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Focus Features In the pivotal, weirdest, and most memorable scene in The Northman, Nicole Kidman delivers the monologue of her career. The monologue is loaded. Kidman’s character, Queen Gudrún, tells her son Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) that everything he thought he believed was a lie. After escaping death when he was a boy, Amleth spent his …
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Shameless appreciation of naked Viking chest in 3, 2, 1…. If you’re one of the many blessed who’s had a chance to see Robert Eggers’ latest film, The Northman, then you’re probably VERY aware that Alexander Skarsgård got absolutely JACKED to play the role of vengeful Viking Prince Amleth. Aidan Monaghan / © Focus Features …
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focus Simply put, Alexander Skarsgård is freaking ripped as hell in The Northman. Way more than he was in The Legend of Tarzan, which still astonishes Northman director Robert Eggers. As for the secret to Skarsgård getting even more jacked than he already is: calories. Tons and tons of calories. Celebrity trainer and movement coach …
Focus Features Alexander Skarsgard is a bit of an enigma: on the one hand, he is a very down-to-earth guy, on the other hand, he almost ran over teenage activist Greta Thunberg (it was an accident). But one thing’s for certain: he and Nicole Kidman have great chemistry! In a Twitter Q&A with the two …
William Fitzhugh, a Viking expert at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, explained (per ZME Science) that Vikings prided themselves on their appearance by regularly combing their hair and ironing their garments with hot rocks. Nevertheless, Vikings also embraced the pain of decorating their teeth: “When in-filled with pigment, these grooves would have made …
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Focus Features The Northman, the new film from The Witch and The Lighthouse writer and director Robert Eggers, features a naked sword fight on a volcano. Marvel could never. “When I first thought, ‘I want to make a Viking movie,’ I knew three things,” Eggers said in a recent interview. “I knew it needs to …
After the immersive eeriness of The Witch and the ambitious artistry of The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers turns to more conventional fare in The Northman, a brutal Viking revenge thriller based on the story that inspired Hamlet. With gorgeous Icelandic landscapes, grotesque pagan rituals, and dialogue that sometimes sounds like blank verse, it offers the kind …
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Getty Image/Ralph Ordaz It’s interesting that the teaming of Alexander Skarsgård and director Robert Eggers on The Northman was kind of an accident. Skarsgård and Eggers did have a dinner scheduled to discuss another project, but it’s only after the two started talking about their mutual interest in Viking culture did Skarsgård realize, oh, maybe …
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Focus Features It finally dawned on me about halfway through The Northman that the name of the protagonist, “Amleth,” an 8th century Viking prince on a mission to avenge the death of his father at the hands of his uncle, might be a play on “Hamlet.” Maybe I’m a little slow on the uptake. Maybe …
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To paraphrase the immortal words of Russ Hanneman, The Northman f*cks. It’s a rapturously received Viking film from the director of The Witch and The Lighthouse starring Hollywood bad boy Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Björk that features a naked sword fight on a volcano. There’s a lot to be excited for there. The historical …
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Getty Image The Northman starring Alexander Skarsgard as a super ripped Viking is already racking up rave reviews ahead of its theatrical release, and director Robert Eggers couldn’t be more thrilled to deliver his first blockbuster film after an intense production. Known for his exacting detail, the action-filled Viking epic is a bit of departure …
Promotion for The Northman, Robert Eggers’ historical Viking revenge epic, is in full swing as the cast and crew attend premieres, speak to the press about the film, and more commercials pop up on TV. But in cities like New York, it also involves big, splashy posters in public transportation hubs—something that can go horribly …
