched it and said he was going to make a story that is more real than the others. I know him and his writing, and every scene has an urgency to it. Every scene has a great tension to it. I got to read the first three or four episodes, so it was not a big question. And I said yes.
Luthen is a fascinating character. He's so driven and committed to the Rebel cause, at the expense of everything else in his life. What was it about him that you found interesting?
As an actor, it's interesting to play this guy who lives a double life and to make two different characters out of one. That was interesting for me, but he's interesting as well because he is extreme. He's like Che Guevara or the Rote Armee Fraktion in Germany or any terrorists, really. But also, as a revolutionary, he is like George Washington. So, he's got all those ingredients that make him very exciting. He has this conflict between doing the right thing and also being able to kill for the right thing.
You talked about how he lives this double life, and he really is a shape-shifter. We see him put on his wig, and he can suddenly become the shopkeeper from Coruscant. What interested you about the way he literally transforms?
Well, it was very funny. It's a great thing for an actor to do, to be able to play two characters at the same time. But I also love wigs! [Laughs] I think it's fantastic to put a wig on and be someone else.
One of my favorite moments in the season is that speech that Luthen gives, where he talks about why he does what he does. There's that incredible line about burning his life to make a sunrise he'll never see. What do you remember most from filming that scene?
I mean, of course I knew I had a speech that was very well written, and it was probably one of the best scenes in the season. And I worked on it. When we shot it, somehow I was tense. I think I said, "Let's go again, let's go again." I think I did it 10 times in a row, very fast, right on top of each other. 10 times, like "Go, go, go." And then it was good. Then, I was satisfied, and the director was satisfied.
Oh wow. It really is this intense moment.
Yeah, it was very intense.
I've spoken to Tony Gilroy and some of the cast, and they've all talked about the production design on Andor and how big the sets are. What was it like for you to walk around those sets and be in the Star Wars universe like that?
Well, I was very happy to be in that kind of Star Wars universe and not like in many films, where you're just in the world of green screens. Because it affects you physically when you have the set. You can't deny that. It was the same thing with the sets on Dune. They are physically there, these enormous sets, and you feel it in your body. You move differently. We had all of Ferrix built up as this city. It's very exciting.
Was there a day on set where you really felt like, "Oh my gosh, I'm in Star Wars?"
No, but I was happy that I had my own spaceship. I've lacked that in my career so far.
What's that like to get to pilot a spaceship? What's it like behind the controls?
[Laughs] You're like 10 years old when you sit down behind the controls. You become serious, and you turn the wheel and push the buttons and stuff. You become very silly, but it's very fun.
Tell me a little bit about working with Diego Luna on this. There are some really beautiful, intense scenes between the two of you.
He was also a reason for me to take the job. We met several years ago. We were supposed to do a film about football, but it didn't happen â not with us. It sort of broke down. So I've been waiting for him to do a film with me again. And I love the fellow. He's a true actor, and he's a true man.
I also love the scenes with you and Genevieve O'Reilly, where Mon Mothma comes to Luthen's shop. What do you remember most about filming those scenes with her?
I'm playing the Coruscant character there, which is much more flamboyant. But the first scene she entered, she came with this great limousine she has, flying in. She was much more sexy and beautiful, and she took over the space much more than I realized than she had ever done in the films. And then, of course, she has a great humor, so we had a lot of fun doing that.
There's a lot of really great actors that I met all the time there. It's so well cast. I had a lot of fun.
I know season 2 is in the works. How's that been going?
That's going great. I mean, Tony Gilroy has gone on strike, as of the first of May. He finished the scripts right on the day, and then he shut off the phone and disappeared into a picket line somewhere. So, we'll see. He claims that the [series] is director-proof and actor-proof, which means that it can't be destroyed. [Laughs] We'll see if it works.
Well, I can't wait to see what you guys have up your sleeves and where this story goes.
It'll be lovely. But I can't tell you, I'm afraid! [Laughs]
For more from SkarsgÄrd, as well as exclusive interviews with Tony Gilroy, Diego Luna, and more, listen to EW's Star Wars podcast, Dagobah Dispatch.
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