Alexander Skarsgard Covers 'GQ Style Australia'

A very good weekend ahead after seeing these..very good indeed!

I like his hair, very similar to mine. Lol!

sexy

He looks incredible on these pics :) I like his hairy chest and hands … very manly …

He’s a beauitful people (inside and out).

@freya: Det var säkert jättespännande och en riktig livserfarenhet. Säkert en grej man snackar mycket om med polarna liksom. Men det var ändå en väldigt kort period i livet, inte sant? Känns löjligt att han ska ta upp det i så många amerikanska intervjuer som om det vore nånting unikt. Speciellt med tanke på att USA är ett land som faktiskt ÄR i krig, och har haft tusentals dödade soldater i dessa krig. Att då ta upp 10 dar i svenska lumpen känns skrattretande, tycker jag.

He is such a man!!!!!

” aaaaaaaaaaah *_* ” as usual

He smoulders. Hotter then ever.

@Mo: He was probably responding to a question, the same questions he gets all the time. And he was referring to the training itself. As I already commented, he’s mentioned before he knows it’s not as if he was in actual battle or at war. But that doesn’t mean the training wasn’t difficult.
Let’s throw you into the woods, never mind in winter, without little food and sleep deprivation and see how you feel at the end of it.

@ladybug: I find it amusing that people are so protective of him. I’m not saying it wasn’t tough but I am saying it was for ten days, 17 years ago and he should stop answering questions about it as if it was a bigger deal than it was.

@Mo: Not a matter of ‘protecting’ him.
What’s he going to say: I’ve already talked about that in countless interviews, bored now? He’s not that type of interviewee.
We should be happy the interviewer apparently didn’t ask about lions as an Eric inspiration and being naked.

Gorgeous!~~Super sexy!! ~~~~ Very hot !!!

Not the best cover, but the rest of the shoot is good. People are always going to bring up his military training to him, he’s good enough to answer the question. I wouldn’t want to do ten days in a Swedish winter!

My god ! We needed these pictures especially after the Hidden set ones! puppy dog eyes indeed!

I hope we get to learn something new at least in this interview. They just ask him the same questions over and over again.

What the hell is wronge with his facial expression???? is he in so much pain sitting on that chair? Must he a hard life earning millions, getting front cover shoots , shagging half of HW 21 yr old models/actress living in upscale west HW, driving a nice porshe expensive clothes/designers and still gives a **** expression with boring same answers to questions ……..”………”………”……..”"…….

@Smile dude please: Bring that complaint up with the photographer and the photo editors, we’ve been asking for happy/goofy Skars photoshoots for awhile now. Maybe if he does a comedy we’ll stop getting Broody Skars photo-shoots.

@hmmmmmmm: I think one of the Australian tumblr sites mentioned this during his Battleship promo-he’s not as well known there and so some of of the questions are going to be repetitive for everyone else who’s read other interviews. And repetitive for him.
Maybe by next year we’ll have moved on from the military service/lion/naked etc. questions. Maybe.

@Mo: De frågar alltid samma fråga. Du är naken i TB, din far en skådespelare, dina bröder är skådespelarer, saknar du at väre hemma, är Eric så dålig kille, var det svårt att komma till Hollywood bla bla bla. Vad skulle han säga? Han kommer uppenbarligen inte att säga något om hans personliga liv, så detta är den typ av intervjuer vi får med honom. Tråkigt ja, men också tråkiga frågor. Han måste sälja en produkt så vi får inte några avslöjande intervjuer med honom, tror jag.

TV Guide Magazine: Will Anna be back full time right away after the birth of her twins in November?
Ball: She is. We’re moving production to January to accommodate her. And there will only be 10 shows next season partly because of Anna and partly because of the economics.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/True-Blood-Finale-Alan-Ball-1052519.aspx

Awesome pictures! ..except for the one they choose for the cover

What in hell has everyone against this cover picture?? I love it!! It looks somehow invitingly, to sit down on his lap – especially with this look of him…;) LoL
..and I love it too, that he doesn’t shave his chest and arms like so much other HW types…this simply belongs to him…

As for the interview; I guess if they can’t ask him something private – then it’s normal that some questions will be asked again and again. I suppose there exist probably many more no-go’s like political topics, opinion about other actor/actress colleagues, directors; current social incidents etc. The risk to be false interpreted or cited is simply too big (as we sometimes could observe already in the past) – so what is left?

