Alexander Skarsgård talks about squaring off in The Northman against The Mountain from Game of Thrones. ''He tried to go easy on me, but he still has to tap me lightly and I just went flying.'
Alexander Skarsgård recalls filming a fight scene in The Northman with The Mountain from Game of Thrones. Robert Eggers’ latest draws on Scandinavian folklore for an epic revenge tale set during the age of the Vikings. Skarsgård plays Prince Amleth, a young man bent on vengeance after the murder of his father.
The germ of this classic revenge tale should of course sound familiar, as it long-ago formed the basis for Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Eggers’ take on the story of Prince Amleth did not however require its star Skarsgård to learn loads of Shakespearian dialog. The challenge of being in The Northman was instead more of a physical one for Skarsgård, who has previously spoken about the exhausting experience of helping Eggers bring his epic Viking story to life.
"He tried to go easy on me, but he still has to tap me lightly and I just went flying. I was definitely quite sore after that week of filming. You do not want to fight the strongest man on the planet." Skarsgård’s own impressive physique has of course been heavily featured in marketing leading up to the release of The Northman. But as strong as the ripped Prince Amleth actor may look, he clearly is nowhere near as powerful as Björnsson, a man who once made his living winning strong-man contests, at one point holding the official title of World’s Strongest Man.
After Björnsson’s memorable turn as The Mountain on Game of Thrones, it makes all the sense in the world that Eggers would incorporate the actor into his own fantasy-adjacent film The Northman. And going by Skarsgård’s account of their on-set square-off, it seems Eggers got exactly what he wanted from the real-life Icelandic man-mountain.
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