Alexander Skarsgard article in Glamour UK (August 2014) GLAMOUR UK has a new interview/article with Alexander Skarsgård in their August 2014 issue. Helen Whitaker interviewed Alex while he was still in Los Angeles. If you don’t live in the UK and would like to read the full article, you can purchase a digital copy on your tablet on their app, Glamour Magazine (UK). Excerpts from the interview: On ending True Blood after 7 seasons: “It’s a very weird feeling, he says. “We’re not going on hiatus this time, we’re actually finishing the show.” Glamour UK: So far, how many times has he done the Tarzan yell? “Zero, actually!” Not even in the audition? “No, I’ve never had to do that.” Does he want to demonstrate it now? He laughs. “I’ll save it for a very special moment.” On university life in England at Leeds Met when he was 19: Living in a dodgy student flat (“it was in a basement with no heating and no windows”) and binge-drinking at dubious nightclubs (“There was a a place called Majestic that had, like, £1 pints on Tuesdays). “I loved it,” he enthuses of his time there. “The people there are so nice and friendly and hospitable. And I didn’t meet a single Swede in six months, so I definitely got what I wanted.” Glamour UK: He starred in The East with Ellen Page, to whom he became very close. At one point they were rumored to be dating, before Ellen’s brave coming out speech with February. “I’m extremely proud of her for being so strong and coming out and helping other young guys and girls out there,” says Alex of his good friend today. “She’s a great inspiration for other people. And the way she did it was so eloquent, so well-spoken and she’s so intelligent.” And finally…we get to hear about his trek to the South Pole with Walking With the Wounded! “I’ve been fascinated by Antarctica since I was a kid, and when this opportunity came up, I desperately wanted it to work out,” he says. “I was shooting a movie called The Giver in South Africa and fortunately I was able to wrap in time. I went straight to Antarctica for a month. I love just being disconnected like that. The year before, I sailed across the Atlantic. It took three weeks and was kind of a similar experience int the sense of being completely present in the moment. You don’t have your cell phone, no email. It’s very liberating in a way, and a good excuse to not be reachable for a month.” “If you pass out and it’s -40°C, you can get frostbite in seconds,” says Alex. “It was definitely the right call because some people did get frostbite and had issues with the elevation. The race aspect of it wasn’t important, it was more for motivation and to make it more fun, but the whole point was to make a documentary about these amazing men and women, and for them to tell their stories and to inspire other people. The most important thing was to get all 12 soldiers to the South Pole and we did that.” Glamour UK: Did you ever worry you’d get frostbite when you posed for a teammate’s [Inge Solheim] Instagram photo, naked on a toilet at the South Pole, I ask innocently. He laughs. “Yeah, but it was such a great photo op, I had to do it. I weighed the risk and felt like it was definitely worth it.” Thanks to Glamour UK, Katy for the scans and Meatballs for sharing.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:16:35 +0000
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