@Cafélady: Yep, no art, no design, could probably ask more questions about Hammarby, that would get him excited!, his favorite books, why does he wear a necklace with a chain held together by a safety pin, etc.

@Next- His American Men’s Journal interview was good and the whole Aussie GQ hasn’t been posted yet so why do we wait and see.

he looks like he’s hurt and I wanna hold him and say it’s gonna be ok so bad!

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So what happens when one of Alex’s exes works with another exes life partner/ fiancé?

http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/michael-polish-teams-with-evan-rachel-wood-on-18-wheel-butterfly/

@Next!: And with the Hidden we’ll get weight loss questions and with Disconnect we’ll get padding/bad clothing questions. Maybe some questions about what he does on the Internet.
The Men’s Journal interview was good, but as already mentioned, the interviewer did his homework, as did the the GQ interviewer. Put a little effort into your research, and have some different questions, and listen to what he says. He’s not an ‘easy’ interview, you’re going to have to do your job. But if you do your job, unless he’s really cranky, you’ll get a get a good interview. But if you don’t do your job well, it’s as my programmer friends like to to point out: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

At least the styling is awesome ! I remember the Bullet magazine photos…..shudder…..they stuck him in those god awful red and blue suits and made him look like an 1960′s evangelist! With a lamb!!!!

Yes, there is a fair amount of airbrushing and photoshopping involved in this ( and a bad job too) ! but blame the editors and the over zealous photoshop guys! I personally hate it when they airbrush his under eye bags and when they try to chisel his so called ‘ potato nose’ ! I love them and hes still an exceptionally sexy man with those !

There are so many quesrions that they could ask him, like for eg his love for literature esp non fiction, music, football and sports. For that, the interviewers need to do some homework but sadly very few seem to do that. Since this is for GQ style, i a guessing there would be more questions regarding clothng and his personal style. We will know on the 3rd .

@Bumblebee I agree with you but also would like to point out that his under eye bags are not like they look in true blood where that horrible vampire make up makes everybody look much older and acentuates any facial features, even the much younger ones sometimes look awfull. Stephen moyer is not that old looking in real life either. Alex has always had those unique facial features even as a young child and I love his face just the way it is. sometimes because of too much white and thick make up the bags get enhanced. another think I noticed that towards the end of season 5 he was looking skinnier and was wondering why, then I found out he was actually starting to lose weight for that movie so let’s hope that after this movie id done he enjoys a nice vacation bulks up for season 6 and keeps the sexy long hair then we will all have an Skarsgasm LoL

I don’t like the cover picture at all but the others are good.

ohhh…ALEXANDER…sigh.

@gloria: I’ve noticed in some pictures that his arms are quite hairy, but sometimes they’re waxed/shaved. It’s the same with his chest – usually no chest hair, but in that scene in TB s4, where he’s in bed with Sookie, you can see his chest is slightly hairy, with really short hairs, almost as if it was waxed few days/weeks before and new hairs started growing.

I would really love to see his chest hair more often. He should just leave it alone. It’s not that hairy anyway, just about right.

@mlllllllllllle: yea, if i see somebody like him in the streets i will think “what ugly man “,yea…mmmm, maybe you are seing the mirror and not the cover, i think.

Sorry forgot to paste link. Strong meds today. Also was supposed to read..’body hair is much darker”.

http://askarsswedishmeatballs.tumblr.com/

@ray: REALLY HOPE HE KEEPS THE HAIR LENGH AND HIS NATURAL COLOR FOR SEASON 6 It would suit the Eric from the books so much better, just saying

Except it’ll be hard to do that, and explain how in the last scene of S5 he had shorter hair and then suddenly in the following seconds it’s much longer.

@mforman, my suspicion is that this will be the last season, I’ve had that feeling for a couple of years. But even if they are looking at having it the final season, highly unlikely they’d make that decision until much closer to the start of filming.

@Ray: Sadly, I wouldn’t be surprised, especially with a shortened season, that the time for Viking flashbacks is pretty much done. Haven’t had any for a couple of seasons, IIRC.

