Alexander Skarsgård

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Alexander Skarsgård (Murderbot, Melancholia, True Blood) is an Emmy Award-winning actor. Alexander joins the Armchair Expert to discuss accidentally signing up for a month-long cross country ski trek in the South Pole, gaining 25 pounds and long hair in the final season of True Blood because he was prepping to play Tarzan, and how everyone in Sweden exhibits symptoms of No Tall Poppy Syndrome. Alexander and Dax talk about why a sprinkle of anarchy would be good in Sweden, growing up around actors and artists he longed for a dad that drove a Saab, and joining the military as a response to being raised by bohemians. Alexander explains booking his first Hollywood audition for Zoolander, playing AI gone rogue in Murderbot, and whether as a Swede he’s liberated from the hedonic treadmill of obsessing about money.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad free right now.
0:06.5	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.7	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:15.9	I'm Dax Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Padman.
0:18.6	That's me.
0:19.4	This was a very fun interview.
0:23.5	Alexander Scarsgar.
0:25.5	Oh.
0:27.0	Spicy hot.
0:28.6	Yeah.
0:29.4	What a stud.
0:30.4	I want to say.
0:31.6	Say it.
0:32.7	I'm gonna.
0:34.1	Just to clear my good name.
0:37.1	I'm very late in this interview.
0:40.6	And it is not my fault.
0:42.5	No.
0:43.4	Our guest was a half hour early.
0:45.0	Yes.
0:45.6	And I was in a meeting so I didn't get the text that you guys were starting.
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