Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD Favorite Place Has 20,000 Islands

Episode Date: July 1, 2025

This week, Alexander Skarsgård joins Seth and Josh on the pod! Alexander talks all about growing up in Stockholm (where he also joins the podcast from), what it was like having a more “hippie” upbringing, his experience growing up with a ton of siblings, one of his family’s favorite vacation spots that’s filled with islands, his memories from skiing to the South Pole with Prince Harry, and so much more! Plus, he chats about his TV show, Murderbot! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 Family Trips is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Theme song written and performed by Jeff Tweedy. ------------------------- Support our sponsors: BeamFor a limited time, you can get UP TO 35% off plus 2 FREE gifts when you go to shopbeam.com/TRIPS and use code TRIPS at checkout Visit BaltimoreBaltimore is just a short drive or train ride from New York, Philly, and D.C. Plan your visit today at Baltimore.org Baltimore: You won’t get it ‘til you get here! ------------------------- About the Show: Lifelong brothers Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers ask guests to relive childhood memories, unforgettable family trips, and other disasters! New Episodes of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers are available every Tuesday. ------------------------- Executive Producers: Rob Holysz, Jeph Porter, Natalie Holysz Creative Producer: Sam Skelton Coordinating Producer: Derek Johnson Video Editor: Josh Windisch Mix & Master: Josh Windisch Episode Artwork: Analise Jorgensen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, Baji. Hi, Shafi. How are you? I'm good. Can I tell you something I did this morning? Yeah. I was on the Howard Stern show. Oh, that's fun.

It's very fun and it also, it's very fun because dad, more than us because he was a commuter, dad used to listen to Howard Stern all the time. I feel like he would come home and he would tell us how funny Howard Stern was. And so it's a very nice, it's a very nice circle of life thing to be doing Howard Stern show.

You, and do you like, you sit in your own little booth when you were at Stern? Yeah, you just sit in a little booth and you just talk to Howard Stern. That's nice. That's great. I will say the other thing is I feel like when it starts, I'm always like a little bit nervous, you know, because, you know, you're like, oh, I'm gonna talk to Howard bit nervous, you know, because you know, you're like,

oh, I'm gonna talk to Howard Stern. And then he, with the thing, he's so good. Yeah. Because he like makes you so comfortable. And then at the end, he like wraps it up. And then while he wraps it up, and then I think you go, oh, it's over. I feel like that went really well.

And then he asks you like a half an hour more questions. Do you think they're recording those? No, they are. He does this fake out where he's like, you know, we got Seth Meyers here, check him out every night on late night. And it's terrible how we're starting to push. And he's like, hey, I gotta ask you something. Tell me about this.

And I'm like, oh, he did it, got my guard down, but he's a real delight. So he lulls you into a false sense of security and then he gets the good stuff. And just for, you know, just for our guests, if any of our future guests are listening, we're gonna start using this lull move. I was gonna say, oh, I've got, 28 years later is coming out this weekend.

As we record this intro, zombies. And I have, I've got 11 people on my, on my ticket res. Really? Get the big group together, yeah. When is it? When does it come out? Comes out, I think it comes out technically on the Thursday of this week, but I will be

seeing it on June 21st. June 21st. Now, okay, what is your memory of the first two films? Do you feel like you remember everything that happened? I definitely don't remember everything. That's not the kind of brain I have. Well, do you have any interest in going back and watching them, or are you just going to be like rock and roll?

I just don't know if I'm going to have time. Yeah. I would say I probably remember 28 Days Letter more than I remember 28 Weeks Later. Yeah, I think that's true. They're great movies. Yeah, they're really good spookers. And- Yeah. Fast zombies. Yeah, they were the first,

they sort of broke the mold on fast zombies. Yeah. And it makes sense, like this idea that like, without brains or whatever we thought zombies were, I guess zombies like to eat brains. Yeah. But there was something that happened when they became zombie that they were sort of slow

and shuffly and then Danny Boyle was like, nah, they're gonna run like crazy. They wanna get them sweet brains. Yeah. Well, they say like, we have like a governor switch in our brains. If you're working out or if you're doing something, there's something in your brain that says stop.

Yeah. I can't imagine a zombie has that thing that's like, oh, don't exert yourself. I don't think zombies at the end of a night are like, was I too much? I feel like the whole night I was just like. Yeah. I do remember, I don't want to ruin anything about.

Well, I also think it was like a rage disease, because like they let some like crazy monkeys out of a cage that they were like. So it was kind of a rage virus more than anything else. But remember it was just a little bit of blood. If you've got a little bit of blood in you. From the zombies. Our dear friend, Brendan Gleason, who you've maybe never met, and I wouldn't say thinks I'm his dear friend,

but he was in the film, Imbruge, and I love him a great deal. He gets got the way he gets got, I think about a lot. And I don't wanna give anything away, but don't look up if there's a dead zombie hanging from wires above you. Good advice. Good advice. Yeah. I'm trying to think of a movie.

Oh, you know what? I don't... Certainly, I didn't see Lilo and Stitch when it came out, because I was an adult when it came out. But it's a pretty fun animated movie. And there's a live see Lilo and Stitch when it came out, because I was an adult when it came out. But it's a pretty fun animated movie. And there's a live action Lilo and Stitch, and there's a live action, How to Train Your Dragon. And so I'm kind of excited to have a couple of movies like that, that I hear are good and maybe parents will actually like them.

Our dear friend, truly dear friend, Jill Benjamin. Yeah. I was in a movie with her recently and that trailer for Lilo and Stitch came on and I was like, have you ever seen any of these movies? And she's like, no. And she was very offended. And I was like, well, I mean, you have kids. Like, have your kids maybe ever seen these movies?

I just, I don't know if these are really good. I've missed them. I'm, you know, I'm an adult that don't have kids. And she's like, I wouldn't know. And are really good. I've missed them. I'm an adult that don't have kids. And she's like, I wouldn't know. And she was so- Yeah. Yeah. Because she has her kids see movies like The Descent, and she'll bring them probably to 28 years later.

