{"id":170614,"date":"2025-12-02T07:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170614\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T07:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:17:07","slug":"alexander-skarsgard-hilariously-reminds-miriam-margolyes-of-the-first-time-they-met-alexander-skarsgard-miriam-margolyes-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170614\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd Hilariously Reminds Miriam Margolyes of the First Time They Met | Alexander Skarsgard, Miriam Margolyes | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/alexander-skarsgard\/\" title=\"Alexander Skarsgard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/miriam-margolyes\/\" title=\"Miriam Margolyes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miriam Margolyes<\/a> made for a surprisingly delightful pairing on a recent episode of The Graham Norton Show.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old Swedish actor was asked to share an anecdote about the first time he\u2019d met Miriam years earlier, when she was renting out a room in her Santa Monica condo.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/harry-potter\/\" title=\"Harry Potter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter<\/a> alum had no memory of the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I clearly made a strong impression on her,\u201d Alexander joked.<\/p>\n<p>They then had a playful back-and-forth about why he didn\u2019t end up taking the room, with Miriam wondering if it was dirty or too expensive. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/pillion\/\" title=\"Pillion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pillion<\/a> actor said that wasn\u2019t the issue. Instead, it was that he thought there was some brewing sexual tension between them and worried things would get messy.<\/p>\n<p>Miriam immediately responded, \u201cDarling, I\u2019m 84 and gay! I\u2019ve been with my partner for 58 years!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entire couch\u2014which also included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/nicola-coughlan\/\" title=\"Nicola Coughlan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Coughlan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/glenn-close\/\" title=\"Glenn Close\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Close<\/a>\u2014burst into laughter along with Graham and the audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, I probably misread the situation,\u201d Alexander responded.<\/p>\n<p>A cheeky Miriam scoffed and said, \u201cOh, you\u2019re talking out of your bottom!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham then cut in to ask Nicola if she had ever worked with (or almost lived with) Miriam, and she happily jumped into the joke, saying, \u201cI\u2019m your daughter!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alexander chimed in with a perfectly timed, \u201cAnd I\u2019m your father,\u201d to Nicola. The moment ended with both the True Blood alum and the Bridgerton star giving a bemused Miriam a hug. A priceless moment all around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/01\/alexander-skarsgard-rocks-pink-blazer-as-he-represents-pillion-at-gotham-awards-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the pink blazer Alexander wore to the Gotham Awards!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd and Miriam Margolyes made for a surprisingly delightful pairing on a recent episode of The Graham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-170614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}