It was an enormous little lie this complete time.
Alexander Skarsgård is setting the document straight on how his final identify is actually pronounced.
After the actor’s dad Stellan Skarsgård, 73, revealed on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” that their Swedish surname is commonly mispronounced, Alexander, 48, defined to the host, 61, the way it’s meant to be mentioned.
“He said we’re mispronouncing the name. It’s ‘Skarsgourd,’ is that how you say it?” Stephen requested the “Infinity pool” star on Tuesday’s episode of the late-night present.
“Exactly.” Alexander replied. “That little umlaut is an ‘oua’ [sound], it’s not an ‘a.’ It’s ‘Skarsgourd.’”
In 2016, the boys poked enjoyable at Alexander’s Swedish surname, as they placed on a hilarious skit the place the pair over pronounced the “ar” sound in Skarsgård.
This isn’t the primary time a star has come on Colbert’s present to drop a bomb about their identify.
Daniel Craig revealed in December that the present’s host has by no means mentioned his identify proper in all six occasions he’s appeared on this system.
“I have a bone to pick with you,” the “Queen” star, 57, expressed on the time. He then famous his identify is pronounced with an ‘ay’ sound, stating: “[It’s] Daniel Cr-ayg.”
“I hear the difference,” Stephen responded. “That is subtle, and I apologize. Daniel Cregg, f–k that guy. It’s Daniel Cr-ayg. I’m so sorry, please accept my apology.”
“It’s fine. Whatever,” the “James Bond” alum mentioned again.
Throughout Alexander’s newest look, he additionally touched on how his father walked round the home bare whereas he was rising up.
“Not so much as a child, as a teenager, a bit more,” confessed the “Murderbot” star. “Well, he wasn’t a fan of clothes. I noticed that he was wearing clothes when he was on your show. That made me very proud. He wouldn’t wear clothes at home, really.”
As for his or her household — which incorporates brothers Gustaf, Sam, Invoice, Valter, Ossian and Kolbjörn, and sister Eija — the origin of Skarsgård was defined in 2018.
exterior “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” studios. Darla Khazei/INSTARimages
Invoice, 34, made a YouTube video detailing how his household took on the identify Skarsgård within the mid-Twentieth century. On the time, the Swedish authorities inspired individuals to vary their final names in the event that they had been too much like different Swedish names.
“Not a lot of people outside of Sweden know this, but we had a problem in sort of the ’40s and the ’50s that there was too many Nilssons, and Anderssons, and Johanssons in the country, so it’s really hard to distinguish one Nilsson to another Nilsson,” Invoice acknowledged.
“The government sort of encouraged people to come up with their own last names. So my family used to be Nilsson and then my grandfather and his brothers were encouraged to change their names, and they changed them to Skarsgård.”
Alexander obtained his begin within the US within the 2001 comedy “Zoolander.”
“The fact that we shot it driving this Jeep down Broadway [in Manhattan], cutting through traffic, singing the Wham! song…. it was all very surreal,” he advised Leisure Weekly in 2022.
Alexander was solely 25 on the time and was in a play in Stockholm when he determined to accompany his dad on a enterprise journey to Los Angeles.
“It was my first audition,” he mirrored. “So I couldn’t quite believe that two weeks later I was in New York shooting that scene with Ben Stiller. And obviously, the infamous gasoline fight was a lot of fun.”
