Bill Skarsgård
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Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård
Birthplace Vällingby, Sweden
Birth Date August 9, 1990
Ethnicity Northwestern European
Nationality American
Career Actor, model
Color Season Soft Summer
Notes and Motifs
Roles include the Swedish films Simple Simon, Behind Blue Skies, The Crown Jewels, and Simon & the Oaks, and then the international productions Anna Karenina (2012), Allegiant, Atomic Blonde, the It films, Battlecreek, Assassination Nation, Deadpool 2, Villains, Nine Days, The Devil All the Time, Barbarian, and John Wick: Chapter 4, as well as television’s Hemlock Grove, Castle Rock, and Clark
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Skarsgård: "To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge."
Skarsgård: "In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in."
Skarsgård: "I'm a pretty private person, so I don't mind not being recognized."
Skarsgård: "I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that."
Skarsgård: "I've never understood the appeal of feeling really scared. I know that people do find it really thrilling. For me, artistically, it needs to be worth the effort of me feeling uncomfortable watching it."
Skarsgård: "I wouldn't want to be associated with one character, because I want to be able to do different roles."
Skarsgård: "I've always been a night person. There's a sense of virtue attached to getting up in the morning and doing things and starting the day, and I always felt bad for not being that person."
Skarsgård: "I think every character that I play has a certain sort of tone or an energy level to them."
Skarsgård: "I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate. I think you have to feel guilty about it. I think it makes you a better person to keep reminding yourself."
Skarsgård: "Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it."
Skarsgård: "I needed to be myself and find my own identity."
Skarsgård: "I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people again after being by yourself for such a long time. It's really a horrific thing. It's definitely worth considering it as torture. We're just not meant to be in solitary confinement."
Skarsgård: "I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in."
Skarsgård: "I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago."
Skarsgård: "Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgård.'"
Skarsgård: "I can't see myself as a very domesticated person, with a suburb house and stuff like that."
Skarsgård: "My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive."
Skarsgård: "Playing Pennywise will change my life and career forever. It's going to change my path. And who knows where that path might lead me?"
Skarsgård: "If you ask anybody what they think of clowns, it's associated as much or more with something crazy and scary as it is something joyful."
Skarsgård: "In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that."