Stellan Skarsgard thought his son Alexander Skarsgard’s decision to join the military was done to “provoke” him.<\/p>\n
The Sentimental Value star – who has Alexander, 49, Gustaf, 44, Sam, 43, Bill, 35, Eija, 33, and Valter, 29 – with his first wife My Skarsgard as well as Ossian, 16, and Kolbjorn, 13, with his second wife Megan Everett – has seen most of his kids follow in his footsteps and while the Pillion actor began his screen career when he was 13, he then let it take a back seat so he could pursue a naval career.<\/p>\n
However, Alexander insisted he didn’t do so as a deliberate “act of rebellion”, though he was keen to forge his own path.<\/p>\n
In a discussion for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Stellan asked his son: “You went into the military \u2014 did you do that in opposition to me, to provoke me?”<\/p>\n
He replied: “Looking back, I don’t think it was an act of rebellion against you. But coming from a bohemian family, I was like, ‘I want to find my own path.’ The most extreme contrast would be to go into the military. So it wasn’t a conscious ‘f*** you, Dad’ thing.”<\/p>\n
Stellan admitted: “I felt f*****.”<\/p>\n
The 74-year-old star’s candid admission won praise from his son because the Big Little Lies star “never felt” his dad’s hurt.<\/p>\n
He said: “You’re a tremendous actor, Father, because I never felt that.”<\/p>\n
Stellan noted he has always been proud to not interfere in his children’s decisions.<\/p>\n
He said: “But being a military evader like me, it felt like, ‘Oh, wow.’<\/p>\n
“I also knew that all you eight kids have different ways of approaching everything. Maybe I’m lazy, but I think it’s best to let you do it on your own.”<\/p>\n
Alexander landed his first role when he was just seven years old thanks to “straight-up nepotism” after actor-director Allan Edwall visited their family home, and he had never been interested in being an actor.<\/p>\n
He said: “He probably just asked you… I don’t even think I auditioned for it.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t want to be an actor. I’m still trying to figure it out \u2014 what do I do when I grow up?”<\/p>\n
And Alexander longed to have a “normal” family with a briefcase-toting dad.<\/p>\n
He said: “My dream was for my family to be normal and fit in and be like everybody else’s family.<\/p>\n
“For you to have a briefcase, that would’ve been fantastic, rather than a weird tote bag that you found in India.<\/p>\n
“Most people in our family are artists \u2014 a lot of eccentric, big personalities that I loved. But the early teens, bringing friends over was always like, ‘Oh, God,’ because I wanted it to be like everyone else’s household.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stellan Skarsgard thought his son Alexander Skarsgard’s decision to join the military was done to “provoke” him. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[44280,321,93,61,60,102086,62550],"class_list":["post-189521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alexander-skarsgard","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-my-skarsgard","tag-stellan-skarsgard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189521","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=189521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}