As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.
Alexander SkarsgardAll the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
Alexander SkarsgardWhether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.
Alexander SkarsgardI can't express how much admiration I have for women in general, who walk around in high heels, but, drag queens, oh my god.
Alexander SkarsgardWhat intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy for themselves to go, "All right. There's the good guy, there's the bad guy, there's the girl. Okay, I get it now." But life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both. So any time the hero does something I'm not crazy about, or the bad guy does something I can relate to, I'll find it more interesting.
Alexander Skarsgard