Alexander Skarsgard Discusses His True Blood Threesome

Alexander Skarsgard is busy promoting [easyazon-link asin=”B005TJ7EFG”]Melancholia[/easyazon-link], and while he was at it, he talked to Moviephone about filming that controversial threesome dream sequence with Sookie, Bill and Eric in True Blood season 4.

I know love scenes on set are nothing but professional. But is it at all different when the other two members of the scene are married in real life? 
Not really. We’re good friends and professional actors. All three of us. So we know what we’re doing. And it’s like, I love Anna [Paquin] to death, but Steve [Moyer] obviously knows that our friendship is very platonic. So, sometimes it’s more awkward if you don’t know them. Steve knows that I’m not a threat.

Well, I’d be more like, “Oh, I hope I’m not imposing.”
Nah. And Steve was very sweet before we got in to all of that stuff. He said to me, “Dude, I just want you to know that I want you to feel comfortable with this and it’s not awkward at all. I love you and I know there’s no one I’d rather have doing these scenes with Anna and me because we’re friends. It’s not awkward at all and I don’t want you to hold back because then that’s going to be weird. Like, do what you have to do.” It was very great of him to say that.

(read the full interview, including his thoughts on playing “Eric Northman” forever, here…)