Alexander Skarsgard covers the Spring/Summer edition of GQ Style Australia, which makes perfect sense because the issue comes out in September. I don’t even know… I guess it doesn’t matter that much. It’s always nice to see some new Skarsgard pics, so whatever. Alex is a decent enough “model” for magazines, and he has that ability to still look masculine and mature even when he’s posing in clothes that would make a lesser man look like a rent boy. A purple deep V-neck and white jeans? I’m sorry, GQ Style, but HELL TO THE NO. Obviously, this photo shoot is heavy on the arm-p0rn. If you’re anything like me, you’re now engaging in a “What would be like to lick Alex’s biceps?” fantasy. Just so. Anyway, here are highlights from the GQ piece:
Being in the Swedish military in his early twenties, undergoing training for 15 months: ‘We were out in the woods in the middle of the winter for 10 days. We didn’t really have any food or any sleep. It got to a point where people started to hallucinate and, you know, talk to their weapons. And cry. There was a moment where you’re, like, ‘I’m gonna die in five minutes.’ We were freezing cold and so tired and hungry. We came back to the barracks after 10 days and the captain said, ‘Now you’re gonna go out and run 20 miles with your backpacks.’ People f**king lost it. We thought we’d be out there for another 24 hours. People were dancing back to the barracks.’
He loves taking off his clothes: ‘Nudity is great. If it makes sense in the script, I really don’t care.’
On his experience at Comic-Con: “There was a motorcade from the hotel in through the garage and up into the building… [The fans’ screaming was] deafening.”
On his upbringing: “Most of my dad’s friends were actors, directors, artists, musicians. It was artistic and lovely.”
He’s such a Viking. Truly. But I do wonder if he’s got a girlfriend – I think his rumored girlfriend Alicia Vikander is a much better possibility than Anne V or Ellen Page or even Charlize Theron. The idea of Charlize and Alex together… it still weirds me out. They just look so much alike. But the idea of Alex with a beautiful little brunette Swede? Sexy. I will lose it if he ever dates an Indian girl (like me), though. Absolutely LOSE IT.
Photos courtesy of GQ Style Australia via The Mail.
They always ask him the same boring questions. I can’t even count how many times I’ve read about his military service and how much he loves nudity. These interviewers need to step up their game. Lame!
aghhhhhhhhhh chest hair aghhhhhhhhhhh arms aggggggggh moist
*LOL* 😀
+1!!! LOL
HAHAH!!! I totally agree!!
I co-sign spugzbunny’s post and would like to add: hands, lips, eyes and neck. For reasons. Lots and lots of reasons. 🙂
HAHAHAHA, +100000
Totes agree with the inability to form coherent thoughts while looking at his arms…chest hair…lips…a,jsbjdh
That cover picture does nothing for me.
Yeah, the cover isn’t great, but the rest of the pics? Gorgeous as ever.
@Beth: Co-sign. I don’t think he’s boring but so many of his interviews sure are..
And I find him incredibly sexy here. As always *UNF*
Arms.
That is all.
Not a fan of the cover, but he’s always sexy.
sexy.. always sexy..
Well good morning chest & biceps! The article, in full, is actually good.
If you could all proceed to form an orderly queue behind me.
Lol! Having lived in a communist country, I loathe queuing so I think I’ll pass on this one.
Well, it is spring soon in Australia…
I think he was trying to look vulnerable or innocent. He looks like he’s severely constipated. Very uncomfortable looking, I can smell it from behind the screen.
+1 Ha!
I’m glad I read all the posts before posting because the look of constipation, the sheer worry of such like a toddler, it is hilarious!!
nice arms.
not crazy about how they’ve got his hands up in his face for every single shot tho..
Sorry ladies I just don’t get the allure, am I missing something? granted in these photos he looks much better than any photos I have seen of him but I guess I just don’t see it ?
I am right there with you. I just don’t get the appeal of this guy. I’ve read that his a ppeal has alot to do with his portrayal of his character on True Blodd, but since I don’t have HBO I guess I’ll never get it.
In candids his beady, little eyes always seem to be red-rimmed and watery as if he’s been crying or has allergies. He has a bulbous nose and his skin sometimes appears clammy. He just looks sickly to me.
Gee tell us how u really feel! To me he is a big meh
For the show, they rim the eyes of the actors playing vampires with red eyeshadow- http://www.beautybloggingjunkie.com/2009/10/interview-with-brigette-ellis-lead.html
@Sarah: I’m not talking about the show because like I’ve said I don’t have HBO. I’m talking about what he’s eyes look like on the red carpet.
Agree with Jinni — especially about his eyes.
