I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.
All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
My plan was never to be an actor like my father.
As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.
I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.
When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'
As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.
I was thirteen, and I did a movie that got attention, and I got attention, and I didn't like it - it made me uncomfortable - so I just quit. And then I was trying to figure out what to do and was worthless at everything, so I was like, 'All right, I'll try acting again.'
I like to dress up and put on a nice suit for a party or a special event; I do enjoy it, but on a daily basis, I wear stuff that I feel comfortable in, you know?
I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.
In some people's eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that.
When you meet someone, of course you want it to last forever. It'd be very depressing if you didn't feel that way. But things change, and you maybe grow apart. You have to accept that.
It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.
Routines, or lack thereof, are a pretty good way to get to know someone.
I'm definitely a city kid.
'True Blood' was the most amazing adventure of my life; I met some of my best friends.
I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.
I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.
