Skarsgard, Alexander
Watch Alexander Skarsgard Battle the Undead in ‘The Northman’
In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also watch our collection of more than 150 videos on YouTube and subscribe to our YouTube channel. A quiet moonlit scene turns into a […]
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Robert Eggers on ‘The Northman’: Directing Is an ‘Insane’ Job
Is Robert Eggers an endangered species? The 38-year-old director cut his teeth making stylized art-house films like the horror-tinged fable “The Witch,” which won Eggers the best director award at the Sundance Film Festival, and “The Lighthouse,” a black-and-white mind-bender that starred Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe. This is normally the inflection point when an […]
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Alexander Skarsgard’s Viking Dream
LONDON — In Alexander Skarsgard’s telling, the idea for what eventually became his latest film, “The Northman,” has its roots on a long, slender island off the coast of Sweden called Oland, where his great-great grandfather built a wooden house a hundred years ago. “Some of my earliest memories are from walking around with my […]
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