John Clayton III

NEW/old promo stills for HIDDEN which was released 5 years ago September 15, 2015.

Alexander Skarsgård played Ray in the film from The Duffer Brothers. This is what he told GQ about the movie in 2018:

“Hidden - well, it was a very intense shoot. The guys [The Duffer Brothers] had done a 3-minute short that I saw and I thought it was really good. And then I met them and they were late twenties at the time, but I could tell that they had something very unique. They were very, very smart. They knew exactly how they wanted to tell the story and were heavily influenced by early [Steven] Spielberg and that kind of visual language. It was a tough shoot because it was basically three characters in a basement for 85% of the movie. Andrea Riseborough plays the mother and I’m the dad. It’s about a couple and their daughter hiding - post apocalyptic movie about a family hiding in a bomb shelter and then there is a twist towards the end, but… Yeah, it was a tough one because I had to lose weight for it so I was kind of running on fumes for two months so I was always starving to try to look emaciated. I had very low energy and we were in this dark basement and there was like a fire going off and there was like rats running around and kids crying. It was just like a lot of darkness. But they are incredible and I couldn’t be more thrilled for them today with their success with Stranger Things because they deserve it. They are hard working guys and incredibly talented.” - Alexander Skarsgård 

Alexander Skarsgård as Lincoln in WHAT MAISIE KNEW, an official selection of #TIFF and had its world premiere September 7, 2012

I will jump with you arf arf !! Hehehehe thank you again !!

Alexander Skarsgård in EXTRA magazine (Sweden, dated August 23-29, 2018)

Festival attracted Hollywood stars

Music festival Way Out Wed attracted party and dance-loving people to Göteborg. Several Swedish celebrities appeared in the festival area to listen to the artists who played. Hollywood star Alexander Skarsgård was one of them.

Hollywood Glitter - Alexander Skarsgård was hanging out in the VIP section with other Swedish celebrities.

The TIFF Schedule is out! Check out new info on #TheHummingbirdProject and #HoldtheDark #AlexanderSkarsgard

For The Hummingbird Project:

Saturday, September 8, 2018 - 3:00 p.m. / Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre

Sunday, September 9, 2018 - 11:15 a.m. / Scotiabank Theatre

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 1:45 p.m. (this is for press & Industry only) / Scotiabank Theatre

Plus they added this:

Jesse Eisenberg and an almost unrecognizable Alexander Skarsgård play cousins Vincent and Anton Zalesky in Academy Award-nominated director Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project.

Determined to create a more efficient way of transmitting information between stock exchanges, the cousins scheme to lay fibre-optic cable from Kansas City to New York, gaining them and their clients crucial seconds in order to trounce their competitors. Vincent — the force behind the scheme — is a frantic dreamer who pursues his ideas with zealot-like intensity while promising everyone the moon. Anton is the brains, a socially awkward data wiz with few friends besides Vincent. Both end up in the crosshairs of their ruthless former employer Eva Torres (Salma Hayek), a Wall Street lion willing to devour anyone unlucky enough to get in her way. Unfortunately, Anton hasn’t entirely figured out how to make the cable connection fast enough to warrant the expense. As time runs out, Vincent’s claims of grandeur get progressively wilder.

Extraordinary performances by the leads propel The Hummingbird Project. Eisenberg’s Vincent provides the heart. He’s so determined to escape his working-class roots and follow his dreams that he doesn’t realize who he might take down with him.

Skarsgård is a revelation. His Anton is a genius who can’t function away from his keyboard. Hulking over everyone, but constantly hunched over, Anton looks like a giant forced into a smaller body.

A tragicomedy about hustlers (read: venture capitalists) fighting the establishment and even the course of history itself, Nguyen’s latest is his most assured work since his widely celebrated Rebelle.

STEVE GRAVESTOCK

For Hold the Dark: Watch the official trailer here!

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 6:00 p.m. / Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre Thursday, September 13, 2018 - 1:00 p.m. / Elgin Theatre Friday, September 14, 2018 - 9:45 a.m. / TIFF Bell Lightbox Saturday, September 15, 2018 - 2:00 p.m. / Ryerson Theatre

With three features under his belt — and two of them, Blue Ruin and Green Room, screening at the Festival — Jeremy Saulnier has already staked a claim as a master craftsman of moody, character-driven thrillers in which acts of violence are swift, merciless, and seem to have emerged from some primal pith within the human psyche.

With Hold the Dark, the director’s signature is now fully discernable, though the film’s premise feels worlds away from those of its predecessors. Starring Golden Globe winners Jeffrey Wright and Alexander Skarsgård (also appearing at the Festival in, respectively, The Public and The Hummingbird Project), and Golden Globe nominee Riley Keough, this Alaska-set murder ballad is chilling in every sense of the word.

A child is missing. His home is one of a handful of trailers on the edge of the wilderness. His father (Skarsgård) is serving in the Middle East and his mother (Keough) seems to be succumbing to cabin fever. She calls in Russell Core (Wright), a writer and expert on wolves; she believes the creatures took her boy and hopes Core can find him.

Core accepts the mission as a pretext to visit his estranged daughter in Anchorage, but quickly realizes he’s taken on a stranger and more sinister task that he could have anticipated. He finds himself in the middle of both a long-simmering dispute between a disenfranchised Indigenous community and the local authorities, and a mass-murder investigation.

Adapted from William Giraldi’s novel by actor and scenarist Macon Blair - who has appeared in each of Saulnier’s features - Hold the Dark is equal parts neo-noir and ancient myth. Tinged with the supernatural but grounded in grisly realism, it is a nasty campfire tale you won’t soon shake off.  

HOLD THE DARK has a new Instagram account! [Watch trailer here]