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Alexander Skarsgård , born in Stockholm in 1976, is the eldest son of arthouse film stars Stellan Skarsgård. Outside Sweden, he was primarily known for his role as vampire Eric Northman in the US series “True Blood”. With “Legend of Tarzan” starts Skarsgård after numerous supporting roles (among others “Battleship”) now also as a leading actor in the cinema by.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: While Mr. Skarsgård, your Tarzan makes animal sounds and -gebärden and swings half naked with Liane through the jungle, but his famous cry is heard only from far. Were you the then too affig
Skarsgård: In addition, we have discussed at length. In the old movies with Johnny Weissmuller that has worked well, you know: the on-the-chest-beating and the “Aaaaahhooahhooaaahhh” -Geheul. Our film is rather bleak, so we were concerned that it might be unintentionally funny, if we do it like before. Actually, it’s a war cry, calling by Tarzan for hunting. With us it is therefore also throaty and deep, he should act scary. And this fear can be seen in the aforementioned scene you then also in the facial expression, played by Christoph Waltz villain. In this way we were able to integrate Tarzan cry in the movie without the ridiculous appeared
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. Your Tarzan is a brooding, emotionally zerquälter “Dark Knight” of the jungle. Why so serious
Skarsgård: The role has already been created in the script so, and I was very intrigued by this approach to explore particularly the dichotomy between man and beast. When the film opens, we see Tarzan as Lord Greystoke in London, he is an elegant British gentleman. The animal is still in it, but he suppressed it and no longer employed with it. But once he is back in the jungle, there is more and more back out of it. The animalistic finally dormant in each of us. Tarzan is also a lost boy : When he grows up in the monkey, he felt that he is different. Later, as an adult, in London, he tried to adapt there and to find a new family. But he remains lost between two worlds
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. This psychologizing is interesting but ultimately Tarzan remains always the noble white man who presents himself as the savior of Africa. How difficult was dealing with the society pictures of colonial, from which comes the template
Skarsgård: I have big problems with the presentation of the “races” in the literature of the late 19 . and early 20th century. Today we would call it a rather extreme, but at that time science and medicine were convinced that blacks are less intelligent than whites. The zeitgeist towards the end of the colonial era and industrialization was such that it was believed that it was necessary to teach the wild “Negroes” who obstinately evolutionarily nor between animal and human civilization
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. In order to facilitate the heavy heritage, the scriptwriters of Adam Hochschild’s bestseller “shadow on the Congo” were inspired, the reports of the criminal machinations of the Belgian king and colonial ruler Leopold
Skarsgård.: Yes, the plot of the film takes place in the Congo, where King Leopold had practically responsible for genocide, in which probably more than ten million people lost their lives. While he was in the rest of the world as a benefactor and philanthropist, he enslaved in Africa a whole country. It was very exciting, this story and to integrate this aspect in a big action-adventure movie. The role played by Samuel Jackson figure of the American Civil War veteran George Washington Williams has really given it. His open letter to King Leopold made in 1890 that the atrocities in the Congo were publicly
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. Clever to give Very Tarzan a historically authentic, African-American figure as Sidekick. But it solves the problem that the focus in the end is always on the white hero character
Skarsgard: Tarzan is with us a white man writes his story now once before , But it was very important to us that he is not the white savior precisely who saves the poor blacks. You are not helpless and weak, Belgian from evil king enslaved. You should feel and see that they are quite self can fight back and do so. Then and on their tribal differences and individualities have related director David Yates and the set and costume designer carefully. Tarzan is, along with Williams and Jane, part of their struggle for liberation, not their savior.
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Alexander Skarsgård as Tarzan
SPIEGEL ONLINE: the political consciousness is not the only feature of your Tarzan film, he also plays with relish with gender stereotypes: Jane must carry almost all the time about a chaste dress and has smart dialogue scenes, while the mainly your body must provide review. Were you jealous of your co-star Margot Robbie
Skarsgård: Oh, sometimes I would have loved so wore a dress that you can believe me! Mich physically transform into Tarzan, was great fun and a great challenge. But then I had it undergo a very strict diet. I was allowed to drink alcohol and had correspondingly little social life on the set. Since there have been incidents that I saw and thought Margot: Do you know what you have luck you
SPIEGEL: With the staging as a sexual object you have on your also very permissive and figure hugging role as vampire Eric Northman in the series “True Blood” no problem
Skarsgård: no, why should I? As long as I’m working on characters that have something to offer from the psychological point of view, I think about something not great. I think you should stay away as possible from vanities. If you are trying actively to be sexy, or you’re too worried about whether your fans see you in your new movie hot workest you no longer genuine. I always try to stay true to the character described in the script. Once I wonder if he is not better would look like with a different hairstyle or other clothes, I lost
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. Thanks to your physique you were already more often as a potential superhero performer into brought this week. Have you now deliberately snapped with Tarzan the prototypical superhero
Skarsgård: In fact, it was exactly what has already impressed me as a child for Tarzan, when my father my old the Weissmuller movies showed. The great thing about Tarzan was that he is a normal boy, who grew up in the jungle. There are no mutations, it does not come from outer space, or wearing a cape. Tarzan just used his head and his fists and needs to activate his primate instincts to survive. For me, lies precisely in Tarzan Super Power
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. If you still might choose another superhero himself, who would you like to play
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. Was there perhaps even a request the new “Star Wars” team led by director JJ Abrams
Skarsgård: Hahaha, I would of course tell you immediately! But no, there was not. . Here
In Video: The trailer for the movie “Legend of Tarzan”
” 10.885085574572 Legend of Tarzan “
USA 2016
original Title: “the Legend of Tarzan”
director: David Yates
script: Adam Cozad, Craig Brewer, based on the story of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Djimon Hounsou, Jim Broadbent
Rental: Warner Bros
length:. 109 minutes
Rated: from 12 years
Start: 28 July 2016
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