And they're not- By the way, also, if you said to Jill, have you seen the English patient? She'd be like, I don't know. Like, we should let people know that at large, there's a good chance that Jill doesn't know what the heck you're talking about. Yeah, Jill will be joining us on our live podcast

recording in Amsterdam. I'm very excited for everybody to hear Jill for the first time. Yeah, but we're going to have a bunch of our old cohort jumping in with some stories about their parents visiting them in Amsterdam and how things went well or poorly. Can't wait. Yeah, very excited. This is a delightful human being, and I'm very excited for you all to listen to Alexander

Skarsgård. Yeah, he's got a new show, Murderbot. Yeah. And that Murderbot, this is totally unintentional on my part. Or maybe it was something that happens in your brain that sort of sub something. Oh, subconscious. Subconscious, yeah, maybe it was a subconscious tie in.

But Murderbot has a governor switch that goes off. I think Murderbot, I don't know what you'd have to do to earn it, but I'd be pretty psyched if my nickname was Murderbot. You know what I mean? I think it would make people afraid of you. I think it'd be fun if you were like, if all my friends called me Murderbot,

and people were like, how'd you get that nickname? And I would go, I don't remember. I think it'd be a fun nickname to like, and they'd be like, you don't remember why people call you Murderbot? I'm like, no, I'm sure there was something. Yeah, maybe I murdered a robot, you a robot? You a robot?

I sure don't like them when they're around. Oh, by the way, this is for, obviously for video only, but I feel like I've, for the last couple of weeks, I've done a C3PO impression on the show. Just wanted to show it to you real quick. Sure. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah, there you go.

So that's just a brief. Another thing that's video only that I, that it sort of burned me on this, but because we're having Alexander Skarsgård on this pod, a Swede, famously Swedish. Yeah. I thought, hey, I'm going to wear a yellow T-shirt and a blue hoodie.

Smart. Swedish colors. Smart. And he's going to be like, hey. Yeah, my dude. It does not get mentioned. And then I get way too hot and I gotta take my sweatshirt off. Oh, yeah.

So you really struck out. Yeah. Now, all right, I have a question. We're gonna be in Amsterdam in a couple weeks. Yeah. Let's say someone's like, hey, you know, you're back for the Boom Chicago anniversary. Can I interview you for a local paper? Say, the folks-crant.

Oh, yeah. Or the Hans-crant? Yeah, yeah. So you sit down. The Handelsblad. Algemeen Dagblad. So you, NRC Handelsblad, so you sit down with this reporter. They're wearing blue jeans, white t-shirt, red scarf. Are you immediately like, hey, that's my flag? My point is, what did you fucking think? I thought I was showing some Swedish respect.

And you thought he'd like go like, hey man, by the way, like I think every Swedes nightmares, you see somebody wearing blue and yellow and you're like, hey, I know what you're doing. And then that person's like, what? Like if he like assumed you were dressing up like his black. It was, I just, I'm letting the video watchers among you, which aren't very many for the record.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we are on video. You can go over to YouTube. I put these songs on YouTube. Yeah. Maybe like 300 people watch them. Really? Wait, you put just the songs?

The songs have to live alone. Oh, separate, right, right, right. Yeah, and people aren't clicking over and- Do you think it's a bad sign that your co-host of the show is like, what do you do? No, I knew you didn't know. Yeah, well, you know what? Sounds pretty cool. Let's get it up to 301, baby.

Yeah. Well, Pashi, thanks for wearing the flag of surrender. Josh is wearing a white t-shirt. All right, listen up. Family trips with the Mice Brothers. Family trips with the Midas Brothers, here we go. Yeah. Yes.

Hey. Hey, guys. There he is. iPad 108 is your name on your thing. Have you gone through 108 iPads? Yeah, I smash one a week basically. That is a big sticking point in my marriage because I'm on like, my AirPods are like AirPod 11.

It drives my wife crazy that I'm on my 11th pair of AirPods. I just heard, I just listened to you, your interview on Talk Easy the other day, Seth, and you revealed that you smash a lot of things. I do. I kind of am a smasher. I'm an old school smasher.

I'm glad that was your takeaway, by the way. You're not even impressed by my 107 smash iPad. No, I'm like, dude. Come on. How are you, friend? I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. It's great to see you.

Yeah, you too. It's been a couple years. Yeah. You look like you're on the set of a film noir. Well, my life is a film noir. I'm actually back home after a couple of weeks or two months of traveling, basically. So I just got back home a few days ago. And when you say home, do you mean Los Angeles?

I mean, Stockholm. That's what, okay. That was kind of helpful just based on the time we're doing this. All right. I'm way happier you're in Stockholm. I'm so sorry about the timing of this. Are you guys- No, no.

I'm on dream for me. I'm California, but it's fine. You're not the earliest we've ever done. And sometimes we do it for New Yorkers. How far away do you live from where you grew up right now? I live about three blocks, four blocks from the apartment in which I grew up. And my two brothers and their families

now reside in that apartment. So we still have it. We've had that apartment with the family since 1980. Wow. Did you have a sense when you were growing up that you would be living this close? Did you love it that much or was this a path that you're surprised by?

No, I was very eager to get out of there, not only the apartment, but like Stockholm, Sweden. I was adamant about leaving. So I left for, well, first the military when I was 18. And then when I was 20, I moved to Leeds and then New York and then LA and then back to New York. I was gone for over 20 years. And for most of those two decades,

I loved going back to visit Stockholm, but I didn't, no, I never really anticipated moving back until a few years ago. It's one of the most stunning cities I've ever been in. I mean, I can understand when you live there, it maybe doesn't feel that way, but I've been lucky enough to go a few times, I am very taken aback by the beauty of Stockholm I think I needed two decades away to appreciate that you know growing up there. I didn't really I didn't really see the beauty of it or

but but Yeah, like my like I said to my brothers on They divided my childhood apartment into our childhood apartment into two apartments. So Gus, his wife and two kids live in one part of the apartment and Sam, his wife and two kids live in the other part. And my dad and his wife and my two brothers live a block away.

