Alexander Skarsgård and Linus Wahlgren talk love.
Thirsty for love? Test the dog trick! Now comes the movie about the world's best scoring trick. Puls talk girls and flirtation technique with movies sugar lumps Alexander Skarsgård and Linus Wahlgren.
Single panic, yes. Everyone has probably at some time felt that painfull longing for the great love.
But now medicine for searching souls is there. Tonight the movie "Hundtricket" premieres in the cinemas. A romantic comedy about the search for love, the world's smartest scoring trick and friendship taken to the test.
Direction is by movie debutants Christian Eklöw and Christopher Panov and as the love hungry Simon we see Linus Wahlgreh. His friend Robinson-Micke is played by Alexander Skarsgård.
Simon loves romantic movies and dreams about finding the great love.
- I definitely recognize this longing for love. Before I met my girlfriend I didn't have any really serious relationships and I longed for it, says Linus Wahlgren.
Puls meets them a grey cold October lunch to make to pump them about how the dream girl should be and if "hundtricket" [dog trick] really works.
Bummer! None of them have tested it.
- No, I have no experience there. I believe more in destiny, Alexander says with a firm voice.
Well then, borrowing a dog, going to a park and getting the girls to flock around you, doesn't work. How do you do it then?
- I don't believe in using tricks. The girls who have something behind their sculls will see through it pretty quickly, Alexander says.
Linus nods.
- Yes, it happens when it happens. I met my girlfriend because I happened to call the wrong person. I knew her a little, was going to call a friend, but ended up at her instead.
- That's what he is telling his girlfriend, anyway, Alexander blinks meaningful.
Score trick or not. The wrong call became a coffee and now they have been together for one and a half year.
Alexander on the hand is single.
Are you longing to meet someone?
- From time to time. Sometimes one can feel like Simon, the most lonely guy in the world, and that you are never going to meet the one. But I am happy like I am now with work and travelling.
When Simon in "Hundtricket" runs into dream girl (Josephine Bornebusch) there is a golden halo around her blond hair.
What does your dream girl look like?
- I have never had a dream girl, Linus says.
- Me neither. They have all looked different. It's personality, charm and humor one falls for, says Alexander.
"Hundtricket" is a short film that became a movie. The directors had plenty more to tell and all the actors agreed to be in the long version.
- We had damned fun during filming of the short film and now we had the chance of helping to form the characters, Alexander says.
Above all he got hooked on the fact that the movie shows guy's emotional sides and lacks all kind of machoness.
- In reality guys are just as romantic as girls can be, but it is unusual to show that side of guys on movies.
Alexanders own character Robinson-Micke is a parody of a new phenomenon: Docusoap celebrity. Micke hits on girls and tries to pass the line at bars because he is a celebrity.
- But all this is because he doesn't feel well. Even if he is a freaked character he has depths and to show that is the greatest challenge with this part.
If Alexanders character is in the docusoap world, you can find Linus' irresolute love seaker in "Notting Hill". Hollywoods answer to Linus Wahlgren is Hugh Grant.
- Yes, the directors think that, Linus says and laughs. It is a typical Hugh Grant-role I do, I guess.
Both Alexander and Linus are born into acting families and stooped into the business when they were children.
But after a few years they had enough. Both jumped off and decided never to bet on acting again.
- I stopped all together when I was 13 and said no to everything for seven years. I felt bad about myself because of all the attention, Alexander Skarsgård says.
Hard to understand for an outsider maybe. Attention is usually a road to better self confidence.
- I think it has the opposite effect. I was the same, says Linus. I stopped and started playing a lot of tennis instead and wanted to be a pro. But when I studied for some time I got a part in "Rederiet" as a 19 year old and then I understood that this was what I wanted to do for a living.
Apart from "Hundtricket" Linus Wahlgren is also in "Pippi Longstocking" on Göta Lejon. Alexander also plays theater, "Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on Södra Teatern.
Hollywood is going to have to wait for Alexander. Pop star life for Linus.
- We'll see what the future brings, they simply say.
It's a bit like "hundtricket".
What happens happens.