Alexander Skarsgard: How We Shot The Nude, Bloody 'Rolling Stone' Cover

Alexander Skarsgard has a new interview in British GQ, and he talks about what it was like to be naked and covered in blood with his 'True Blood' costars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer on the cover of Rolling Stone.

He tells the magazine:

We showed up and we shot very PG-13 with our clothes on for basically the whole day, like six or seven hours. Then towards the end the photographer said, "I have this, these shots are beautiful and the magazine is going to be happy with them but I'd like to try something if you guys are game." He explained it and it was just one of those things in the moment where we all looked at each other, we'd spent all day with the photographer, we felt comfortable with him, we knew that he was great and the atmosphere was right and we were like, "Fuck it, let's do it." No one thought that the magazine would go for it. They want to sell at Walmart. We thought this was going to be too offensive. But I guess they did. [Laughs] I'm glad they did! I liked it a lot. It was definitely more interesting than the safe version...

Skarsgard has previously talked about how he is so comfortable being nude that he goes sockless in nude scenes on the 'True Blood' set even though Moyer wears a sock.

Comments

[zLala]

05:58 PM on 11/18/2010

My only comment here is what a pain in the a** it must be to have a six to seven hour photo shoot. That seems like a ridiculous waste of film and time, honestly get a better photographer. Any professional could get the shot in 1-2 hours.

[FNA Cal Gal]

03:52 PM on 10/14/2010

I want to BE there when he goes sockless!

[aznurse]

12:14 AM on 10/08/2010

the show has been off for almost a month? This story was here weeks ago.
Odd.

[tangolas]

12:01 AM on 10/08/2010

This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtrOYsNCPmg

[kingcrimson2]

09:38 PM on 10/07/2010

Couldn't get through 2 shows of season one. Ugh.

[TheFlowerChild]

03:11 PM on 10/07/2010

I guess Rolling Stone and MTV are just doing anything they can to get attention this is just stupid.

[Downrivers]

12:53 PM on 10/07/2010

................Gonna buy five copies for my mother.............

[bluhare]

12:42 PM on 10/07/2010

Does that Skarsgard guy have more than one facial expression? Don't think I've ever seen one.

[Red Russet]

03:12 PM on 10/06/2010

"How we did a nude photoshoot." Duh. First we took off our clothes.

[Tugar]

02:22 PM on 10/06/2010

HUMAN REMAINS OR WHAT HERE !....

Looking at this picture of three people covered in BLOOD is almost as bad as the "BODY" pictures of deceased HUMANS, that's displayed as some kind of ART WORK .....all over the country ! ...... A REALLY CREEPY SHOW !

[memememeeeee]

07:34 PM on 10/06/2010

WHOA TURBO.. calm down. it's just a tv show.

[Southern Atheist]

01:44 PM on 10/06/2010

the idea for this photo was totally taken from the Dwarves cover album from 1990. This was done 20 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Guts_&_Pussy

[rel77]

02:28 PM on 10/06/2010

You could go even further back to the Beatles "butcher babies" cover that EMI said no to. Still, it's a rockin' cover.

[Mr Universe]

06:14 PM on 10/06/2010

Oh yeah. I totally forgot about that. That was classic.

[Kris Bui]

12:59 PM on 10/06/2010

I liked it! GREAT show... can't wait for Season 3 on dvd in May.

[cloudmaker]

12:55 PM on 10/06/2010

This is one of the answers to question nobody asked.

[kapalabhati]

12:50 PM on 10/06/2010

I loved that cover.
I have to say that I got some funny looks reading it out and about.

[memememeeeee]

12:08 PM on 10/06/2010

so people are offended by the "blood" in this picture?..... the show is called "true blood"... about vampires... (and others)

Are you all the same people who bought your son or daughter the Twilight series? about teenagers having sex with vampires? (that are TERRIBLE excuses for vampires I might add... Vampires don't "sparkle"!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[Steamboater]

02:00 PM on 10/06/2010

"so people are offended by the "blood" in this picture?"

If they were only offended more by the blood wasted in Afghanistan.

[MadManMinkin]

02:59 PM on 10/06/2010

We would have to see the suffering to take offense and embedding journalism nowadays is more like embalming it.

The law of cause and effect is unfallable. Ultimately, I canonly hope that our leaders will stop lining their pockets long enough to understand how history will judge them.

[memememeeeee]

07:30 PM on 10/06/2010

seriously, huh! Only problem with that, is this is something they can bitch about on a forum. War is too taboo for some to talk about..

[ibecametheman]

03:12 PM on 10/13/2010

Careful or I will bedazzle/glama you...