My sister lives a block away. So everyone is kind of, I'm the furthest away. But again, when I left, I was the only one who moved to the States. I was the only, everyone that was like stayed in Stockholm. My dad works in abroad a lot, obviously, but he always had Stockholm as a base. So I was the only one away.

I like that you're the black sheep because you live four blocks away. Yeah. The outcast. So you were the oldest of your siblings and you have, it seems like a great many. Yeah, yeah. Do you have, is it all, do you have only one sister? Is it all boys and one sister? I don't know. I think we're about half a dozen boys. No, we're more than that. We're seven boys and one girl.

Wow, wow. Yeah. Yes. How do you think she perceives her upbringing based on how that broke down statistically? Well, I do know that she was, so she's number five in the order. And I know when my mom was pregnant with number six She was very little

but even as a two three year old she was Really concerned that it would be a girl because she loved being the only girl so I was like not excited about the prospect of Sharing that attention with another girl, but then when she found out that it was she's gonna be baby brother. She was very pleased so she's Then when she found out that she was going to have a baby brother, she was very pleased. So she's quite happy about being the only girl. All right, good. I'm glad she, in the end, got what she wanted.

Yeah. She had a tendency to always get what she wanted when she was a kid. Were you guys, I would imagine, a fairly chaotic home growing up with that many kids running around? Yeah. It was also a very large extended family. My mother's brother, who's also my dad's best friend, lived with his family in the apartment above us in the same apartment building. And then my grandma and grandpa lived across the street in another apartment building.

And our apartment was kind of the epic in another apartment building. And our apartment was kind of the epicenter of our universe. So everyone kind of gathered most nights of the week in our apartment and it was a very kind of lively bohemian household. Most of my uncles and aunts are in the arts, artists or musicians, composers, painters. So it was very, a lot of very weird, eccentric people. Lovely, but it was mayhem at home, yeah. Did you know it was eccentric compared to your other friends or were you an artist?

Oh yeah, yeah. No, I was, I hated it. I was devastated. You couldn't wait to get to your military service. I couldn't wait. Exactly. I, no, I mean, not when I was little, it didn't really bother me. I really loved having my cousins upstairs and like being able to run, you know, it didn't really bother me. I really loved having my cousins upstairs and like

being able to run. You know, it was fun. Having a big family was fun when when I was a kid when I was entering my teenage years, it got. I wanted to be normal. I wanted to be from a normal family. I wanted my parents to have two and a half kids, you know, and not eight. And I wanted specifically my dad, who's the most bohemian out of my parents, but I just wanted him to have like a normal job at an office in a cubicle and wear a gray suit and drive a gray Saab. And I, because I remember like specifically that I, and I want to mention that like the connotations of driving a Saab in Sweden is very different from in the States.

Yeah. I know in the States is kind of like a very literal. A little bougie, yeah. A little bougie, yeah. In Sweden, Saab and Volvo, most people like, especially when I was a kid, like eight out of 10 cars were either a Saab or a Volvo. It was very much like every person. Like a Ford Taurus, Honda Civic.

Yeah, Ford Taurus. It was just like no one would react. It was very like nondiscrete, nothing special about it. What did he drive? And that was my dream. Well, for many years we didn't have a car at all. And then we had a Fiat Uno No, sorry Fiat Panda

Yeah That's a little that's a kind of little by the way Based on what my memory of a Fiat Panda is that is not a very functional car for a family of 25 Google image that bad boy. A Fiat Panda from the mid 80s. It was, it's kind of retro cool today, I guess, but when you're 13 and you drive around to that, it looks like a miniature truck.

Yeah. It's a very, it almost looks like East European, like a Trabant or something from the 80s. It's very boxy. And yeah, it definitely doesn't look like a Saab. I feel like when an Italian car company names it after an Asian bear, that's just their way of saying like, we haven't put a lot of thought into this. Did you, was your dad well known in Sweden? I mean, I think they, you know, we kind of got to know maybe if my timeline's right, like maybe late nineties, he was famous here, but like, what about your upbringing?

Sorry, I digress here, but I, when you said like Italian carmaker naming it after an Asian animal, there was also in the eighties or early 90s, Hyundai. They made a model called Hyundai Fitta, F-I-T-T-A. And F-I-T-T-A in Swedish means vagina. And I guess the Swedish market is very is very small so no one bothered checking Sure. Yeah, and it's actually not It's fit. This is not it's actually more

Can I curse on the show or please? Yeah, sure. Yeah, it's it's basically Yep, okay So it's slang It's not Hyundai vagina, it's Hyundai c***. It didn't sell very well in Sweden. I imagine there must have been some rebellious youths who really wanted to get their hands on it. They never have disposable income to get a car without the rebellious.

I wanna believe that even today at Hyundai, in like the marketing department, somebody gives a speech about the Fitta. The Fitta. Like triple check. Triple check. We don't want another incident. Yeah.

A debacle. Yeah. Again, if you make this mistake, you're the Fitta. That's what they say. Yeah, you're the fitter. That's what they say Don't be the fitter don't be the dumb fitter Sorry you were saying something about no, but I also want to applaud I want to applaud the digression that was a worthwhile digression So thank you. Thank you much. Thank you for your instincts of much appreciate. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support for family trips comes from Airbnb. Hey Poshy. Hey Sufi. There are a lot of holidays. Name three since you're so confident. Well, Flag Day, Arbor Day,

New Year's Eve. Which one of those do you think is a good one to go hang out with friends for? I would do New Year's Eve unless your friends are trees, in which case Arbor Day. Okay, good call. Yep. I love New Year's Eve. I used to always sort of just chase parties for New Year's Eve. I always wanted to find like the hottest thing that was going on. You were a party chaser. You were like we used to say you were like those people in Twisters but for parties. Yeah that was me and sometimes there would be two parties happening at the same time, like in the most recent Twisters movie. And you sort of feel pulled between them. But, you know, maybe 10 years ago, 15 years ago, me and my friends figured out a better thing to do is to get an Airbnb, go outside the city, you know, go somewhere else, go to a cool little town, and then just be with each other.

