Skarsgård is hardly the one particular person pressured to stretch their performing muscle tissue for Wicker. “The Wicker Husband” has already been became a musical with music and lyrics by Darren Clark and a ebook by Rhys Jennings. The stage manufacturing has been mounted throughout the U.S. and the UK, usually with spectacular results to deliver the titular partner to life.
That side isn’t what worries Skarsgård. The actor has definitely been a part of huge productions prior to now, even past the false fangs and pretend blood he utilized in True Blood. Along with performing in addition to CGI creations of the King of the Monsters and the Eighth Marvel of the World for 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, Skarsgård was in lavish productions resembling Brandon Cronenberg’s stomach-churning Infinity Pool and Robert Eggers’ Viking epic The Northman. Extra lately, Skarsgård obtained a warm-up for Wicker by portraying a distinct inanimate object that positive aspects sentience. On the Apple TV sequence Murderbot, Skarsgård portrays the titular android, who begins to develop a way of self that places him in battle with the creators who designed him as a safety equipment.
Primarily based on his feedback at Sundance, the Wicker Husband could have an analogous private journey as Murderbot, however begins in a really totally different place than somebody known as, nicely, Murderbot. Wicker appealed to him as a result of “it wasn’t heavy-handed or didactic or preachy. It was so humorous and candy and clearly a really attention-grabbing character to play,” he revealed. “It was a stretch, as an actor,” he added.
These final phrases, Skarsgård delivered with an enormous smile, proving that his follow enjoying the Wicker Husband is paying off already. And certainly, it is going to be an attention-grabbing departure from a blood-soaked Viking (The Northman), a useless creator stuffed with self-delusion (Infinity Pool), or a BDSM dom (Pillion).
Wicker premiered Jan. 24, 2026, on the Sundance Movie Pageant.
