Nude scenes without penis: Alexander Skarsgård felt like Ken doll

In the new Apple series “Murderbot”, Alexander Skarsgård (48) plays a sexless security robot, which suddenly developed its own will and preference for soap operators. For the actor, who has repeatedly demonstrated his penchant for bizarre roles and a lot of bare skin in his career, the nude scenes were a special challenge, as he has now revealed to the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. So he felt like “Barbie’s friend Ken” – in two ways below.

He initially thought that as the title “Murderbot” he would represent a “Rambo figure” pumped up to the edge with testosterone. Instead, he became the “socially inhibited android” without genitals, jokes the eldest son of actor Stellan Skarsgård (74).

Although the star presented its impressive physique in films such as “The Northman” or “Legend of Tarzan” or in series such as “True Blood” and “Big Little Lies”, he does not see himself as a sex symbol. On the contrary, compared to his Swedish compatriots, especially the residents of Stockholm, he just thinks himself on the “lower average. People are ridiculously attractive.”

Like his numerous international fans, the Swedes seem to see it completely differently. For the fifth time the actor was chosen there as “Sexiest Man Alive”.

Skarsgård has much more to offer in his next film project below. In “Pillion”, who recently celebrated its premiere at the International Film Festival, he mimics a self-confident leader of a biker gang, who is entering an SM relationship with another man (played by “Harry Potter” star Harry Melling, 36). The film by director Harry Lighton (32) was well received in Cannes – around eight minutes there was a standing ovation for “Pillion”. An official German theatrical release of the film has not yet been communicated.