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growing up? No, he was when I was up until I was like When I was up until I was like a teenager, he was primarily a stage actor in Stockholm. He was a well known stage actor. He worked at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm with Ingmar Bergman. He worked with the big gorillas on the big stage. But again, it was in Sweden, so it's quite a limited reach. And it didn't really affect me because my 12-year-old friends didn't go to the National Royal Dramatic Theater

to watch a Bergman play. So none of my friends really knew who he was, which I really loved. But then when I was in my late teens, he did something called, he played a character named Hamilton, not the musical Hamilton, but it's the Swedish equivalent of 007. It's like an agent. Yeah, yeah. So it's like an action, a very famous action spy basically.

And that then that was definitely something more action driven. So that was definitely something people my age would watch. And that then it got a little uncomfortable with that because then people in my school would like, hey, you're a dad. Like that got a little bit uncomfortable. But he actually didn't work. He didn't start working. We spent a summer in Texas when I was eight. Dad did a movie called Noon Wine with Fred Ward. And that was after that, he didn't, after that, he didn't work in the States for another like almost 10 years.

So he was primarily in Sweden. And then occasionally movies. Were you the kind of family that would go on vacations when he wasn't working? And if so, I know there's that real sort of island culture in Sweden. Were you one of those families? Yes. So there's an archipelago outside of Stockholm with thousands of small islands, but then further south in Sweden, there are two big islands, one called Gotland and one called

Öland. And we have a family home on Öland, which going back like 100 years, so five generations of SCARS guards. Actually, our surname is from that island, from Skare, which was an old Viking back in the day. So we would go down there and spend the whole summer on Öland basically. And then occasionally, we would Eurorail, take the train down to Italy a couple of times when I was a kid as well. How long is that trip to get down to Italy? We would do it over like, it was like the journey was part of the adventure.

So we would like sleep on the train, you know, take a night train to Hamburg and then have a day there and then work our way like inter-rail style. It's all, all these cities are connected. So you like, we would work our way down maybe three, four days down to Italy and then back up. How long would you stay in Italy? Or would you just tap it and then turn around? No, no, we, probably a week.

But it was kind of when I was, at the time it wasn't 47 of us, it was mom, dad, and myself, and Gus and Sam, my two brothers. So we were lean and mean, it was only five of us. Yeah, yeah. So it was actually like, yeah. We could fit into one compartment, you know?

And would you be going to the mountains or would you be more on the coast? Travel over the Alps, which is a beautiful training ride. Highly recommend it to your listeners. And back then, I haven't done it in 30 years, but I remember back then they had a really nice like dining cards, you could sit and eat a nice lunch overlooking the Alps and as you were like driving through the mountains, it was stunning. So it was like a combination of like a little bit of adventure, which is super fun for

us kids, and then a few days on the beach in Italy, which was also quite nice. And so we did that a bunch of times. Do you, I picture when you're traveling with a larger group, with the family sort of is busting at the seams, you're sort of a bohemian theater family. Were you, do you feel like you were well behaved as a group? I mean, it was definitely like herding cats, because there's a lot of us taking off in different directions. So I think like we were having a blast,

but in hindsight, it must've been a nightmare for mom and dad. You know, you're at the train station in Berlin and you got 19 kids running around in different directions, you know. Again, we've established that I smash things, so I'm not judging, but were your parents temperamental on vacations

or did they keep their cool? I think it was very stressful for my mother because dad had a more chill attitude towards it all. And it was like, you know, we'll make it. We got four minutes of the train to Mars. We'll be fine. Yeah, that type. And she's like, we don't know where our children are.

Where are our kids? And he's like, it's fine. Did you have to become a parent figure because you were the oldest to some of your younger siblings? I mean, I wanna say yes, cause it would make me seem like a better person than I actually am.

Yeah. But probably not. I don't think it helped out very much. Okay. No. Do you, based on Proximity Now, do you guys go on, do you go on adult vacations with your family and your nieces and nephews?

We, yeah, we do. We celebrate, so my parents are divorced but are still very tight and my dad and Megan's wife live a block away from my mom and actually got a country house on one of the islands in the archipelago outside of Stockholm, a block like 100 yards away from my mom's country house. So it's beautiful. It is like a big extended family. And again, they, after 35 years of marriage, decided that they were better as best friends than partners. So we do with the extended family now with kids and grandkids go on trips. We went to Sri Lanka a few years ago, Bali a couple years before that, where we rent

a big house. Because I think there's just between the siblings and the grandkids now and mom and dad and Megan, there's, I think we're 25 or 26 now. So it's a platoon of people traveling. I'm always excited when I meet someone who's closer with their family than my wife is with hers. Are they tight? Yeah, they're really tight.

We like built a house next to their house. So, and I kind of knew when I met her, like that would be the deal. You know, she never hid from me, like how codependent it was, which I appreciate. Oh, no, and we're building a small cabin in the woods on one of the, so this is not Ireland. Ireland is a little geography lesson here

for curious Americans. So, Ireland is like one of the two big islands down in southern Sweden. But mom lives permanently in the Stockholm archipelago. Again, there's like 20,000 plus small islands outside of Stockholm. And she lives out there permanently now. Dad and Megan have a house out there like a weekend home. And this is like you can drive to some of the islands. Some of the islands are the size of a table and some are big, we can drive on them.

And we're on an island that you can drive to. And we're having a small cabin built in the woods on the same island. So like a three minute walk from mom and dad's place. So it's gotta be close together. So we often do holidays, like Christmas, Thanksgiving together out there on the island. And then every other every three years maybe we'll go somewhere like Sri Lanka or Bali

or South Africa a few years ago. But it's lovely but it's obviously like a logistical nightmare with 25 people and toddlers and teenagers and finding stuff to do for everyone. And we often just rent a house together. And then like, as long as there's like a beach and cocktails, everyone's pretty happy or a pool and cocktails, everyone's happy. How do you figure out bedrooms in a situation like that?

