"Few people would rather give than receive on their birthday, but Alexander Skarsgård is one of them. Alexander's birthday falls on August 25th and he has requested fans not to send him gifts but instead to put their money where it can help the most.SkarsgårdNews.com has acknowledged Alexander's request, accepted the mission, and working alongside Alexander, is coordinating its first charity auction to benefit Alex's charity of choice, Amnesty International. Amnesty International is a global organization dedicated to protecting people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. They investigate and expose abuses, educate and mobilize the public, and help transform societies to create a safer, more just world. Through Amnesty’s research and action, governments have been persuaded to stop human rights violations and change their laws and practices. Death sentences have been commuted. Torturers have been brought to justice and prisoners of conscience have been released. Public support of SkarsgårdNews.com’s charity auction will help ensure that this important work continues.The auctions will begin on August the 22nd and last for over 2 months. New items will be presented each week and will be sold before the next item is offered for bidding."
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"Few people would rather give than receive on their birthday, but Alexander Skarsgård is one of them. Alexander's birthday falls on August 25th and he has requested fans not to send him gifts but instead to put their money where it can help the most.SkarsgårdNews.com has acknowledged Alexander's request, accepted the mission, and working alongside Alexander, is coordinating its first charity auction to benefit Alex's charity of choice, Amnesty International. Amnesty International is a global organization dedicated to protecting people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. They investigate and expose abuses, educate and mobilize the public, and help transform societies to create a safer, more just world. Through Amnesty’s research and action, governments have been persuaded to stop human rights violations and change their laws and practices. Death sentences have been commuted. Torturers have been brought to justice and prisoners of conscience have been released. Public support of SkarsgårdNews.com’s charity auction will help ensure that this important work continues.The auctions will begin on August the 22nd and last for over 2 months. New items will be presented each week and will be sold before the next item is offered for bidding." Everyone should definitely pick up the latest Rollingstone magazine for the yumminess that is Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and fiancée Stephen Moyer. I will be looking for that next time i go shopping!
SOURCE "Don't forget to pick up a copy or two of this weeks Tv Guide, which is out this Thursday! It's all about True Blood and features all kids of images, interviews of Anna, Alexander and Stephen. Also you can pick either from a Sookie and Bill cover or Bill and Eric! Personally, I'm gonna strive for the the Eric and Sookie cover. But either way pick it up!
"It’s one of the two sexy double covers — Anna and real-life fiance Stephen Moyer are on the other one! “Bill is her first love,” Anna says of her character Sookie. “Regard of how much trauma there’s been, they have a really intense connection. But she has rather active fantasties about Eric…” Stephen hints, “Sookie does something we haven’t seen her do yet for Bill. It being the roller-coaster ride that their relationship is, something happens immediately that makes things go awry." SOURCE The NY Daily News spoke to actor Alexander Skarsgard on showing so much skin in some episodes of True Blood.
In a scene straight out of most women's fantasies, sexy and often topless "True Blood" star Alexander Skarsgård admits he loves being in the buff. "I'm not a prude. I'm from Sweden, and it's different there," he told popeater.com. "I love to be naked. It's kind of liberating."As Eric Northam, the "True Blood" star has already flashed his taut behind for audiences and engaged in numerous sexually charged scenes with a number of his female co-stars. But the 33-year-old actor, who is reportedly dating Kate Bosworth, will not bare all for no reason. "If it makes sense, I'll do nudity, and it's made sense every single time I'm naked on the show," he told popeater.com. He doesn't even mind stripping in front of men. "I've got a very, very graphic scene coming up [in "True Blood"] that I shot with a man," he told the gossip Web site. Despite his affinity for saucy scenes, however, Skarsgård tends to be attracted more to dark material than to romance. In fact, he only agreed to appear in Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" music video, which was directed by fellow Swede Jonas Ackerland, if it didn't include romantic cliches. "I didn't want to do something if we'd just be walking down the beach or holding hands or that sort of thing," he told the gossip Web site. "When Jonas pitched it, he was like, 'It won't be anything silly. You're going to try to kill her and push her off a balcony and then she'll come back and she'll poison you and you die.' " Skarsgård thought it sounded "cool" and immediately accepted the gig that ultimately raised his profile. "I worked on it for six hours at least, six or seven hours, and I guess a lot of people saw it," he told popeater.com. "The thing is, you can work on a movie for three months, and no one sees it, and then you do something like this for six hours, and that's what people talk about!" All that exposure for so little work was the perfect fit for the actor. "I'm just going to quit acting and do music videos from now on," he joked to the gossip Web site. "I'm over 'True Blood.' I'm officially quitting right now!" SOURCE Ew.com has done an article on the love triangle between Bill, Sookie and Eric and the presence of Nazi's in this season.