And if he didn’t cut the hair he’d have to wear a wig to maintain consistency with the the ending of S5 to the beginning S6.

@Insecure man:
Look man I know all is fair in Gossip but that’s all that this is gossip really bad one too, he is not that skillful as to have hide this well known swedish actress for 6 months in Sweden or LA. If he is out anywhere ppl tweet about it, he has not been in hiding the last couple of months. She herself has stated recently that it was a rumor plus she is homeless in LA she said that also in her interview, if she was dating him wouldn’t she have said that she was homeless? No, she would have at least stated that she was staying at a close friend. He lives alone if she was his gf and serious she would be staying with him.
This rumor is beyond ridiculous 6 months come on next thing they are going to come out and say that he has a 2 year old baby from a Japanese woman. I probably just helped write the next true love story. Sorry Alex.

@mforman: A variety of reasons, including just a hunch. Could they go on for years, sure. But should they? 6 seasons is a good run for a tv series, especially on cable. And I think that S6 will end the contracts of those who started with the show (contracts were for 7 years, not seasons, IIRC).
I’d rather they end and have us wish they hadn’t than keep going and we wished they ended sooner.
Would I be surprised if they kept it through at least S7? No. But neither would I be surprised if they ended it next year.

@ladybug: #43 “Yep, no art, no design, could probably ask more questions about Hammarby, that would get him excited!, his favorite books, why does he wear a necklace with a chain held together by a safety pin, etc.”

Yep, the Hammarby question could be probably a hit – I could imagine that he would be thrilled to talk about it!…hmm, his favorite books…if I remember correct, then they had asked him about it already in any earlier interview – and if I’m here also correct, then he answered a bit evasively about it. (I can’t find the interview at the moment)
The necklace…yeah, this would be interesting..:)…first of all; why has the necklace two anchors instead of only one, and why is one of it smaller than the other, for instance..LoL…very nosy, isn’t it?..;)…I guess only one thing is probably for sure – it must mean something real personal and/or very special to him…may be it’s a memory for him, to a special place or situation or a person…who knows? :)

@mforman: @ladybug: #74/75…I think there are reasons for a last season as well as for a further season 7.
If the contract is about 7 years, not 7 seasons – then HBO has the “problem” that the contracts will have a new basis for negotiations, especially the salary for the actors of the main characters.
And the longer the series will run, the longer they can get success – sure, but on the other hand the risk will rise up for the “x-files effect”. Means: in the case of “x-files” the audience became tired of the stories because the script and the stories became more and more weak. This could be also an risk for TB.

For the actors is it surely a two-sided thing – on one hand an relatively constantly income and an regularly and obviously well-liked job in a great team (this mentioned “family feeling”).
On the other hand the actors are very time-limited for other interesting and possible projects as long as they are contractually bound to TB.

I think, there will be a variety of reasons for the pros and cons for further seasons – but mostly the money will decide in the end.

@Cafelady : @ladybug—-I think the main actors have gotten raises even before their contracts had to be re negotiated. Also AB made a point of saying that going down to 10 episodes was to help Anna (which I truly think is amazing and shows how much they really are like a family) but also due to economics.
Remember TB has been a non stop money maker and rating hit for HBO, not only with the show, but then when they also sell the box sets and all the merchandising that is featured in the HBO shop. It has been the most successful show since the Sopranos and those are some huge shoes to fill, but TB has done it year after year and this seasons ratings, especially the finale, was an amazing thing for a show in its fifth season.
I also think AB’s replacement has some amazing ideas for not only the upcoming season, but a season 7. I just cannot see them only giving this guy one year, remember he also got to negotiate a deal.
Of course money is always a factor, but I think that is why HBO always waits before they make the renewal annoucement, they want to see the ratings and see what the fans think, because I really believe they read the comments that are made.
I mean look at what was going on for TB and Comic Con this year. They needed motorcades, I mean from what the actors have said this year was the most crowded and crazy it has ever been, I cannot see HBO giving that up if the ratings continue the way they have and the ratings only continue to be great if the fans enjoy the storylines.
Of course, we really wont have any idea until the second or third episode of Season 6, I guess I am just not ready for it to end. I don’t think they could sum up all the storylines in one 10 episode season.
Sorry guys, but I hope I am right and we get a Season 7 and then 8.

