The pace of work is not something the Swedish actor would recommend. Now he has decided to take the entire summer off.
The New York project is the aforementioned "The Death of Robin Hood." There, Skarsgård plays the role of Little John, companion to Hugh Jackman’s Robin Hood. Here, he is not a noble hero.
He is a selfish villain and bandit who only murdered and stole his way through 13th-century England, says Bill Skarsgård.
During a battle, Robin Hood is seriously injured. He ends up in a monastery where he is given the opportunity to look back on his life and regret some of the atrocities he has committed. From the realistic and bloody opening scenes, the film transitions into an almost meditative study in guilt and regret – and reveals secrets that threaten to further cloud Robin Hood's final days.
Dark and violent
The film is dark and violent, shot in the Irish wilderness. Bill Skarsgård says that "It might be a Robin Hood for our time."
It's dark in tone, it's dark in violence. It's perhaps something that represents the general state of affairs today. It's a dark tale but it's also beautiful. It's about someone who has to find some kind of reconciliation before he dies.
Bill Skarsgård got his own introduction to the myth of Robin Hood through the Disney animated version.
I was recently asked if I'd seen it. It's hard to avoid that if you're Swedish.
"Stolen and murdered"
He says the team thought about a backstory in which you could imagine Robin Hood as some kind of cult leader. Now only Little John remains in his company.
It's understood that they stole and murdered all over the country. Many are after them; it's a matter of blood revenge.
After last year's four film shoots, it's now time for a vacation with his family in Sweden.
I don't have anything going on right now. I'm looking forward to being off all summer.
The other year there was talk of a possible continuation of the Clark Olofsson TV series. Has that project been shelved?
No, it depends a bit on Jonas Åkerlund and me whether we can do it. Clark has passed away, and there is quite a lot more to tell about him. His life wasn't finished where the series ended. But we'll see. He's a character I've had fun with.
Age: 35 years.
Family: Wife Alida Morberg, two children.
Lives: Stockholm.
Occupation: Actor.
Previous roles in selection: "Arn", "There are no feelings in space", "The sky is innocently blue", "Simon and the oaks", "Hemlock Grove", "Atomic blonde", "It", "Villains", "It: Chapter Two", "Castle Rock", "The devil all the time", "Eternals", "Clark", "Barbarian", "Burn all my letters", "John Wick: Chapter 4", "Boy kills world", "The Crow", "Locked".
Current: In "The Death of Robin Hood" which has its Swedish cinema premiere on June 26.