"How difficult it is to be sleek, sexy, and swift — all qualities True Blood displayed so effectively last season — when you're straining to introduce new friends and enemies to your audience. That's the challenge of True Blood's third season. There's so much going on with the characters to whom we're committed (Anna Paquin's Sookie, Stephen Moyer's Bill, Alexander Skarsgård's Eric, Rutina Wesley's Tara, and Sam Trammell's Sam Merlotte, to skim the surface) that the first few episodes of the new season are crammed to bursting with plotlines — and faces — old and new. The big addition this season is the introduction of werewolves to the true bloodiness of the show. Remorseless shifters with superstrength who get hopped up on vampire blood as though it were some combination of Ecstasy and crack, the werewolves arrive with a World War II backstory complete with flashbacks of Eric and Godric (Allan Hyde) posing in Nazi uniforms. In a show this stuffed with goodness, may I offer a small suggestion? Flashback scenes just take up valuable time we could be spending in the present. Picking up from season 2's vampire-napping of Bill, the opening hours of True Blood follow Sookie's frantic search for him. This accomplishes a few things simultaneously. We get a lot of Bill the way we like him most: trapped, angry, savage in his attempts to escape his werewolf captors. We also get Sookie having to decide whether she'll take Eric up on his offer to help, knowing that proximity to the Blond God of the Dark often leaves that gal all swoony. The drawback? Too many scenes of a vulnerable Sookie, running around squawking to anyone in sight that someone needs to help her. New faces include James Frain as Franklin, a vampire who becomes involved with Tara; Denis O'Hare as the foppish vampire King of Mississippi; and — in a crucial role from Charlaine Harris' sourcebooks — Joe Manganiello (One Tree Hill) as Alcide, a werewolf smoothy. In the series' second week, we meet the mother of our beloved Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis); she's played by Alfre Woodard in a terrific performance that quickly exceeds anything she's doing on the new TNT show Memphis Beat. What show creator Alan Ball has brought to True Blood's pulp-horror trappings is a unifying theme of power versus helplessness: an insistence that victims are capable of toughening, of overcoming their powerlessness to become smarter and stronger. It's a positive message that Ball and his writers and directors smuggle into a show that only seems to revel in decadence, gore, and duplicity. True Blood's dirtiest little secret is that it may be among the most ethical, even righteous, shows on television." SOURCE EW Has a preview of the cover of Entertainment this week and it features the love triangle we all adore; Sookie, Bill and Eric!
"Summer is heating up and so will television screens with Sunday’s return of HBO’s sexy and scandalous vampire series, True Blood. We’ve got the scoop on the new season, which includes scary werewolves, even scarier new vampires, and the search for Bill Compton. We’ve also got your introduction to all the key new players, including werewolf Alcide, played by Joe Manganiello. And Manganiello tells EW that — shocker! — it didn’t take long for his clothes to come off. “Having been a fan of the show, you know you’re going to be naked at some point,” says the newcomer. “I will say that I was welcomed into the brotherhood of the sock. When you’re naked on the show, you have to wear a sock, and it’s not on your foot.” Anna Paquin (who plays Sookie Stackhouse) is certainly used to getting naked on the show, but says the graphic love scenes are the least of her concerns. “It doesn’t really bother me,” she admits. “I’m really close with all of our cast, and we’ve all seen each other in various compromising and odd situations.” The actress is, of course, particularly close with fiancé Stephen Moyer (who plays Sookie’s vampire lover Bill), and Moyer says their real-life romance definitely adds to their love scenes. Jokes the actor, “I think that one great bonus is we don’t need a fluffer.” In addition to serious True Blood scoop, we also present the 10 Must-See Shows of Summer, giving you all the advance intel on the return of favorites like Mad Men and Jersey Shore, as well as a rundown on hot new shows like The Big C and Haven. What other shows made the list? You’ll have to check out the issue and see for yourself! For more on True Blood and all the hottest summer TV shows, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands Friday, June 11." SOURCE What's on Tv UK did a really nice interview with Alexander Skarsgard on his viking vampire charcter, Eric Northman and the attention he's been getting.