@mforman: They didn’t have to limit to ten episodes just for Anna, though, just the start date, so I find it a bit odd. They’d really just have to extend filming through the middle/end of July.
However, they can wrap up story lines in 10 episodes, they just have to finally do what fans have been asking for since S2, more streamlined storytelling. I suspect that as they really start working on the writing for this season they will have scenarios in which this is the last season, and have those storylines that can be wrapped up, but also continued if they’re renewed.
Just because the actors got raises doesn’t mean the length of the contract was changed. And just because Hudis got a contract for a specific time frame doesn’t mean it can’t end before that. The leads for the Killing also had 7 year contracts. The series lasted 2 seasons. The people involved in TB are aware that just because they have contracts doesn’t mean they won’t be ended.
Could they go to 7 seasons? Yes. But I really doubt 8, I think they will be stretching it in terms of creative freshness, that’s normal in tv land (X-Files has already been mentioned). I’d rather it end on a high note than wonder it why it dragged on for more seasons than it should have.

@Mo:

I totally agree, and I love him to pieces, so this is not a slap against him. But he’s 36 years old and did a very short service at age of 19, and he needs to stop talking about it. He also needs to stop saying how he’s a sergeant. He did 1.5 years of service. Even the South Korean mandatory service is a little over 2 years and they actually train for an attack on their country like it could really happen. When he says “I’m a sergeant” it just comes across as self-aggrandizing, frankly, and that is not who he is. Interviewer should ask him about books or something. He is very intelligent and a big reader. Also, the crossed arm pose, hand up to face pose, and hand behind the head pose ALL NEED TO BE RETIRED FOREVER. These poses are designed to showcase muscle definition in the arms. We all know his body is bangin’. Enough with the poses.

This is not the final season of TB. HBO has always announced the series final season with all it’s hit shows like The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Entourage, Big Love. AB also said in an interview that they are setting up things now that will coincide with the later books and will play out in future seasons. Seasons plural being the optimum word there. Never fear, it’s not over yet. I think them scaling down to 10 episodes, may clean up the storylines and give us more focus on the main characters. We ‘ll see.

@Seiko: I don’t think the poses are his ideas, isn’t it the photographer who dress you up and set the poses for the photoshoot? So let’s say this photoshoot was about flexing his muscles, i bet most of his fans have nothing against it another photoshoots go darker and portrait some kind of BDSM like that Interview mag a while back, another with some crazy blue and red and a lamb another one in weird positions in shorts without socks or with funny hats and the list goes on and on, maybe you have just saw the ones with the flexings I don’t know, my point is that that’s not for him to decide what the photographer wants to enphazise from a given photoshoot, just saying.

It’s funny how some Alex “fans” (whose MO = I love ASkars, but…) always complain about his interviews but NEVER say anything negative about Paquin’s or Manganiello’s repetitive answers. Paquins give way too much information about their sex life, Stephen’s kids and now Anna’s pregnancy. When she’s given birth to their twins we are doomed to hear every single detail about their kiddos and family life.
I haven’t either seen any complaints about Joe’s constant bragging about his work out, diet, strip tease moves and of course about how tall he is. He obviously thinks he’s the tallest guy in the world at his 6,5″. Didn’t he watch the Olympic games; there were swimmers, athletes, players much taller, more good looking and younger than him. His photo shoots are always very generic, shirtless alpha male and work out routine poses. I also find it funny how some of JM’s fans hate Alex’s ex gf fiercely but that doesn’t prevent them from being the fans of the biggest male attention/fame whåre who even used his fiancée to get attention and then dumped her when he thought he’s a big name in HW.

@Texas Swede:

Fair enough, but I’ve seen a lot of talk about his girl friends, friends, family members etc here, so I don’t understand why we can’t discuss about Alex’s TB cast mates and their bitter fans when they keep bashing Alex here and on the other forums. This seems to be almost the only page where you have freedom of speech; elsewhere you get censored or banned if you say anything negative about AP, SM or JM while nasty, sometimes downright sick comments about Alex remain on said discussion boards.
That said, I only wanted to indicate how unfair some TB fans are towards Alex. They also seem to forget that Alex isn’t native English speaker and doesn’t come from bilingual family like Joel Kinnaman for example.

