Alex Skarsgard wasn’t even supposed to do full-frontal on the ‘True Blood’ finale
It’s gotten to the point where Alexander Skarsgard is just an automatic post for me. Like, whenever we have new photos of certain people (Aniston, Hiddleston, Jolie, Cumberbatch, Hardy, Pitt, Fassbender), I’ll just post them regardless of what they’re doing. Skarsgard has become one of those people. And I’m not sure why. These photos aren’t even that interesting – Skarsgard was photographed by the paparazzi as he walked into the Chateau Marmont. Alex goes to the Marmont a lot. He parties there a few times a month and I guess he has meetings there during the day too.
I could go on and on about how tall he is (seriously, he’s a giant Viking), how his Swedish Thunder should not be contained in those terrible pants, or how Benedict Cumberbatch has officially brought back denim shirts for men. I like Alex’s denim shirt more than Cumby’s beloved denim though. Alex’s shirt makes him look broad and pec-tastic.
As for Alex’s Viking Thunder and how he went full-frontal on the Season 6 finale of True Blood, Alex’s costar Stephen Moyer told E! News that Alex was supposed to be wearing a “sack of destiny”:
It’s safe to say that True Blood fans were not expecting to see Alexander Skarsgård’s full frontal exposure when Eric went up in flames during last month’s season finale.
“It was never intended that way,” Stephen Moyer told me yesterday at the BAFTA LA Tea at the SLS Hotel. “It was never written to have him full frontal. Alex doesn’t like wearing his ‘sock’ or the ‘sack of destiny’ as we call it.'”
His sack of what?
“It’s the sack of destiny that covers everything,” Moyer laughed. “He doesn’t like wearing those so he had one in his room that day [but] he was the one who chose not to wear it.”
Moyer says the crew had unsuccessfully tried some “camera trickery” to hide the goods.
This made me think way too much about male nudity and how Hollywood treats the dong (any dong). It’s widely believed that Shame ended up with a NC-17 rating because of Michael Fassbender’s full-frontal scene, and director Steve McQueen fought against making any changes to the film. To the director, the male frontal nudity was important. They showed the Fassdong on purpose, and they paid the price for it with the rating and with which theaters would carry the film. But with Alex’s full-frontal, he probably only had to deal with HBO, and since HBO is a subscription channel, there are no censors. So Alex could make the decision himself that he didn’t want to wear the sack of destiny. So… does that mean actors can do more, explore more, and expose more on HBO rather than in a feature film?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
