Skarsgard reprises his role as Eric Northman, the 1,000-year-old vampire, on the sixth season of the HBO series True Blood.
Richard Shotwell/Invision/APTrue Blood star Alexander Skarsgard is no stranger to nudity.
A new photo of the Swedish actor posted on Instagram features a naked Skarsgard, wearing nothing but a pair of sunglasses and snow boots, sitting on a toilet reading a book while in the middle of Antarctica. The image was posted by Inge Solheim, Skarsgard’s teammate for the charity Walking With the Wounded’s Virgin Money South Pole Allied Challenge.
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If the image looks familiar to True Blood fans, it should. In last summer’s season-six finale, “Radioactive,” Skarsgard’s character Eric Northman was last seen sunbathing naked while reading a book (the 1912 novel Den Allvarsamma Leken) in Sweden before bursting into flames.
Nudity is not a new thing for the actor. In an interview with Conan O’Brien last June, Skarsgard joked that it was a long time before he saw his actor father, Stellan, clothed. “I think I was 14 the first time I saw my dad wearing pants,” Skarsgard said.
Skarsgard has been keeping busy. In October, a long-haired (and blond) Skarsgard starred in Cut Copy’s music video for “Free Your Mind.”
True Blood will return for its seventh and final season this summer.