Do you flex and say like, well, I mean, I'm used to a certain level of comfort at this point in my life. I've had some success. I need one of the nicer bedrooms. But with 25, I imagine you get what you get. I try to be very magnanimous. And then I feel so good about myself when I go like,

you know what, no, you should take the master bedroom. I'm fine back here. I'll take this little room facing the street. It's all right. And then I feel disgustingly good about myself. I'm like, I'm such a good person. Well, that's good. Yeah.

So I just want to help me picture 20,000 islands. How many of them can you drive to and how many, like do people have to take boats to some of them if they have houses on them or is it all, is everything? Let me tell you something. Seth doesn't know how islands work. Yeah, yeah. No, so.

So. Surrounded by water, right? Okay. How many can you drive to? So a couple of them have bridges. a couple of them have car ferries. Cool, cool, I heard about those. So our island is called Ustra and you drive about an hour north of Stockholm or central Stockholm where we're based. And then it's a five minute car ferry. And then the island is the size of Manhattan so but mostly you know

pine trees gotcha but it's a big island with with you know grocery stores and you can you know and you know on villages and stuff but and some again some of the islands especially further out in the archipelago um you have to take a private boat to get to. But there's also great boat service like ferries, smaller ferries from central Stockholm. You can do a day trip out to the islands. And again, for anyone visiting Stockholm, that is, if you're there for more than a few hours, you should definitely get on one of the Vaxholm, Vaxholm is one of the islands out there. And just go out and jump on a boat, you sit and have a nice lunch,

and then cruise through the islands, because it's pretty stunning out there. That's amazing. I think the US equivalent would probably be up in Maine, in terms of the topography and what it looks like out there. Lots of pine trees and islands. Yeah, it's quite a special place. When you would go to sort of the family house on the island. Say the name of the island, Posh.

He keeps saying them, so repeat it. Well, I was gonna ask if Skaru, was he a good guy? Oh, nice job. Was Skaru a good guy, that Viking that you were named after? Is there a lot of history on him? So Skarsgård, Skare means, gård means farm. So Skare is farm, that's our last name.

And all I know is that's our last name. And all I know is that he was exceptionally handsome. Yeah. And in a very, very benevolent king. Oh, that's not what you always expect to hear about a Viking. No, no, but that's why- And also like kind of the farming Viking. Right.

He was like, I'd love to just get back to the garden. Yeah, that's why he didn't go down to the history books as like, you know, some of the most famous vikings because he wasn't out raping and pillaging. Yeah, more of a pillager than a pillager. Oh, nice job. Yeah. Yeah.

He had a bottle episode on vikings that everybody said was the worst one. Yeah, it was just him sitting around like asking everyone for consensus. I'm like, what do you guys wanna do? Guys, we need to treat women better with respect. Also, this is their stuff. Like, I don't think you can just take it.

So when you would go out to this house on the island, would you spend your whole summers there or would you? No, pretty much. And then what would you do out there? Like if as a kid, how would you entertain yourself? Would you all be together with like a group of your siblings or would you go off on your own and just run through the pine forests or swimming?

Like what are activities that keep you busy? Well, when I was a kid, we didn't have the place in the Stockholm Archipelago. We only had airline. We got the place in the Stockholm Archipelago. We only had Erland. We got the place in the archipelago when I was 19. So I don't really have... Up until then, we would always...

Erland is about a five-hour drive from Stockholm. So that was a place where we would pack up our Fiat Panda and then drive down and you know after you know and then spend two months down there but we wouldn't go down and take like the size of the Panda it would take like five trips right somebody go then come back pick up another two kids. No they would cram it into it and both mom and dad were like chain smokers so they would sit up front and just like smoke on small, with three kids in the backseat and 45 bags and two big dogs.

But then we would set camp and be down there for two months. But that was part of the reason they got the place in the Stockholm Market Pelican because you can actually go out there. It's an hour away from central Stockholm. You can go out there on a weekend. But yeah, what do can go out there on a weekend or, you know, so... But yeah, what do you do out there? It's... You hang out. You go swimming or kayaking

or you have a little boat. Were your brothers a good hang? Were they a part of your, like, did you guys do a lot of stuff together? Yeah, and... So, again, growing up in Storaråd, this village on Erland, Storaråd is where my parents met. So like I mentioned earlier, like in the apartment above our apartment, mom's older brother,

Johan, lived and still lives. And dad and Johan became best friends because they were kids and our grandparents had houses in the same village on Erland. So that's how they met and were like summer buddies. And then mom was five years younger. And then classic case of like suddenly one summer and she was always like annoying little kid. And then suddenly one summer dad showed up and his best friend's annoying little kid was suddenly like 18 and very pretty. And that's how that story started. Right. I think one of the takeaways of this pod is if you're waiting for an apartment in Stockholm to open up, keep

waiting. Since everybody in your story is like, still lives. Still lives in the place. I mean, sometimes they move out, but then they split it in two and give it to their children. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. But we have, again, because both on my mom's side and my dad's side, strong roots in this village from going five generations back, that means there's like 200 cousins, you know, and aunts and

uncles and everyone is there. Most people live in Stockholm, but go down for the summer. So it was always a good hang. No matter what age you were, like you'd have tons of relatives and fun people to hang out with down there. I know this isn't a family trip, but it is very unique that we're talking to somebody who has been to the South Pole.

And so if you don't mind, I'd love to dig into that journey of yours. So this was a charitable trip that you took? It was, yes. With this British charity called Walking with the Wounded. Yeah, so we skied to the South Pole with 21 soldiers. And now, so when you, what's the first thing you do? Like, where do you fly to to begin your trip to the South Pole? So we flew down to, well I was, we flew down to Cape Town and then took a cargo

plane from Cape Town to this Russian base on the coast of Antarctica. And then we trained there for a week. Has some amazing Indian food. Oh yeah, they say that's the place to get it. If you want some great dal, go down to Antarctica. Russian, you gotta go to the Russian base in Antarctica. It was in, yeah, because we were out training. That's you gotta go to the Russian base in Antarctica. It was an, yeah, cause we were out training.