Jinni-They film nights a lot. It takes a lot out of you. He seems to do a lot of random red carpet appearances while they are filming and you’d look like crap too if you had just done an 8pm-5am work day.
Trust, working night shoots sucks so beyond anything else. And they do back to back night shoots. Everyone comes out with red eyes and pale, clammy skin. I think he looks like that some times because he’s tired and messed up from the weird hours he works.
I do get what you mean about his rather bulbous nose but I just want to kiss it. Different strokes for different folks.
I don’t get the Fassy Fascination or my panties in a bunch over Cumberbatch, but I like that not everyone goes for the same ‘thing’. That would boring.
I’m pretty sure he has the same face expressions when he sits on the toilet. Not a sexy thing.
Spring started a couple of days ago in australia… so it makes perfect sense.
It didn’t even occur to me that the Australian Spring was about to start, I was only thinking of the fashion lines and the timing of when designers will put out there Spring/Summer lines.
There are Australian designers, you know.
Yep, it’s spring here. Which for Melbourne means being overcast and blowing a gale.
I think our seasons are actually closer to what all the designers are doing, aren’t they? Like all the desiners are so far ahead that they’re now starting their 2013 spring/summer stuff?
Alex isn’t with Alicia. She has a non-Swedish boyfriend.
Biceps porn? How about hand porn! Who wouldn’t love those hands roaming all over them?
I LOVE the last pic-very hot.
Otherwise he is mostly “meh” to me.
But I do agree-he does have great biceps AND great hands.
The cover photo is rubbish. The other photos are decent. He’s a lovely man and a good model.
The quotes are so boring. £10 to the writer brave enough to ask him a new question – any new question. Alex – do you prefer white bread or wheat bread, and why?
the interview itself is kind of nice. these “highlights” aren’t exactly that. you can read the article http://askarsswedishmeatballs.tumblr.com/post/30770142496/heres-the-full-gq-article-definitely-read-it-if
Well Hello Handsome!!! Even though he looks constipated in the first pic he is just gorgeous!!!
‘Nudity is great. If it makes sense in the script, I really don’t care.’
*Dies*
Why do photographers always do this to this poor man? The sad, pensive pose doesn’t do him any favors. That said, I’d still hit it.
This is a terrible photoshoot. Is he supposed to be giving us “little lost boy?” I’m not loving it. Give me more behind the eyes, b/c he is HOT HOT HOT and this photoshoot isn’t doing him any favors.
+1 for the chest hair, though!
good god look how big his hands are – i just want them to wrap around my nape and tilt my head for the best kiss ever
I just feel like I’ve seen that cover/style of photos from him a thousand times already. Time to mix it up! Not TV Evangelist holding a lamb mix it up, but still…something different.
I think he’s beautiful, even with the constipated expressions, but I wish they would had him sit up straight in the photos, especially the cover. That hunched-shoulder look reminds me of the many times as a child when my mother would come up behind me and poke me hard between the shoulder blades saying, “Stand/sit up straight or you’re going to end up with a hump like your [94-year-old] grandmother!”
I thought the last True Blood season was so awfully bad it kind of lowered the sexyness level of everyone’s involved. Hope it’ll be back soon .
To each her own. I’m just not seeing what everyone else sees. He has a stellar personality?
I don’t find him sexy either. He’s cute but not someone I would ever fantasize about. I don’t watch True Blood so that may be the reason.
He reminds me of a blond version of Mac on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Cute, but I’m not getting the vibes the other ladies are – yeah, maybe I need to watch True Blood.
Why would GQ chose to use a photo of Skarsgard, showing off a face full of derp?
Seriously.
That is a awful picture of him.
And he is not a bad looking man. But that cover shot of him makes him look like Karl, from Sling Blade.
And that is not a positive.
“A face full of derp”
AHAHAHAHA! Never heard that one before.
“Nudity is great.”
excellent! *rubs hands together like mr. burns*
He looks scared in the pics. Not his best look 🙂
FFS, the man is HOT. Why is he posing like a six year old boy who has just been told off for emptying the cookie jar??
ANYYYTHING for the Skarsgard!!! nommmmmmies drool face
He does nothing for me.
The cover photo is awful, but the size of those hands. Dear lord.
I normally do not find blonde men attractive UNTIL Alexander…yum! He won me over as Eric on Trueblood. He is scorching hot!
Not a great photo shoot to be sure, but he is a gorgeous man. So masculine.
Dee-li-cious!
I’m not loving the cover, but otherwise he looks GORGEOUS in this spread!
LOL these pictures are pure cheese, except the last one… and DAMN, he’s got magnificent hands *_*