#alexander skasgard

[gimarija]

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[babkaboy]

a few weeks ago my queen @sputnikan recommended me Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez saying “it reads like a star wars fanfic” and not only was she right but the book itself destroyed me into pieces and what a better way to get the brainrot out of me by drawing a bunch of scenes but with these space mfs. anyways if you enjoy paranormal shit, horror stuff and messed up father/son relationships please read that book

[violentdevotion]

misogyny always wins

[liceparade]

if shiv doesn’t fuck matsson i’m gonna

[rhube]

Controversial opinion: I don't mind this casting.

I am saying this as a non-binary person.

Should you try to cast non-binary people in non-binary roles? Yes, of course!

Is Alexander Skarsgard non-binary?

I have no idea and neither do you.

Listen: I have known people who have had to out themselves because they were criticised for working on LGBTQ+ things when people assumed they were cis and het.

I've also had the unpleasant experience of being possibly the only out non-binary person in a business, meaning that the business refused to report on salary equality for non-binary people because the sample sizes were so small that it would be possible to identify the people involved from the comparison. Given that it was me who forced HR to have non-binary as an option, I am fairly sure I was the first non-binary person to be recorded. I also knew several non-binary or questioning people on staff who were definitely not out and certainly hadn't talked to HR about it.

There are faaaaar more non-binary people than you think, and my experience has been than most of us aren't out.

To my knowledge, Alexander Skasgard publically presents as a cis man*. But he works in an industry where that works massively to his advantage - especially because it means he gets to be a leading man. There's no Oscars category for best NB actor.

Sure, he has strong paradigmatically male biological characteristics - he's very tall, broad-shouldered, and square-jawed - and I'm sure a lot of people were hoping for a more androgynous look. But I am agender and I could not possibly have more paradigmatically female biological characteristics. It does not mean I am feminine. It just means I'm short, have huge boobs, an hour-glass figure, small shoulders, a vadge, and a soft face.

If you only ever have androgynous-looking actors play non-binary characters on TV, it means I'll never be represented.

True, Murderbot is described as being 'generic human' in appearance, not clearly gendered in any way, but it's also a fighting machine and personally I imagine it being fairly tall.

I recently saw a Mastodon poll asking people if they imagined Murderbot's voice as 'male' or 'female', and it made me so angry! Voices AREN'T male or female. They are high or low or middling. There was no option for middling. You could even phrase it as baritone, tenor, alto, or soprano, but they didn't.

I have a high soprano voice, by the way. Several times I have been in choirs where I had to sing alone because I was the only one who could reach the notes.

Still agender.

Would it be great for Murderbot to be played by an out non-binary actor? Sure! Name one! No Googling!

[This is rhetorical, please don't reblog this post with names; I know they exist, the point is about numbers and general visibility.]

And yeah, there are almost certainly great non-binary actors out there - I used to act! I was in the National Youth Theatre! I think I was pretty good.

You wouldn't cast me as Murderbot, though. Regrettably, no one is ever gonna mistake me for a killing machine.

So, what is the pool of actors you have to draw on if you limit yourself to casting from out non-binary people? Even supposing you're open to complete unknowns.

It's pretty small.

Probably equivalent to the percentage of people who were willing to tell HR they were non-binary at my work.

And almost all of them probably put down a gender on forms for agents and casting directors because that is how you get work as an actor - there is Far More Pressure for that in acting than almost any other field I can think of.

I don't know how they did the casting call and it may be that they could have done it better than they did (or they may have tried very hard to find an NB actor who was right and failed - I don't know!). But that doesn't mean Alexander Skasgard is wrong for the role.

It definitely doesn't mean he should be hounded about it, so do not fucking do that, OK?

There is a very high chance that you know a lot of people who are non-binary that you don't know are non-binary. Especially among people in their 30s and 40s who are therefore old enough to have had an established acting career. As I've mentioned many, many times, most people in my age group were deliberately barred from knowing non-binary was an option until they were already adults and reasonably settled in how they'd decided to handle the gender nonsense that was the background radiation of their lives.

I'm happy Murderbot is getting a TV series. Alexander Skasgard is a great actor that I can see being pretty well-suited to the role in terms of acting range.