That's like the Fiat Panda, I would say. Yeah. That's a Fiat Panda food. But we stumbled upon an Indian research station cause we had a week of training on the coast and we're out one day and yeah, just stumbled upon this Indian research station and they were very generous and hospitable and invited us in for a

great Indian lunch and in classic like Bollywood music, video, movie was playing in the background and fully decked out research station. And then after that, a week later, we flew up to the plateau on the 97th, 87th degree. And then we skied for about three weeks on the ice to the South Pole. Wow. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from a visit to Baltimore. Pashi.

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And most Swedes are pretty good skiers. Like most Swedes go up like during the winter break or spring break up to Norden, Sweden or down to the Alps to ski. winter break or spring break up to Norden Sweden or down to the Alps to ski. Again, I come from a very bohemian family of not very sporty people. So we never did that as a kid. And then I kind of never really, I snow, it was snowboarding a little bit when I lived in California and in mammoth.

Um, but I've never skied in Sweden. Um, I like that they were, they was a week of training. It was actually supposed to be an hour until they saw you on skis and they're like, I don't think we can leave yet. I think we got to do like a much, we have to give Alexander a full seven days tutorials here. And we got to find a place to get some good food

because we're gonna be here for a whole night. They're like, did we just assume he could do it? Yeah, we just assumed he could do it. But that's kind of how I ended up on the trip. It was, I'd been to Greenland the year prior to that. And then I was in New York. I was having dinner with some friends and a friend of a friend is an explorer

and was gonna be the main explorer of this mission, this trip to Antarctica, the South Pole. And he just asked like, hey, are you, would you want to come this is, you know, next month? And I was shooting True Blood in LA at the time and we were on hiatus. So I had a bit of a break and I was like, well, you know, it's not every day you get invited down to the South Pole. So I just a bit of a break and I was like, well, you know, it's not every day you get invited down to the South Pole. So I just said yes. And obviously didn't tell him that I couldn't ski.

But then but I think what saved me was. It's really flat, like once you get up to the plateau, it's completely flat. So you're basically and you're pulling these like heavy sleds behind you with all the gear and stuff. So you're basically walking very, very slowly on it's almost like snow boots, like you know, you're not really skiing. So you don't really have to have much technique. I like basically what I heard is like, good The good news is you didn't have to know how to ski because it was terrible. Because there's no skiing involved basically. But like you got it.

If you want three weeks of just slowly walking in boots while you drag a heavy load. That was it. How many like how many hours a day were you moving? We probably, maybe nine, nine or 10. Wow. And then where do you sleep? Are there camps already set up or do you have to get somewhere? We brought tents with us.

And so we pulled all our gear and food and everything. pulled all our gear and food and everything. But it was interesting because it's like, once you're up there, there's no, it's not like nature programs from Antarctica where you see the whales and the cute penguins and all that. They're obviously on the coast. Like once you're up on the plateau, there's 10,000 feet of ice. So there's no life. There's no vegetation. And there's also no sense of... I've been on a couple of longer hikes and you always feel a sense of progress or forward momentum. You wake up in the morning and you look at the next peak and you're like, all right, by sundown, we're going to reach that peak. And you feel like you're making some progress.

But it's kind of weird when you're down in Antarctica because it's almost constantly... Again, we were there the winter months, which is their summer. So it's like daylight 24- and on almost always high pressure. So it's like sunshine and almost no clouds, no precipitation. And you're it all looks the same like you set out in the morning and then you slowly walk for 10 hours. And then you're like, all right, this is like, is this where we started 10 hours ago? Because it was exactly the same. Also, I would imagine there's nothing, not only just day to day, but at the end, did

somebody just say, like, yep, this is it. We're here. No, because, and that was, so for two and a half weeks, we saw nothing, like no humans, no animals, no vegetation, absolutely nothing. I saw the ass of the guy in front of me for two and a half weeks. Basically, I was skiing. Well, you got to switch the asses. You got to switch the asses.

So I saw a lot of asses. A lot of great, great asses. But once you start to get close to the actual South Pole, it's weird because it's like a massive edifice. It's like a big research station. So you kind of have this like romantic notion of like planting the flag like Amundsen or Scott or like, you know, like we made it. But then the journey there is a very like isolated experience. But once you get there, there's like a big research station. So you walk in and there's like a yoga studio and a cantina and like, you know, a little greenhouse and like a basketball court and like 200 people working.

So it's like, yeah, still a really cool experience to be like the southern most humans on the planet. Yeah, yeah. And then we had a couple of Icelandic dudes with us and they had a portable sauna. So we set up the sauna on the South Pole and had a good steam and drank some Icelandic aqua wheat and celebrated it. And that was a delightful day. Apologies for my ignorance. Do you then have to walk back or at that point, do they let you like, whatever the Uber equivalent is? Oh, yeah. Well, if you're badass, then you've got to

make it, you turn around, then you're bad ass, then you got to make it, you turn around, then you ski back. But yeah, we Ubered with the turbo surcharge. Yeah, yeah. Wait times are longer than usual. Do they have like a big, what kind of vehicle are you sort of getting out of there on? We, on a really big old DC-3 prop plane.

Oh, so you just fly out of the South Pole? Yeah, they have a couple of rugged, tough Canadian pilots flying back and forth from the station to the coast. But they only do that seven or eight months out of the year. The summer months when it's completely dark, there's no, like they shut down, you can't fly in and out. So those scientists and people working at the station

are completely isolated those months. It's like pitch black, negative 50 and no way out. So great set for like a horror movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was that last true detective, I feel like that was in that world. And I was like, oh yeah, it's a good place.

