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Stellan Skarsgård: ‘I never decided to become an actor. I still haven’t decided’

Stellan Skarsgård is one of Hollywood’s top earners, yet he has little time for the system. ‘I just happened to appear in very successful films,’ he says

It’s very early morning in London, yet the towering, coiffed father-of-eight is gregarious as ever, as he flits between such diverse topics as cooking, atheism, how he first met his wife, Megan, in the Shelbourne’s Horseshoe Bar (“You do meet a lot of people there”) and his late Hollywood home run.

He did balk at the House of Mouse’s standard contract that forbids actors from indulging in any behaviour that the film’s audience might find offensive.

“I was surprised that any actor would sign it but it turns out they do,” he says. “I don’t know why. The studios must protect their rights. But it’s abusive.” Skarsgård can afford to say no.

“I can get recognised by a three-year-old for Mamma Mia. And by teenagers for Thor or sometimes Nymphomaniac. I might get worried if the three-year-olds knew me from Nymphomaniac.”

“I see Lars Von Trier as my little brother and we have a lot of fun together. We have the same sense of humour, I guess.

He’s a fan, too, of how von Trier writes for women. “He has fantastic female leads and the male characters are pretty boring. But, as a vehicle for showing emotion, female characters are often better, because traditionally their emotional life has been more exposed. Men had a tendency to give the stiff upper lip and put the lid on. But we feel the same things you women do.”

That is one of the reasons that, having avoided various Scandi-crime shows, the actor was happy to sign up for the BBC detective series River.

“In the case of River, what’s going on behind the stiff upper lip was interesting to convey. And then when he encountered manifests, he could show everything. It was like playing one of Lars’ female characters.”

Skarsgård and his first wife, My, divorced after 32 years of marriage in 2007. He has subsequently remarried and has two young sons, Ossian (born in 2009) and Kolbjörn (born in 2012).

“It wasn’t much of a break, was it? And then I had to start over. I love it. What else should I do? Play golf? Also I’m different as a father now. I’m much more at ease with life and myself. It’s a great hobby.”

“It’s a parent’s job to make sure that they feel loved and worth something. And that they should be nice to people and be on time. That’s it. Then it’s good luck. They have to figure it out for themselves. And I’ll do the cooking.”

“I put in a phone call to Alexander,” says dad. “Because he had worked with Susanna on Generation Kill. Is she good? Is she nice? We don’t give advice but we do gossip. Put any four or five actors at a table and they’ll always gossip.” It’s not the first time that Skarsgård has played a Russian: he was Sean Connery’s student- turned-pursuer in The Hunt for Red October.

“That was during the Cold War when all the bad guys had to be Russian. There are not enough Swedish parts out there. I have to survive.”

[kolbjornbrin]

what do you use your gift for? Trouble? Adventure?

Does it hurt to change?

"Me? Trouble? Nah." There's a little sparkle in his eyes, that suggest a little playful troublemaking in his youth, "Adventure mostly, my family and I, we like goin' for walks in the woods. Pickin' up wood and whatnot along the way for my älskling's projects, or campfires to do some roasting. When my kids, my little cubs, were young, I used to carry them around on my back. They'd climb on up and slide down my head like I was some kind of slide." He laughs, smiling fondly.

His features grow thoughtful, with the follow up question, "It, well, it doesn't tickle, but it's not awful either. Feels a bit like when you bend over to touch your toes, you get that stretch in your leg muscles, but all over. Usually leaves a bit of an ache when I switch back, like after a big workout. Just for a day or two. Sometimes it might be a bit worse if I'm already tired out, or if I'm riled up and the shift sort of comes on without me meaning it to. But I'm a pretty easy going fella, that hasn't happened in a long time now."

[kolbjornbrin]

Starter Call!

Hi folks, I’d like to get a better feel for Kolbjorn as a character. While I have a fair bit of his background and such sorted out, I haven’t actually written him that much, so far, so if anyone would like to write with him, feel free to give this post a like and I can try to come up with a starter! :)

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Kolbjorn x Oda

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