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00:00 I had people staying in my house as I was rehearsing for the audition and one thing that I had hesitated on doing was really
00:08 perform the laughter because of people in the house and I kind of felt timid about it. So once I got into the car
00:16 that's when I really explored the ranges of
00:21 the laughter.
00:24 Hi, I'm Bill Skarsgård and
00:27 Esquire has asked me to explain a few things. Let's dive in, shall we?
00:32 The Crow is a modern reimagining of James O'Barr's graphic novel. Tell us about this new interpretation of the story. It's
00:46 very much a brand new interpretation of the story directed by Rupert Sanders and
00:53 played by myself. Rupert had a very particular and different take on it
00:58 and I really supported his vision. And yeah, whenever you do something that's done
01:04 so well before and
01:07 iconic, I think a good bet is to go
01:10 completely new with it and as opposed to just trying to do the same thing but failing at it. So that's what we did.
01:19 You said you're a fan of the original The Crow. What made Brandon Lee's performance so special and what do you hope fans will
01:26 take away from this reimagination of the story?
01:28 I was a fan of the first movie and I think Brandon Lee did something incredible with it.
01:33 What made his performance so special? The physicality and his presence, you know, there's kind of this
01:40 kitschy, campy feel to the original movie and those like how he delivered those one-liners really made it iconic.
01:48 I see you have made your decision.
01:50 Now let's see you enforce it. What will I
01:55 hope that fans take away from this one? I hope they're enjoyed.
01:59 You're a master of playing bad guys. Thoughts on playing a superhero? Well, in a way Eric is kind of a
02:05 superhero.
02:07 Anti-superhero. I'm an anti-superhero. And
02:10 thoughts on playing one? I think I just did and you know, leave it at that.
02:16 You nailed your country accent in Devil All The Time. Using that accent tell us what it was like
02:21 working with such an amazing cast. No, it's terrific. I got to work with Tom Holland
02:27 and well, I didn't actually get to work with him, but I feel like I'm doing like George W. Bush impersonation at the moment.
02:34 See the thing is about working with
02:36 Tom Holland is that he's a good actor.
02:39 Terrific actor.
02:42 It's just a great all-in-all experience shooting Devil All The Time and you get into work with Tony Kampus,
02:48 director.
02:52 It's just George Bush.
02:55 You play the best-dressed villain in cinema in John Wick Chapter 4. What's your personal style like?
03:02 Black t-shirt.
03:04 I'll take a black t-shirt and
03:08 black jeans and white sneakers on Friday.
03:12 What was your first reaction to seeing yourself as Count Warlock in Nosferatu?
03:17 So terrified. Robert Eggers showed me the molds and
03:22 sort of the direction of the character and I'm not, I'm like, that does not look anything
03:29 like me. And I was really worried that I couldn't perform this face.
03:35 But in the end it looked amazing.
03:38 Those nails, be honest, how did you function with those claws in between takes? Well, wiping my ass.
03:46 These
03:50 pieces were very easy to take off. That was the only thing that was easy to take off were the fingers.
03:55 So I could pull them off between takes if I had to go
04:00 to the number two. If you could sit down for dinner with any of your characters, who would you choose and why?
04:06 Count Orlok. Oh boy, Count Orlok.
04:11 Would be a lot of fun to have for dinner.
04:16 That's hilarious. What else do we have here? Willard Russell. Boring. Clark Wolfson
04:24 would be a lot of fun. The Marquis, fancy, of course. If he's paying. Yeah, it's a couple of good ones.
04:30 You starred alongside your brother Alex in Whitewater Fury. What was that like?
04:34 I was nine years old and I was playing my brother Alex's younger brother in the movie.
04:41 The all-time classic Whitewater Fury. We've all seen it. And I remember auditioning with Alex and Alex was like,
04:49 "Bill, just so you know, like they're auditioning hundreds of kids. Like you're probably not gonna get it. So you can't be upset if you don't get it."
04:57 And I was like, "Yeah,
04:59 I got it." And I acted the shit out of my older brother in that movie. If you ever watch that movie,
05:06 you're gonna see who the real
05:08 Skarsgard brother is. What was the audition process like for Pennywise? The auditioning process was very
05:17 strange. The audition for Pennywise in of itself was so much fun because he's not like me.
05:24 So I could just go and really explore my
05:29 imagination and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Up until the second audition, the callback,
05:36 when I painted myself very poorly.
05:39 I had this notion that like I would want it to put the makeup on myself because I get into character this way.
05:47 But then it turned out that I have no idea how to put on makeup.
05:50 So I looked terrible. It felt terrible. Driving through Hollywood with a clown face.
05:56 That's the moment when I knew I made it.
05:59 Is this true? Please explain. Plus how easy is it to freak out Bill Hader? Be honest. It's true.
06:07 It's partially true. Yeah, he asked me at one point.
06:10 He's like, "Oh the eye thing. The eye thing? Like that's like, do they do that afterwards?" And I was like, "You mean this?"
06:17 I don't know if he was freaked out by it, but maybe he was. You voiced Qrow in Eternals.
06:23 How does a CGI performance differ from something like Pennywise? Well, doing a CGI performance you feel
06:30 absolutely ridiculous. They called me and asked if I wanted to do a voiceover job
06:37 for the Marvel movie. Then they also said you have to fly in and do the scene with
06:43 Angelina Jolie like on Thursday and all they gave me was like a picture of the character.
06:51 So I was just looking at this CGI
06:54 creature pretending to do its voice. It's also like seven feet tall or whatever.
07:00 So I'm like, "What does that sound like?" And then performing to Angelina Jolie and
07:07 it was a treat.
07:10 No, it felt so absolutely ridiculous and bizarre, but it was also very fun. Now shooting in prosthetics
07:18 you feel like the character 100%. Like the face and everything. You look in the mirror and you're like,
07:25 "Goddamn right." So I prefer it. I heavily prefer it. In Boy Kills World, your character doesn't speak.
07:32 What did you learn from acting without any dialogue? It was fun.
07:35 You know, I thought that was a great challenge for me to kind of pantomime my way through a film.
07:42 A lot of the scenes where it's like the dialogues in my head, I would say the dialogue and then
07:48 you know,
07:49 say it.
07:51 Which was quite funny. So I would do the scene and you would get the rhythm of it and
07:55 especially with Gwen who plays my little sister who I hallucinate throughout the movie, you would have dialogues.
08:01 So I would say the dialogue and then pause.
08:04 It was fun.
08:07 Rumor has it you're a James Bond fan. What would your Bond villain name be?
08:12 I am a huge James Bond fan and was obsessed with James Bond as a child.
08:18 When I was like six or seven, they showed all the James Bond movies up to that point every Friday.
08:25 So I had seen them all as a six-year-old and if you go back now and watch James
08:32 Bond movies like the Sean Connery ones and you're a six-year-old, it's questionable morale.
08:38 What my Bond villain name would be? Mozart.
08:43 Mozart Drogobych. Mozart Drogobych is really good at frying eggs.
08:50 I hope that explains
08:52 everything that you need to know about the world. Thanks for watching.
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