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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.

Bill Skarsgard

There’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.
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Country January June Stark
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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Always Fall Real Something Suicide
I started acting when I was 9. I did smaller parts here and there as a kid, and then as I grew older I started resisting it, because I didn’t like the idea of being.
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Acting Kids Older School Smaller
Personally I don’t believe in bad people. I think there’s always a reason for people acting badly.
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Believe People Thinking
Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.
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Eventually Job People Something
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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Acting Country Forth Guess Prominent Sound
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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Brother Doctors Education Mother Older
In movies we tend make things black and white: you’re either this, or you’re that.
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Black Black And White White
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.
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People School Thinking
To me, it’s all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.
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Challenges Excited Inspiration
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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Happened High Idea People Responded Year
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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Bad Day Good Looking Now Thinking
I come from a family of pacifists, so it’s not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.
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Come Country Family might Month Sweden War
It’s funny: it takes a while to really get your character. It’s impossible to do it on the first day. That’s the same way in films; if you start shooting a film, maybe a couple weeks in, you’re like, “Ah! Now I think I really get him.”
BILL SKARSGARD

Character Couple Impossible Thinking
Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, “I can be really shitty,” and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it.
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Confidence Crumble More Rooted Sense
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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Attached Day Morning Night Person Start Virtue

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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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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