The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Alexander Skarsgård - Creating a Viking Epic

Episode Date: May 24, 2022

Alexander Skarsgård discusses his epic Viking movie “The Northman” and how his family roots are tied to Viking lineage.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. Please welcome, Alexander Scoggaw. Thank you. Thank you. The man himself, Alexander Scarsigard, Sweden's sexiest man five years, yeah, five times, over? Twenty years ago. Welcome to the Daily Show. First things first. You were on, you, what, you were on Stephen Colbert's show yesterday, weren't you? Yeah. Yeah. Huh.

Yeah. And Stephen Colbert tested, he said today he tested positive for COVID, yeah? Yeah. Yeah, he did. So you we may or may not have made out. Things got blurry after the show. No, I, yes, I was on on Stephen Colbert's show last night and I've tested on negative, extremely negative three times today, so I should be fine, but this is probably a good idea. Oh yeah, let's make this a very awkward first date.

This is a very awkward first date. This is my first time being in this situation. Yeah. This is nice. This is like Putin's table when he talks to people. Yeah, yeah. That's what this is. Yeah. Let's figure out what we're doing.

We can, we've got the, you know, we've got the vibe going on. I'm basically as intimidated as his advisors, okay. But this is like, thi, this, this, this, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, this, thi, thi, this, thi, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this is, this is like, this, thi, this is like, this is like, this is like, this is like, this is like, this is like, this is like, this is like, th. This is like, th. This is like, th. This is like, th. This is like, th. This is like, th. This is like, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. thi. this is like, this is like, this is like, thi. thi. thi. thi. ththis. This is, you know, we got the vibe going on. Congratulations on the movie. I, like, first of all, I love Vikings. I love, no really, I grew up loving Vikings, just like the mythology, like the, you know, the dragons, the stories, the everything. Because you know, you'll watch stories or you'll read stories as a kid. But Viking stories always seem like it was like the best combination of everything and you took what, 10 years to get this movie going?

Pretty much, yeah, pretty much 10 years, yeah. I feel like it's pretty, it's like your heritage. You are like a Viking, essentially. Well, I was born in Sweden and I'm from a Swedish family and my last name, Scar, it actually means Scar as a Viking name, uh, Gward means farm. And it's allegedly a place in on of the islands outside of Sweden. So you're Viking. Who knows? It was a thousand years ago, but according to my grandfather,

we're direct descendants of Scala. Elezon, let me say something. If I have any name, if like my last name was Trevor, Giant Slayer, I'd be like, yo, I slay Giants. I'm related to people Slade. Like, just claim it. So, so let's talk about the film a little bit, man. It's, I was actually, it's funny. I was in the movie.

I was watching everything everywhere all at once, and that's when I saw the first trailer and it was like, thrown it, like, I'm, I that, I that, I that, I that, I that, I that, I that, I that, I that, I that, I that, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, that, just, that, just, just, just, just, just, that, just, just, the, the, the, the, just, just, just, just, the, just, somea, somea, somea, somea, some. So, so, so, so. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so................................. So, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the. the. the. the. the. the. to. the. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. the. the. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, throws a spear at you, and then like your character grabs a spear, throws it back, like that was the moment. You know when you watch a trailer? I was like, I'm in, I'm buying, I'm buying my tickets. No, it's one of the most epic looking movies everything. Well, we want, that was kind of the reason the ephaic, the the world, the mythology, the spirits, through

the eyes of someone a thousand years ago. So that was kind of the goal in starting it. Well you've done it man it looks amazing, you look amazing in it. I mean, you know, like when you take... This state is getting better and better actually. If, uh, if Stephen didn't have COVID, we would probably be making out as well. Thank you so much for being on the show. Thank you for being, thank you for being negative and being so positive and joining up. Alexander Starves got everybody. Watch the Daily Show, week nights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central, and stream full

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