By Philiana Ng Skarsgard reprises his role as Eric Northman, the 1,000-year ... wearing nothing but a pair of sunglasses and snow boots, sitting on a toilet reading a book while in the middle ...

No, you really don’t. Eric was a man with a plan, so when someone sought to derail that mission, like Sookie (Anna Paquin) when she didn’t quite read the room at Russell’s (Denis O’Hare ...

and the roles that shaped him Alexander Skarsgård kept his thong from The Northman as a souvenir: 'It wasn't a choice, it was a gift' True Blood's Eric Northman vs. The Northman: Alexander ...

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and ... With the help of Icelandic author and poet Sjón, Eggers crafted The Northman, a historically accurate tale of honor, revenge ...

In fact, he’s played a Northman before: Eric Northman, the proudly undead ... Though he grew up hearing Viking stories, Skarsgard read books and watched lectures on them to prepare for his ...

The same is true of Skarsgård, whose career-igniting role on “True Blood,” a vampire with Viking roots and the name of Eric Northman, feels like both a sequel and a warm-up act to this one.

Fans of True Blood will immediately remember Skarsgård’s portrayal of Eric Northman during the show’s seven-season run. And then, Big Little Lies fans will think back to his take on Perry ...

The first trailer for Robert Eggers’ “The Northman” combines the best of both worlds: it’s a bloody and epic Viking story that should tantalize any action fan, but it’s also hauntingly ...

If the current state of the world is not intense enough for you, perhaps travel back to the time of the Vikings in “The Northman” trailer. The star-studded cast for the upcoming revenge film ...

like Robert Eggers' The Northman, there'll be plenty of historically authentic props to choose from. From a set that star Alexander Skarsgård described to The Late Show host Stephen Colbert as ...

If the current state of the world is not intense enough for you, perhaps travel back to the time of the Vikings in “The Northman” trailer. The star-studded cast for the upcoming revenge film ...