Why Alexander Skarsgård Was Ready To Turn Down The Lead In Apple TV's Murderbot

Once he started booking bigger characters, they were usually of the soldier or Viking variety, with a starring turn in the Iraq War miniseries "Generation Kill" and roles as vampire Viking Eric Northman on the HBO series "True Blood" and as an actual Viking in the Robert Eggers film "The Northman." Here's the thing, though: Alexander Skarsgård is just a weird little guy trapped in a big handsome body, and he rarely gets the chance to let that out. In an interview with Collider, Skarsgård shared that when he first heard about "Murderbot," he almost passed on it entirely because the name reminded him of something like "RoboCop" and he had just finished filming the physically and mentally brutal "The Northman."

Author: staff@slashfilm.com (Danielle Ryan)

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