I don’t think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a civil engineer, you could become a biologist, you could become a computer scientist – that was the point of it.
BILL SKARSGARDI have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents’ education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.
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Sweden is a small country and, well, our family’s pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn’t like the sound of just being ‘the fourth acting Skarsgard.
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My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I’m pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
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There’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.
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I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents’ education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.
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Personally I don’t believe in bad people. I think there’s always a reason for people acting badly.
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I had no idea what I wanted to do. In my last two years of high school here happened to be these few scripts that I really responded to.
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I’m constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It’s completely disproportionate.
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I worked with Lady Gaga for a day on a video shoot. It was crazy; we had a lot of fun. I had a great time.
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To me, it’s all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.
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In movies we tend make things black and white: you’re either this, or you’re that.
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I’ve always been a night person. There’s a sense of virtue attached to getting up in the morning and doing things and starting the day, and I always felt bad for not being that person. But as I’ve gotten a bit older, now I’m completely okay with it. That’s just who I am.
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A character on screen that’s the ‘good guy’ or the ‘bad guy,’ they’re never interesting. There’s got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.
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I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don’t think I’m better looking now than I did three years ago.
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I’m always looking for something that’s real and that’s got meat on it. I think it’s artistic suicide if you’re too vain, or if you’re afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.
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Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.
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