by The audition process is sometimes one of the most difficult that an actor has to live, and it is not Alexander Skarsgard who will say the opposite: he was crying in the shower.
Starting an actor career is not easy, and many stars have said that they had started by participating in auditions, these moments when we have to repeat a scene at home that we must then present to a more or less involved casting director.
There are few movie stars to have lived their period of hearings well, and Alexander Skarsgard is no exception. Even after having shot in Zoolander (2001), his first role in an American film, the Swedish actor continued to have to pass tests in order to work, and he has a very bad memory, as he entrusted to the Podcast Dinner's (via Hollywood Reporter):
“It traumatized me a little”
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“I found it really horrible. You go [à une audition] For a project when you know that you are not suitable and you have no connection with the character, but you do it mainly because you cannot say no. “
“I was always about to get fired by my agents. If I said no to [une audition]they were probably going to abandon me, so I had to go there when I did not feel comfortable with the role and that I was not at all up to par. “
“It traumatized me a little, because I remember returning to my little shabby little apartment, crying in the shower after a day like this. I felt dirty up to my soul and I had lost all confidence. I told myself that I was the worst actor of the world, that I had no dignity to audition for these things, that I was wasting their time.”
When did he finally pierced?
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Even if he had already managed to obtain main roles in his native country, Alexander Skarsgard really started to break through in the United States with the HBO Generation Kill of Ed Burns, David Simon, according to Evan Wright's book in which he holds the headliner. But it is truly the True Blood series that he made himself known by interpreting Eric Northman, a 1000 -year -old vampire who became a bar boss.
He will take advantage of this new renown to turn into the remake of straw dogs, then in Melancholia and Battlehip. After having embodied Tarzan, there is a new audience by appearing in the two seasons of the successful series Big Little Lies (2017-2019), then the scourge (2020-2021) adapted from Stephen King.
Among his recent striking roles, let us quote that of a billionaire calculator in succession, that of a Viking (still) in The Northman and the Murderbot series: Journal of an Assasynth, of which he plays the first role.
