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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.

Bill Skarsgard

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’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
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
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
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
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
To me, it’s all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.
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Challenges Excited Inspiration
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.”
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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
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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Character Interesting Struggle
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
When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there’s something I’m gonna’ learn here? If I feel like it’s something I’ve done before, then what’s the incentive for me to do it?
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Character Done Feel Incentives InterAction
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’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
I don’t want to ever think that I don’t know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, “I did this.”
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Own Roles Thing Thinking Want
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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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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