I have no reason to think he is secretly non-binary, but I also have no reason to think that he isn't. Always question what illicit gender stereotypes you're drawing on when you assume you can 'tell'.

Point is: this 'shame people until only those who are out as having that exact identity can have those roles' game is a dangerous one that hurts real people.

And also I don't want people shaming ME for thinking it's cool an actor I admire will be portraying my identity.

WE DON'T HAVE TO BE A BUMMER ABOUT FINALLY GETTING SOME PROMINENT NB REPRESENTATION.

See also: non-binary people are not where binary trans people are in terms of representation. We're more like where trans women were in the 80s and 90s. You know, back when getting a big male star to play a trans woman was actually a big risk and a show of support for the actor. Thankfully, there are now quite a few prominent trans women actors. It's still not easy, but if you wanted a big actor who was also an out trans woman, you would have far more options than you do for out non-binary actors.

Also, I don't think there is an exact equivalent to Murderbot's gender identity out there in the human world. I reckon agender is pretty close, being a complete lack of gender, but I do not have the same feels about the relationship between my body and my lack of gender that Murderbot does. My body was not manufactured and it has (as mentioned) pretty clear sexual characteristics that Murderbot lacks.

You will not find anyone who can authentically present Murderbot's experience as their own. And as a non-binary person the equation of my identity with non-humans and robots is pretty uncomfortable anyway.

I sure do hope they have SOME non-binary actors among the human cast, though. Given quite how many human non-binary people there are in the books, there is a broad opportunity to at least try to do acting calls that are open to non-binary people. Characters who are sketched much more loosely in the books than Murderbot.

Like, maybe it will turn out to be a complete cluster fuck, but we don't know enough about the production to say that it will be yet. I want to feel happy about this. I don't want to feel shamed because I think 'actually, I think he could be pretty good'.

And above all, the culture of shaming people until they prove their LGBTQ+ creds has to stop.

*And we should respect that. This post should NOT be read as speculating on his gender identity. Entirely the reverse!

[voluxpa]

B U K O W S K I ‘ S 

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die.

FATHER; fiodor bukowski, ft. viggo mortensen ((scénario recherché))

MOTHER; elizaveta bukowski, ft. nicole kidman ((prise))

FIRST SON; ivar bukowski, ft. alexander skasgard ((scénario recherché))

FIRST DAUGHTER; katerina bukowski, ft. katheryn winnick ((myself))

SECOND DAUGHTER; barbara bukowski, ft. margot robbie ((prise))

GRANDDAUGHTER; nastasia bukowski, ft. abigail cowen ((prise))

[lautrefemme91]

Like...Does someone knows if Alexander Skasgard improvised that kiss he gave to Greg in front of EVERYONE? ITS IMPERATIVE TO KNOW.

[kingofthewebxxx]

🎮 — favorite video game(s)? 😍 — celebrity crush(es)? 😖 — what annoys you? 😤 — what do you dislike the most about being part of the rpc? 💯 — share three random facts about yourself that your mutuals may not know about you.

Munday meme answers

Favourite video game(s)?

I love the Elder Scrolls and Dragon Age series’, yet my favourite and all-time permanent special interest will be Skyrim, I just love getting lost in the lore and the number of quests there are. Although I'm not fond of ‘fetch the sword from the cave’.

Celebrity Crush(a)?

At the moment Alexander Skasgard, Tom Ellis, Nina Dobrev

What annoys you?

Lack of respect, any form of this really annoys me. Everyone deserves to be valued and loved, we need more love in the world.

What do you dislike the most about being part of the rpc?

The hate that is spread around sometimes, I don't understand why people would want to do that, spread love and kindness and joy. You wouldn't want people to be mean to you so why would you do that? Spread love and passion for roleplaying, not hate, and support your fellow writers!

Share three random facts about yourself that your mutuals may not know about you.

I tend to listen to the same songs or even song for many hours until changing it to another, the cycle then likely repeats itself

Jim was the first character I ever role-played as

I do martial arts

Thank you!