@§: #80 …oh, I agree with you – this sort of question would be presumably very personal for him, I think. At least, after all what we could see and hear in interviews of him and so on, I doubt that he would answer this question. And with good reason, of course – because as already mentioned, this question is a bit personal.
My remark about the anchor-necklace was just a response to ladybug, respectively the attempt to spin further her idea in a not too serious, but also in a bit funny meant way. ;) (Even though the answer would be interesting, anyway! :) )

I also know and have read that the anchor is/can be a symbol for several things. But the fact that he wears the necklace practically always shows -in my view- that it apparently has a very personal meaning to him.

@Cafelady—-Like I said in post #82, I found an old article that was pretty good and had a great explaination for the anchors:
“Wears a necklace with two anchors. In Nordic culture anchors are a sign of hope”.
This article also said he loves vanialla ice cream and sleeping on the right side of the bed, but is willing to negotiate that.

@mforman: #97…with me, he were not be forced to negotiate something – I sleep on the left side normally…LoL ;)

Here are the scans of the interview/pics:

http://askarsswedishmeatballs.tumblr.com/post/30770142496/heres-the-full-gq-article-definitely-read-it-if

pat was so nice and shared this link with me from the GQ Style:
http://imageshack.us/f/822/gq2xp.jpg
I just love everything it says about where he now lives in LA and what and who was the cause of the pap nonesense.
I really cannot wait to read this whole article.
Thanks again pat.

(waves to thumb troll)

Disconnect screened at Venice today:

http://askarsswedishmeatballs.tumblr.com/post/30793365240/alexs-movie-disconnect-screened-at-the-venice

@mforman: I love the article. I just wish they had not told where he bought a house. Now the paps will know where to look for him again. And he will probably change gyms to be closer to home too.

@ladybug:
LOL explains why a certain person is sometimes in Los Feliz instead of closer to where she lives. Wasn’t she taking the “art class” in Silver Lake?

@Texas Swede (#107)—-I known I really think for the first time the interviewer did his research and got him to talk or at least start to talk, before as the interviewer says, “Ever the gentleman, AS brings the conversation back to the paps.” Also I loved how AS stopped talking mid sentence, I guess when he realized he was starting to talk about the creature. He must have been very comfortable with this interviewer.
I don’t think the paps knowing he lives in Los Feliz, will cause him many problems. I think the paps have known where he has lived for a while and they seem to not bother him that much.
@ladybug (#104)—You and me both, if I can’t get the magazine on Amazon, I head over to EBay. I just cannot help it.

@Macy: I thought the blue hoodie shopping trip was last year, not this.
But yes, the design book, the increase in sightings in his new ‘hood, it all makes sense now!
Yes, she’s been spotted in that area before, but it’s also not that far away from her.

@mforman, hadn’t seen it on eBay yet. This site should also have it:

http://magsonline.com.au/store/displaystore.asp?sid=2554

@Macy: Per the interview, the house buying was recent, so I’m presuming this winter/spring, not 2011.

@ladybug (#113)—Thanks for the link.

@Macy: Even with him mentioning living out boxes, the couch surfing stuff was in context of the break up last year when he wasn’t even in LA, so I’m not putting much stock in those. It’s also possible that he leased/rented like he does his cars, which means he rented a different home from year to year.

@Macy: That’s why the boxes things confuses me, if he was staying at the same rental, which I’m honestly under the impression he was, since the HH home has been mentioned several times over the years, why mention the living out of boxes unless it was it was a regular occurrence: Bjorne! Lisa! I need your garage space again!
Anyway, now he’s a homeowner and now is responsible for that comes with it (or his manager is): fire insurance, flood insurance, earthquake insurance, calling the plumber at 2 in the morning when the pipes break, etc.

@Macy: If it’s full of IKEA I hope he had someone put it together for him!

@ladybug @mforman #100/102: :))))

@Cafélady: The only reality show I watch is Amazing Race, where teams race around the world performing tasks. 8 years ago one of the stops was Stockholm at the IKEA factory and the task was putting together a piece of furniture using all the parts, screws, etc. It took awhile for the teams to complete that one. It was amusing to watch the teams get so frustrated.