There’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.
BILL SKARSGARDThere’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.
BILL SKARSGARDI 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.
BILL SKARSGARDMy 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.
BILL SKARSGARDI 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.”
BILL SKARSGARDConfidence 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.
BILL SKARSGARDIt’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 SKARSGARDTo me, it’s all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.
BILL SKARSGARDPersonally I don’t believe in bad people. I think there’s always a reason for people acting badly.
BILL SKARSGARDI’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.
BILL SKARSGARDI 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 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.
BILL SKARSGARDEventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.
BILL SKARSGARDI 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.
BILL SKARSGARDSweden 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.
BILL SKARSGARDAt the time, number four of the Skarsgård actors. So in high school I majored in science and was like, “Maybe I’ll do something rebellious and become a doctor.”
BILL SKARSGARDIn movies we tend make things black and white: you’re either this, or you’re that.
BILL SKARSGARD