Stellan Skarsgård was initially caught off guard when his son Alexander Skarsgård enlisted in the Swedish armed forces.
“You went into the military. Did you do that in opposition to me, to provoke me?” Stellan, 74, asked Alexander, 49, during Variety & CNN’s “Actors on Actors” series, which was published Friday, December 12. “I felt f***ed.”
Alexander, who has now followed in his dad’s footsteps as an actor, enlisted in Sweden’s Marine Corps when he was 19. (Alexander, one of Stellan’s eight children, briefly acted as a child in Sweden but quit at age 13.)
“Looking back, I don’t think it w...
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