Bill Skarsgård was born to do this whole acting thing. No, really. “I grew up in an acting family,” he says over the phone from his home in Sweden.
“My father is an actor, my brothers are actors. So when I was young, as a kid, I was intuitively drawn towards it. I think that, as a child, it just inherently made sense to want to pretend for a living, because that's what children do all the time anyway.
” When he was around 16 or 17 and still trying to figure everything out, Skarsgård did one of his first big movies. Titled Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End , it was a loose adaptation of Jan Guillou's Crusades trilogy, a novel series about the fictional Knight Templar of the same name. His dad and his brothers were also cast in the film, and it was around this time that he realised that.
.. wait! He was actually pretty good at it.
“Okay, so acting is about making things not stupid and making things actually believable. I suddenly had this realisation at the time, and it provoked a passion within me, and this passion made me want to do as well as I possibly could.” The premiere for Arn was, at that point, Skarsgård's first big event.
And while he wasn't entirely sure what he wanted to wear to it, he knew he wanted something sick. Luckily, he lived right around the corner from a Filippa K store. He walked through the front door and came out with his first ever suit .
“It was a really nice suit from a really nice brand, but it also wasn't a super expensive fantas.