Alexander Skarsgard Says His First U.S. Movie 'Zoolander' 'Gave Me a Warped Idea of Hollywood'

Alexander Skarsgårdhad a pretty easy time getting his first acting job in America.

“I had just started acting and I was doing theater in Stockholm and my father [Stellan Skarsgård] was shooting a movie in LA and I was visiting,” Skarsgård, 42, said of his actor father. “I obviously didn’t have representation out there but his agent asked, ‘You’re in town, would it be fun to go to an audition? Do you think that’d be interesting?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, it’d be a great story to tell my friends back home.’ ”

Things quickly got more serious than theTrue Bloodactor was anticipating.

“Two weeks later I was riding around with Ben Stiller shooting,” Skarsgård joked. “But it also gave me a warped idea of Hollywood, ’cause I remember after that I was like telling my friends back in Sweden, ‘It’s a piece of cake! You go to LA and you walk in a room and Ben Stiller is there, you have a little chat and next thing you know, they’re flying you to New York to shoot.’ And then it took three years until I got my next job.”

Skarsgård did several small roles after the hit comedy before booking his star-making turn in the HBO vampire showTrue Bloodas Eric. The actor quickly became one of Hollywood’s go-to hunks after that, with blockbusters like theLegend of Tarzanand his award-winning role inBig Little Lies.

But most importantly, Skarsgård also took time out of his busy schedule to come back to the role that started it all in the 2016 sequelZoolander 2.

source: people.com