It's a good place for spooky stuff. It works. Did you, have you traveled much? You have a three-year-old? Yes. For work, have they traveled and are they a good traveler? Yeah, I did a show in Toronto last year, and he came out a bunch of times. So like we would schedule it in a way where I would have some breaks so I could go home

because it was a long shoot. It was six months. Is this Murderbot? Is that where you shot that? Yeah, we shot Murderbot in Toronto. And it wasn't even two when we was one and a half when we started and turned two out there. So I we just got had to figure out a way because obviously I didn't want to be away from him for five, six months. So I had a couple of breaks and

then he came out and spent about two months out there. That's great. With me out there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. He didn't like the robot, but he had a good time with it. Yeah, I could see that. As robots shows go, I would say

it's the least suited for kids. Well, and then, cause I also have like- He's pretty friendly, I will say. He is friendly, as murder bots go. He's friendly, but he came to set to visit, and my character has these gun ports in his arms, or its arms. And my son did not like that. He was just, he couldn't say much at the time, he was about to turn two, so he didn't speak much but he did say bort bort which means away in Swedish. He was just away away. He's a little pacifist. What can I say?

Yeah that's great. Again. Yeah well he's a scars guard. He's a scar guard. He's affirming Viking. Did you when you were when you joined the military did you travel? Does the Swedish military stay in one place? Did you like go you were, when you joined the military, did you travel? Or does the Swedish military stay in one place? Did you like go all over Sweden? I was stationed in the archipelago actually outside of Stockholm. So we were primarily out there.

We did a little winter training a bit further up north, but mostly on the islands. How long was your military commitment? A year and a half. Gotcha. And I'm gonna assume it was an act of rebellion and how did your parents respond when you gave them the news? I think everybody does.

Isn't it compulsory? No, it used to be, but I was on the cusp of like, it was technically still compulsory, but you could easily get out of it. This was like late 90s, early 2000s, end of the Cold War, everyone was like, it'll be peace forever. Russia is our best friend. It was a fun run.

We did all feel that way in the late 90s. We had a good run, didn't we? Yeah. So they were dismantling military stations all around Sweden. And so I think I joined probably as an act of rebellion maybe against my hippie, bohemian, pacifist family. And the reaction I got was a shrug.

Yeah. Bohemians are good at that. Nobody can shrug like them. He tried to pick a fight, you know, like, what do you say? Not dad. And he's like, oh, that's great. If you want to do that, go do that. That's wonderful. So yeah, it was. And no, but I actually I joined just because I was 19. I didn't want

to be an actor. I didn't really know what I wanted to study. Yeah, and I classic like, recruiter story. Like I was walking through a park in Stockholm, and they handed me this pamphlet and it looked badass like you got to like you know yeah you know swim and dive and jump off ships and run around on islands and as a small unit and it was like counter terrorism sabotage stuff and I was like hey this sounds great um so I think it was a little bit of just like I was growing up in Södermalm in South Stockholm, South, like in the central park of this part of the city, very like concrete jungle.

I think I wanted a bit of an adventure for myself and just like do something different from what I was used to and probably also a bit of rebelling against, subconsciously rebelling against my dad and my extended Bohemian family. Such a good burn to not see it as an act of rebellion. Like as a parent, that's the best thing you can do. Oh, yeah. Well, good to know. Thanks for the update.

Yeah. I, this will sound like a brag until I finish this story, All right, well, good to know. Thanks for the update. This will sound like a brag until I finish this story, but I ran the first half of the Stockholm Marathon before. Did you? Yeah, I had over trained. It's the best half. It's the best half. Oh my God, everybody says after the first half, it's kind of redundant.

You might as well quit. The second half is the archipelago. So that's messy. Yeah, exactly. I had overtrained and had like IT band issues. So I had a bad feeling that I wouldn't be able to, you know, that I was gonna have an issue. But I ran the first half and it is gorgeous.

And it was like, my dream is sort of a rainy day. And it was like a perfect, like running in the rain. I loved it. It was like a, it was a gray wet day in Stockholm, having the time of my life. Well, how many years ago was this? 2015, I think. Okay.

And, and, and it was also, I liked the anonymity of like running in a place where, you know, nobody would know who I was. And then at like mile 14, my knee buckled and I had to like literally lean against what I'm realizing now was a sob. And so like leaning against a sob and like so much pain.

And like a Swedish kid ran by, he was like, hi, it's Sath Meyers. Sorry, I know he didn't sound like that, but that's my memory. But like immediately. Oh, Sath Meyers? Hello. Oh ho.

Step away from my fear ponder. Yeah. I will give you a ride. Yeah, but it was still a special time. You were there, right, Posh? Did you come on that one? Not for that one, but Seth did run the Helsinki Marathon years earlier.

And as part of that, we sort of went to a bunch of European cities and we went to Stockholm. That's the first time I went to Stockholm. The first half of the Helsinki Marathon. No, full one. I was doing fulls. I was doing fulls. It's great. I think it's an accomplishment to do a half marathon

unless you were planning on doing a full, in which case it's not as cool. 100%. I mean, a 5K is an accomplishment. 5K is an accomplishment. We had an interesting thing. Tell us if this would fit with how you feel as though your country perceives the rest of Scandinavia. We started in Copenhagen and we were talking to Danish people and they're like, where are you going next? And we were like, we're going to Stockholm.

And they're like, ugh, why are you going to Sweden? Real negative about their neighbor. And then when we were in Stockholm, we were like, where are they going to go next? We're like, we're going to Helsinki. And they were like, ugh, why are you going to like, nobody, everybody thought they were making a mistake leaving. Oh, really? Yeah. There was not a lot of love for their neighbors. I don't know I

Quite enjoy both hells again in Copenhagen. We love them all. Yeah, I think I know that Swedes Sweden Sweden is a small country a small population, but Comparatively to the other Scandinavian countries or Nordic countries, it's the largest country with the largest population. And Stockholm is the biggest city in Scandinavia. So I know that a lot of other like well Danes and Norwegians and Finns and think Swedes are a bit cocky and yeah like we're better than they are and that we're like oh oh, cute little Copenhagen, cute little Helsinki. Well, we're from Stockholm, like as if that's like a massive cosmopolitan city.

