Time for my eighth status report for the Movie Madness Challenge. Here is my code for the films: New to me - N Repeat viewing - R I'll also be including how I viewed the films: DVD VHS (yes, we have a lot of those, and a VCR) Network TV Pay TV Internet In theatre
1 - Following in the footsteps of his Viking forebears, Sweden's Alexander Skarsgård strides victorious over any territory he chooses to conquer.
2 - Alexander Skarsgård - currently appearing as Eric Northman on True Blood
6' 4"
Eyes - Blue
Hair - Blonde
Type - Athletic / Mid-30's
He works as an actor / Director
Works in television / Film / Stage
3 - Alexander grew up in Stockholm, the oldest son of Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård and his mother My Skarsgård, a doctor. He has five younger brothers and one younger sister.
Appeared in several films as a child actor, including Åke och hans värld (Ake and His World) (1984)
Became a teen heartthrob after his role in Hunden som log (The Dog That Smiled) (1989)
Had an extensive credit list in Sweden before his first North American role in Zoolander as an airhead model (2001)
Appeared as Sgt. Brad Colbert in the HBO series Generation Kill, which follows an American marine unit in Baghdad (2008)
Next photo is straying into Not Safe For Work territory...
4 - Alexander keeps in tiptop shape - apparently, just because. His credits aren't as heavily weighted with the same amount of fight sequences as the previous hotties from my Thursday Thirteen Eye Candy series have had.
5 - The very delicious Mr. Skarsgård is technically still available, ladies. Though he is currently attached to California-bred actress Kate Bosworth, known for her roles in Superman Returns and 21.
6 - Alexander no doubt drew on his own experiences when he played Sergeant 'Iceman' Colbert in Generation Kill, having served with the Swedish Navy as a Patrol Leader.
7 - He has appeared for three seasons as vampire Eric Northman on HBO's True Blood, based on the bestselling novels by Charlaine Harris.
He's just my type of gray character. Willing to pursue Sookie when she is clearly involved with Bill. Willing to suffer to save his Maker. Not above dealing in vampire blood when that is forbidden. Not too proud to serve the King of Mississippi, if it means he can avenge his human family's demise at the king's hands.
8 - Remember my soft spot for a man in chains?
...well...
True Blood occasionally gives us a tied-up Eric, but his role as Sheriff of Louisiana's Area 5 keeps him more often in the dominating position.
As in the photo below, where Eric scornfully chides the Vampire King of Mississippi to die with dignity.
9 - And Alexander is an awesome crier.
10 - Alexander has worked hard to avoid typecasting, which apparently has not been easy. His early teen heartthrob status and his five-time win as Sexiest Man in Sweden make certain roles offered to him unavoidable. But Alexander persists with more fascinating choices, such as this cad character from the Swedish film Om Sara (About Sara).
11 - Recently Alexander competed against True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer in the Battle of the Fang to raise money for charity. The results were very, very close:
Team Bill Compton: $35,043 Team Eric Northman: $34,223
But Alexander dutifully wore the shirt designed for him by Stephen:
'Bill's Bitch'
12 - When asked by Polish FILM magazine about the fascination with vampires, Alexander answered:
"Maybe it’s because they have strength and perfection unreachable for us, the mortals. Gigantic life experience gives them wisdom and knowledge impossible for humans to even imagine during their short lives. There is both mystery and suffering in them. I do not find this fascination strange at all, I succumb to it as well."
13 - When asked about his look, Alexander replied:
"I dress myself, I do shopping myself, no stylist has ever helped me. I still bring most clothes from Sweden: Acne, Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair, Whyred. I feel good in such clothes. Perhaps I look a little bit strangely European, Swedish in California."
Michelle Helliwell says I'm looking forward to finishing my edits on SW and getting back to my WIP!! Hmmmm - this is actually a very thought provoking question.
Kelly Boyce says I look very serious in that picture. I must be thinking 'hurry up and snap it, the chocolate finally arrived!!'
