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Interview in the paper “Metro“: In “The Way Back” Gustaf Skarsgård speaks English with a Latvian accent. “I went to Riga on my own initiative before the shooting and had a dialect coach who helped me”. “The way back” is director Peter Weir’s first movie in seven years – and Gustaf Skarsgård’s Hollywood debut. The [...]

Here’s a written translation of this TV-interview: I: Have you seen Black Swan? G: Yes, it was really good. Natalie Portman was fantastic of course, but the whole movie was equally fantastic. I know people who thought NP was the only good thing about it, but I loved the entire movie. It’s a little psycho. [...]

From March 24! Gustaf talks about “The Way Back” and his career.

Gustaf gave an interview to “Stockholm City”, published March 24th. The actor Gustaf Skarsgård has an ambiguous relationship to his hometown Stockholm. “It’s a damn love / hate relationship,” he says. He did not think he would live to see his 30th birthday. But he did. Now he competes with the rest of the Skarsgård [...]

Wow…where the hell have I been? This interview was March 7th on Nyhetsmorgon, a Swedish morning show. He talks about “The Way Back”. I’ll work on exploding_lint to get some kind of english translation

Summary: Gustaf was the ”Shooting star” of Sweden 2007, and got the opportunity to go to Berlin and meet casting agents. He met Lina Todd who was looking for actors for TWB which would start filming one year later. It wasn’t a long casting process; one audition and one phone call. He was in New [...]

Gustaf visited Swedish radio station P3 and talked about how he got the part in “The way back”, and what his character is like. Two soundfiles in Swedish can be found here. English transcript of the interview is in progress…

Gustaf is back in Sweden and has given an interview to Expressen: The film “The Way Back” is the first stage of Gustaf Skarsgård’s Hollywood career. – My name creates curiosity in the US, but it doesn’t give me any work, says Skarsgård. When asked which other Swedish actors he socialized with during his sojourn [...]

Thank you Thank you Thank you to explodinglint on YouTube for translating these awesome Gustaf interviews! Talking about Puss: And this one FINALLY translated…on Skavlan from February 2009 talking about The Way Back:

Jim Sturgess Online has recently obtained the complete Press Book for Peter Weir’s The Way Back. This extensive 23-page document provides detailed background information on the film’s screenplay, production, and filming, as well as interviews and complete bios on the director, principle cast and film crew. Here’s some quotes from Gustaf, Voss, a Latvian priest [...]