So I think Swedes can be a little obnoxious and annoying. It's probably like how Philly and Boston feel about New York. Probably. Yeah, probably. Where they're closer than they want to admit. The last time I was in Stockholm, we were in a taxi going to a museum and our taxi driver's like, why are you going there? And I was like, I don't know, we're tourists.

And he was like, okay. He's like, what else are you doing? And I was like, well, we're gonna go to this museum and we're gonna go to this park. He's like, why are you gonna do those things? I was like, what am I supposed to do? He should be a tour guide. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Why? I don't know? He should be a tour guide. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, maybe it is a Scandinavian thing because my wife and I were hiking in Norway years ago and we sort of got to one of these huts in the mountain and the mountains and the people were like, why are you here? You should be further north.

And I'm like, I am exactly where you are. Like, why are you here? Like, I'm doing exactly what you are doing. Well, that's why, you know, Scandinavians are inherently like depressed and very gloomy and everything is just kind of like, there's like a nice level of melancholy. But they're also like, you also rank so high

on those happiest countries. I think that's the key. Well, because yeah, we set our expectations really, really low. Yes, yes. Low expectations, that's the key. You'll never be disappointed. Yeah, real quick, on that trip that where Seth ran

the Helsinki Marathon and we were in Stockholm, we stayed at a hotel that had the best breakfast we have ever experienced. I think about it all the time. We think about it all the best breakfast we have ever experienced. We think about it all the time. It was a buffet. It was like the 101 item buffet and it went until like one in the afternoon. You didn't have to wake up from like eight to 10

to get this breakfast. And we went down every morning and we ate so many meatballs every morning for breakfast. Oh, for breakfast? Yeah, well, it was the breakfast. We were excited to be in Sweden. It was the most breakfast meatballs I ever ate. The previous record had been zero.

Yeah, because that's more of a brunch thing. Normally on a breakfast spread in Sweden, you don't find meatballs, but a big buffet style complimentary breakfast is a thing in Sweden. When you check into hotels in Sweden, you kind of expect that. So that's why sweets are a bit disappointed

when they go to the States and breakfast is first not included. And it's also like a la carte. So you have to order, like, no, you want the spread. You want to, you know. I think that's, yeah, I la carte, so you have to order, like, no, you want this bread, you want to, you know. I think that's, yeah, I think that's a very special thing about a nice European hotel is like, we appreciate, like, look, you're paying a lot of money to be here. The very least we could do is some like bread, some cheese.

Some meatballs. Some meatballs in a perfect world. It is so lovely to see you as always. Thank you for your time. I also want to just shout out, I know we've talked about it before, but you once traveled to Wales to shoot an episode of documentary now, Soldiers of Illusion, which is one of

favorite things I've ever worked on and you were so kind to do it, you're so wonderful in it and I highly recommend it. That was one of my favorite experiences on a set. Honestly, we had so much fun. It was, I loved every second of it. So no, thank you guys. And John Mulaney who wrote it, it was just so funny. And that was, it was, I loved it.

So thank you guys and have fun in Amsterdam next week. Yes, yeah. My buddy Jack. You're gonna see your friend Jack McBrary. We're very excited. He's coming out here actually. You're going to see your friend Jack McBrary. We're very excited. He's coming out here actually. You know, he's my godfather.

Yeah. Great. He's going to Vogue a visit. Wonderful. Yeah. He's going to come here. I bet he's never been there. He's never been to Amsterdam.

So finally, it took a lot of friends to get Jack to go to Europe. I know. I actually went to Greenland with him. That's for our next episode of your show. But yeah, Jack and I went to Greenland. him. That's for our next episode of your show. But yeah, Jack and I went to Greenland. Well, we want it, you know what? Maybe we'll have Jack and you on together to talk about your adventures to Greenland.

Yeah, call me from Amsterdam. I'll be around. Okay, good. Before you go, we have a speed round of questions that Josh is gonna kick off. Okay, here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous,

or educational? Adventurous. What is your favorite means of transportation? Train. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family, what family would you like to take a vacation with? The Myers Brothers.

Thank you. Good call. We don't get that answer enough. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? My son. Nice. And you are, Stockholm is your hometown. You were born in Stockholm, yeah?

Or Stockholm's gotta be your hometown. Would you recommend Stockholm as a vacation destination? Yes, if you include the archipelago, then for sure. All right, I've been twice and I still haven't made the archipelago, but I love it, I love it. That and the first part of the Stockholm Marathon, highly recommend.

Highly recommend, because it does, I will say, and I don't wanna burn your city, but this is when you realize they're a little bit smaller than New York. It does kind of double back. I really do think I would have seen. It does, it really does. I would have seen. It does, it really does. I would have seen the same stuff.

Yeah. And then Seth has our final questions. Have you been to the Grand Canyon? I have. And was it worth it? It was too impressive. It looked fake. Okay.

I mean, the answer, short answer is 100% worth it. If, yeah, go with it. I don't know, you kind of hesitated and so I think it's a pass for me, but. No, but I couldn't comprehend the scale of it. I think that's what it was. See, who wants a trip? They can't comprehend it.

I want to go somewhere where. Yeah. I don't want to feel like my brain's too small. Yeah, the second half of the Stockholm Marathon was going to blow Seth's mind, so he pulled back. You know what I wanna see? The world's biggest ball of yarn, got it. Yeah.

What a pleasure, Alexander. It's always so nice to see you. Yeah, you too, guys. We're jealous that you get to see Jack after we get to see Jack, but have fun with him. Enjoy my leftovers. Okay, will do. Bye, buddy.

All right, thanks, guys. Thanks, will do. Bye buddy. Alright, thanks guys. See ya. Ciao. The stars, stars live on a block that is in Stockholm After decades away, Alexander came home Traveled the world right back to where he's from Everyone else was so content to stay Now he lives just four blocks away

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