Alexander Skarsgård Explains How True Blood Ready Him for Murderbot

From Chris and Paul Weitz, the minds behind About A Boy and American Pie, comes a brand new Apple TV+ sci-fi comedy riff on the way forward for androids in Murderbot. The present starring Alexander Skarsgård provides one other chilly and ruthless killer to the actor’s resume of heartless roles, however with one hiccup. This Murderbot simply doesn’t get the attraction of its job: to homicide. “All it finally ends up doing is procrastinating,” Skarsgård instructed Vanity Fair concerning the idea based mostly on The Murderbot Diaries from creator Martha Wells.

“It simply doesn’t get people in any respect,” Skarsgård defined. “It’s not a deep hatred, it’s simply zero quantity of curiosity. It’s confused by people and desires to get away from them.”

Which, let’s be actual, is relatable content material when you too get hyper-fixated on the everlasting seek for that means. And it’s not the primary time Skarsgård has portrayed an eternally looking out however inhuman character. On HBO’s True Blood, the actor performed the playfully charming and chilling vampire Eric Northman, who he likened to Murderbot for that reason: “They’re observing humanity from an identical distance,”

Lately, Skarsgård made a cameo reprising the position of Eric on What We Do within the Shadows‘ last season. He’s so unserious, and poking enjoyable at his heartthrob vampire previous is why we love when he performs towards kind. He continued to check the 2 roles.

“Eric was human, so in a method he can relate, though it’s been a millennium. However he additionally finds them extremely foolish and petty and simply… insignificant. Murderbot has natural elements, so there are human elements there. I believe it may possibly additionally perceive or really feel one thing. There’s one thing about being an outsider, and observing humanity from a slight distance, and being a bit confused and perplexed by it.”

However the similarities finish there. “The massive distinction is, Eric reveled in being a troublemaker and stirred the pot—whereas Murderbot is the alternative. Murderbot undoubtedly doesn’t wish to step into the middle of issues. Murderbot desires to mix into the background and simply be left alone to look at its TV reveals.”

Each are nonetheless within the package deal of Alexander Skarsgård so wouldn’t it be okay if, you understand, we obtained Murderbot within the streets, vampire within the sheets?

Murderbot premieres on Apple TV+ Might 16.

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