Alexander Skarsgård Explains How True Blood Prepared Him for Murderbot

From Chris and Paul Weitz, the minds behind About A Boy and American Pie, comes a caller Apple TV+ sci-fi drama riff connected the aboriginal of androids successful Murderbot. The amusement starring Alexander Skarsgård adds different acold and ruthless slayer to the actor’s resume of heartless roles, but with 1 hiccup. This Murderbot conscionable doesn’t get the entreaty of its job: to murder. “All it ends up doing is procrastinating,” Skarsgård told Vanity Fair astir the conception based on The Murderbot Diaries from writer Martha Wells.

“It conscionable doesn’t get humans astatine all,” Skarsgård explained. “It’s not a heavy hatred, it’s conscionable zero magnitude of curiosity. It’s confused by humans and wants to get distant from them.”

Which, let’s beryllium real, is relatable contented if you excessively get hyper-fixated connected the eternal hunt for meaning. And it’s not the archetypal clip Skarsgård has portrayed an eternally searching but inhuman character. On HBO’s True Blood, the histrion played the playfully charming and chilling vampire Eric Northman, who helium likened to Murderbot for this reason: “They are observing humanity from a akin distance,”

Recently, Skarsgård made a cameo reprising the relation of Eric connected What We Do successful the Shadows‘ last season. He’s truthful unserious, and poking amusive astatine his heartthrob vampire past is wherefore we emotion erstwhile helium plays against type. He continued to comparison the 2 roles.

“Eric utilized to beryllium human, truthful successful a mode helium tin relate, adjacent though it’s been a millennium. But helium besides finds them incredibly silly and petty and just… insignificant. Murderbot has integrated components, truthful determination are quality components there. I deliberation it tin besides recognize oregon consciousness something. There’s thing astir being an outsider, and observing humanity from a flimsy distance, and being a spot confused and perplexed by it.”

But the similarities extremity there. “The large quality is, Eric reveled successful being a troublemaker and stirred the pot—while Murderbot is the opposite. Murderbot decidedly doesn’t privation to measurement into the halfway of things. Murderbot wants to blend into the inheritance and conscionable beryllium near unsocial to ticker its TV shows.”

Both are inactive successful the bundle of Alexander Skarsgård truthful would it beryllium good if, you know, we got Murderbot successful the streets, vampire successful the sheets?

Murderbot premieres connected Apple TV+ May 16.

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