{"id":189809,"date":"2025-12-13T13:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T13:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189809\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T13:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T13:52:06","slug":"stellan-skarsgard-thinks-son-alexander-staged-rebellion-against-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189809\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd thinks son Alexander staged &#8216;rebellion&#8217; against him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/639199_6181799_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd quit acting to join military\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd quit acting to join military\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd believed that his son Alexander tried to be rebellious when he stepped away from acting to join military. <\/p>\n<p>The Thor actor recently sat together with his son on Variety\u2019s Actors on Actors series, where the two had a chat about each other\u2019s career and best works. <\/p>\n<p>Most of Stellan\u2019s children including It: Welcome to Derry famed Bill, Gustaf, Sam, Eija, and Valter have followed their father\u2019s footsteps while choosing their careers. <\/p>\n<p>Alexander also started his acting career at the age of 13 but left it to pursue a career in navy. <\/p>\n<p>During the conversation, the 74-year-old asked his son, &#8220;You went into the military \u2014 did you do that in opposition to me, to provoke me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Big Little Lies actor innocently tried to convince his father that it was not a rebellion against the family rather he just wanted to choose his own path. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking back, I don&#8217;t think it was an act of rebellion against you. But coming from a bohemian family, I was like, &#8216;I want to find my own path.&#8217; The most extreme contrast would be to go into the military. So, it wasn&#8217;t a conscious &#8216;f*** you, Dad&#8217; thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stellan further admitted during the chat that he has always been proud of himself for not interfering in his children\u2019s career decisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd quit acting to join military\u00a0 Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd believed that his son Alexander tried to be rebellious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-189809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189809","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=189809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}