Alexander Skarsgård is explaining how being labelled “sexy” hurt his career.
The “Northman” actor told the Sunday Times how landing on sexy lists stopped people from taking him seriously.
“[A]fter my first job, I was on a stupid ‘sexy hunky hot list’ and then people didn’t take me seriously,” he said.
“If you want characters with depth but have been labelled ‘a dude who takes his shirt off,’ you’re not going to get those offers,” Skarsgård explained.
He also touched on how his role in “Zoolander” changed things. “I was left auditioning to play the boyfriend of a girl who gets killed in Scene 4 of a low-budget horror movie.”
The “Succession” star did note that he doesn’t “really know” if that was the reason he wasn’t getting the types of roles he wanted in North America.
“Starting out in Sweden, there was stuff about being tall and blond,” he said. “But most people [in Sweden] are tall and blond.”
“The Northman” hits theatres April 22.
