Alexander Skarsgård in His Element

While the actor’s recent roles have taken a more dramatic turn, including his pivotal part in ‘Big Little Lies,’ his outlook is as positive as ever

AT LUNCHTIME in Los Angeles, the slate-gray sky has an ominous, end-of-days feel. Alexander Skarsgård enters Eveleigh, a quiet restaurant tucked away on the Sunset Strip, beaming amid the June Gloom, the annual atmospheric aberration that makes Hollywood resemble the Hebrides. “It’s great,” he says. “There’s been so much darkness in my...

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