What’s the best thing about playing Eric, the 1000-year-old Viking vampire in True Blood? "As an actor, the last thing I want to play is a typical handsome leading man. It’s always great when you play a complicated character like Eric." So there’s more to him than just biting necks? "In the first series, people thought he was just a bad guy, but there’s a lot more to him than meets the eye. We’re now seeing his loyal, caring and sensitive side. Don’t get me wrong, he’s still the same old Eric – there’s just more to him than being an evil vampire." Why do you think True Blood is so successful? "It’s over-the-top, wild, sexy and funny. Viewers can also look at the vampires and draw parallels with our society in terms of alienation and prejudice." Do you have a problem with the show’s sex and violence? "It’s pretty full-on and very graphic and gory, but sex and violence are always something that attracts an audience. I don’t have any problems with getting naked." Your father Stellan is one of Sweden’s most famous actors. Did he encourage you to take up acting? "My parents never dragged me to auditions, things just happened. I had lots of TV roles when I was a kid, but the fame was scary and I hated people staring at me on the street. When I was 13 I decided I didn’t want to do it anymore." What made you take it up again? "When I was 20, I moved to Leeds for six months. I was watching football, hanging out, getting drunk and into trouble. I was wondering what I should do with my life and decided to give acting one last go." Are you more at ease with fame these days? "Actually, I am flattered by the attention. People come up and want autographs and take pictures, but I have no crazy stalkers after me." What was it like being in Lady Gaga’s video for Paparazzi? "I didn’t know Lady Gaga at all before. She was really cool and interesting. She’s very driven and we had a blast." Are you a music fan? "I’d much rather be a rock star than an actor. My favourites are Van Morrison and The Clash. Because I’m Swedish, people think I must like ABBA, but they were always much bigger in the rest of the world than they ever were in Sweden." SOURCE Digital Spy spoke with Alexander Skarsgard, where he revealed some of the plot we could expect for Season 3.
Alexander Skarsgård has revealed that his character is out for revenge in True Blood's third season. The 33-year-old actor, who plays vampire Eric Northman on the HBO series, told Entertainment Weekly that the third run will also see his alter ego become more and more intrigued by Anna Paquin's Sookie Stackhouse. "He will continue to explore the whole Sookie thing and what that's all about," he said. "He's trying to figure out what’s different about her. He's intrigued by that. "And in addition to that, there's something that happened a thousand years ago that he's still carrying in his heart. All I'll say is he's trying to avenge someone." SOURCE Examiner.com caught up with one of the leading vampires of Shreveport at the In Style Golden Globes Party.
"True Blood hunk Alexander Skarsgard looks boyishly handsome Dec. 8 at InStyle magazine’s special Golden Globes party in L.A. Skarsgård, 33, is set to begin filming the highly anticipated third season of True Blood later this month. When asked to describe his on-screen alter ego Eric Northman, Alexander says the bad-boy vampire is like a majestic lion. "Someone as powerful and experienced as [Eric] doesn't need to show what he is," Skarsgård tells French magazine Générique. "He only has to whisper, and people listen and obey." Alexander adds: "I was inspired by a tv documentary on lions that I saw. The way the male moves--confident, graceful, calm and quietly menacing. Make a wrong move and you're dead. In his heart, Eric is a lion, an animal." Of course, Skarsgård's striking 6'4" physical persona adds to his character's mystique and sex appeal. But Alexander says Eric has a soft, sentimental side as well. "[Eric] has a sensitive side, is passionate, and can be a valuable friend," explains Alexander. "He does not like many people, but those he loves, he is very dedicated to." Skarsgård, who has been voted the Sexiest Man in Sweden for the past five years, is the son of Swedish star Stellan Skarsgård, 58 (Angels & Demons, Ronin, Good Will Hunting). The Stockholm-born Alexander became an international sex symbol after being cast as the brooding Eric in True Blood in 2008. The first season of the hit series received widespread critical acclaim and won several awards, including a Golden Globe and an Emmy. The naturally lanky Alexander, who has complained of being "too skinny," stays fit by lifting weights and running. Skarsgard recently revealed that there will be a lot of nudity and sex in the upcoming season of his hit HBO series. “I’m extremely excited to get naked!" he said. We're sure his fans share his enthusiasm. The third season of True Blood begins shooting in L.A. later this month SOURCE. |