Alexander Skarsgard barely worked for three years as he was frustrated at only landing roles due to his looks. The 43-year-old’s TV work in his native Sweden made him a heartthrob around the turn of the millennium, and he has been named the country’s sexiest man five times.
However, he has now claimed that his looks were a curse due to being typecast in boring roles – despite his father, Stellan, being an acclaimed film actor. “Suddenly I was considered, like, sexy, and I was having a really hard time finding interesting characters,” he told British newspaper The Times, explaining that he was only considered for roles like, “the jock, (the) high school football player.
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