Five Questions
1. Alexander Skarsgård, now beginning to "Generation Kill" broadcast on SVT, the rumor that you talkin BELL-RINGING U.S., it is hard training behind or you have a natural ear for language?
- I have been pretty much in the U.S. during my growing up, plus I was in an American school, when I lived in Budapest in 1989, so my American was pretty good even before the "Generation Kill". Then I got help to refine the dialect during recording in Africa of a very good dialect coach.
2. You did your military service in U.S. Navy special forces, an experience where you had the benefit of the role of Sergeant Brad Colbert?
- Very much. The structure, hierarchy, discipline, peer partnerships...
3. The series has been praised as a credible depiction of soldiers in war and but were you ever, during recording, afraid it would become a series of recruitment for the U.S. Army?
- Not at all. The series is created by Ed Burns and David Simon who made "The Wire" which I had seen before I got the role in "Generation Kill". They are far too intelligent to make the War.
4. TV series filmed in Namibia, what did you do when you're not working?
- We filmed 72 hours a week so when I was not on the recording site did not I do so much other than sleep and prepare for upcoming scenes.
5. Besides Generation Kill, you are also in current vampire series "True Blood" which you play viking vampire Eric Northman. Which characters would you prefer to be personal friends with and why?
- After the recording of "Generation Kill" I have become good friends with Brad Colbert, so even if it would be fun to go to Disneyland with an old Viking vampire, I have enough to choose Brad.