Alexander Skarsgard Tells Yahoo OMG He Has No Interest In Leaving True Blood
There have been some rumors and assumptions about Alexander Skarsgard leaving True Blood to pursue a film career full time recently, which makes this interview from Yahoo OMG quite timely. In addition to not telling us much about season 5, being nude on camera, and his thoughts on being a sex symbol, Alex pretty emphatically declares that he has no desire to stop playing Eric Northman any time soon.
Q: In addition to True Blood, your film career is also taking off. Are you at all anxious to end your vampire duties?
Skarsgård: No, no. I love my work in the series. This is a great character and Eric is tremendously popular all over the world. It would be insane if I wanted to leave the series voluntarily. Right now I’m enjoying getting to do movies in between seasons and I’m trying to find good projects and see where that takes me. I remember what it’s like to spend years not getting any phone calls and not having any scripts sent my way. So I’m very happy to have True Blood to look forward to every year and I’m enjoying seeing my character and the series unfold. I don’t think it’s an accident that we have a very big following.
Q: Do you ever worry that playing such a popular character like Eric will create too strong an identification with audiences and overshadow your film roles in the coming years?
Skarsgård: No. Audiences are able to separate you from your other characters quite easily as long as you don’t play similar roles and of course no vampires! So I’ve been playing different kinds of characters in movies like [easyazon-link asin=”B006KH6CF4″]Melancholia[/easyazon-link], where I play a passive man, a much weaker man than Eric, who is very much an alpha male. Also my role in Battleship was very different. As long as I avoid playing vampires or similar roles in films, I don’t think audiences will have much difficulty separating me from Eric. I actually think the identification works in your favour because people think they know what you will be doing and then your character in a movie does something to surprise you.
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