[shit-talk-turner]

and correct me if i'm wrong but he came out publicly with Taylor few days after the event that Alexa was with Alexander Skarsgard, He publicly acknowledged Taylor in photos taken by paparazzi on 12/ 06/2015, he wanted to show Alexa that he was also with a tall, blonde and blue-eyed Nordic-looking woman. by the way AMAZING photos of the two, it looks to have been taken by paparazzi hired by him / so the party was on June, 8, where Cam was singing and Alexa was with Skasgard. And on June, 16 Alex publicly acknowledge his romance with Taylor. Wow!

Very interesting to have the timeline reiterated like that. Thanks everybody for bringing up this veryyyyyy interesting topic.

[star-going-supernova]

Hi Star. Apparently we have the official title for the GVK sequel. Apparently it's "Godzilla & Kong"... yeah, that's it, LOL. Oh, also I was wrong about an earlier post, Nathan Lind isn't returning. I confused his actor, Alexander Skasgard, with new actor Dan Stevens. My bad.

Wow, so creative of them. Y'know, when all us fic writers complain about how hard it is coming up with titles, I didn't expect professional movie makers to be among us.

Ah well, I didn't have much of an attachment to him anyways.

[parishqs]

mw older fcs?

Oh oh oh oh!

PAUL RUDD, Michelle Yeoh, Pedro Pascal, Mousa Kraish, John Cho, Angelica Ross, Travis Van Winkle, Chris Pine, Rami Malek, Jake Johnson, David Harbour, Diego Luna, Matthew Lillard, Lucy Liu, Christina Applegate, Idris Elba, Jason Scott Lee, Matthew Gray Gubler, Ma Dong-Seok, Halle Berry, Jessica Alba, Alfonso Herrera, Andy Samberg, Morena Baccarin, Vera Farmiga, John Krasinski, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Lucy Alves, Timothy Olyphant, Neve Campbell, Shelley Conn, Katheryn Winnick, Lewis Tan, Murray Bartlet, Steve Carell, Oscar Isaac, Steven Yeun, Jessica Chastain, Jesse Williams, Alexander Skasgard, Taika Waititi, Nicole Kidman, Mark Consuelos, Marisa Tomei, Penelope Cruz, Sofia Vegara, Samala Hayek, Poorna Jagannathan, Rachel McAdams.

That's just to name a few!

[eternallovers65]

I need to know if alexander skasgard remembers shooting the scenes where he goes bezerk in the northman or if his brain also went bezerk mode and shut it down, and if he did find it therapeutic to scream like a wolf in front of the fireplace

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[alexskarsgardnet]

New Project for Alex! He's joining Season 3 of HBO's Succession!

Alexander Skarsgård to Play a Confrontational Tech Founder in ‘Succession’ Season 3

Skarsgård joins the highly anticipated season, which is currently filming.

We all know that HBO plus Alexander Skarsgård equals great television, with work on True Blood and Big Little Lies, so naturally, the Swedish actor has been cast in the third season of Succession. The wait for the highly anticipated return of the Emmy-winning drama is extremely high, particularly after sweeping awards season this past year. Adding Skarsgård to their already stacked cast continues to remind audiences that Season 3 of Succession is closer than we think, as production is currently underway in New York City.

Skarsgård is listed as a guest star for the third season, in which he will play Lukas Matsson, a successful, confrontational tech founder and CEO. As avid fans of the show will know, it’s hard to deduce character motives and decisions, so it will be interesting to see how the character of Lukas will play a role in the impending family feud, and which side he will align himself with.

Skarsgård has already proven that he and HBO make a killer duo, as he recently won an Emmy award for his layered performance in the first season of Big Little Lies. HBO also gave Skarsgård his breakout role as Eric Northman, the charismatic Viking favorite of vampire hit True Blood. Skarsgård recently starred in Godzilla vs. Kong, and will soon be appearing in Robert Eggers’ new film The Northman, in which Skarsgård is said to sport a particularly gruesome and awesome performance.

The third season of Succession is confirmed to premiere in late 2021.

Sources/Thanks:  Article:   Kristen Santer for Collider (x, x), Graphic courtesy of Collider, Original Portrait by Denis Rouvre for The Observer Magazine (February 2018)

[a-state-of-bliss]

Vogue US May 2011 - Alexander Skarsgard & Lara Stone by Peter Lindbergh

[deartrashcan]

I'm just here thinking about the fact that Ray was casually masturbating right next to Brad