Jehara says Having just seen Get Him to the Greek, I really want to read Booky Wook. I am a new fan of Russell Brand.
Geraldine over at My Poetic Path has a monthly prompt inspired by film titles.
"I’ve always been intrigued by movie titles," she writes. "Obviously, Hollywood and other film-makers work hard to weave their magic with the teaser that is the title. But what other roads could be explored with that very same phrase or word?"
This is actually a movie I haven't seen. There are a lot of those, which tends to confuse people who know that I went to film school. I wrote about this phenomenon over at my group blog, Popculturedivas:
It Could Happen to You follows the story of a Queens, New York cop (Nicolas Cage) who tips a diner waitress (Bridget Fonda) with the promise of half his lottery winnings - which turns out to be $4,000,000.00.
Could happen.
For Through the Opera Glasses today, I thought I'd take Geraldine's prompt and share with you some favorite TV shows and films that put my kind of quirky twist on the premise: It could happen to you...
It could happen to you...you're sent to live in the British countryside during the Blitz, and a game of hide-and-seek finds you hiding in a wardrobe that empties out into a land called Narnia. And the first person that you meet is a faun carrying an umbrella and an assortment of packages.
It could happen to you...your boss sends you to a small coastal Scottish town to convince the residents to sell out for Houston oil interests, and oh yes, to watch the sky for a comet which the boss wants named for himself. And a hot marine research scientist seems not only interested in you, but may be a mermaid.
It could happen to you...a respectable fruit and vegetable retailer should be able to find love in the Big City, but your heart belongs to the mermaid who saved you from drowning when you were a kid. And the naked woman who shows up at the Statue of Liberty reminds you of that haunting connection you once felt, but isn't this woman an obvious human, a frustrating one that you discover you finally can't live without?
It could happen to you...one night your trip home from downtown gets sidetracked, until you are seriously caught in the surreal zone between the last train and the first one for the next day. Will anything ever resemble normality again?
It could happen to you...you waitress in the diner of your small Louisiana town, trying not to hear the thoughts in other people's minds - because you're a telepath. Finally the most attractive man you've ever met enters the diner. You can't hear a thought from him at all. Because he's a vampire...who could ask for a more perfect boyfriend?
It could happen to you...your mysterious music teacher suddenly reveals himself when you show interest in a former suitor. Not only is your mentor irresistably hot, but he's also a homicidal stalker who retreats to his wind-up monkey music box when he gets upset.
It could happen to you...you seek the counsel of an old woman whom you've been told can get your unfaithful wife to return to you. When she casts a spell, you can see the sudden raid on her apartment by shapeshifters and officials arresting her for unauthorized use of magic. You discover you're a Light Other, and go to work for a secret service organization dedicated to watching over the activities of the Dark Others in an uneasy Cold War-like truce.
It could happen to you...you packpack across the Yorkshire moors with your college buddy, stumbling upon the creepiest pub in all of England. A nightmarish attack by a werewolf turns out not to be a nightmare at all, and your romantic chances with the hot nurse who tended you in hospital get seriously jeopardized every time the moon comes out.
It could happen to you...you find things heating up between yourself and a former fellow journalist, but you've hit on a monster story about British spy shop MI-5 and have to follow it. Arms-length objectivity flies out the window when you're pulled into a deadly hostage situation at a TV station and you end up working alongside MI-5 agents to sort things out. Why report on the news when you can make the stories that must be covered up yourself?
It could happen to you...you can't remember who you are or why high-powered killers are after you. Or why you are capable of dispatching an attacker with your bare hands. Or why these killers appear to be government officials.
Jennifer Leeland says I love the Bourne movies. Love them. Like candy.
Apprentice Writer says Julia! An astonishing thing happened. I saw 'Night Watch' at the library and CHECKED IT OUT! Even though it has fangs on the cover.
Shelley Munro says I'm a Bourne fan as well. There were some others here that looked interesting. :)
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