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Those who have watched it, will remember it forever. <\/strong>First, the insults, the arms grabbed violently, the faces slapped with a firm hand that suddenly grabs her neck, the brutal pushing around, the punches in the stomach, the painful crawling\u2026 Then, the ecchymoses covering her body, the shame, the rage, the denial, and finally the savage doggy-style reunion in a hot shower\u2026 In the outbreak of the #MeToo movement and within two seasons only, Big Little Lies<\/em> has traumatized both men and women, teenagers as much as the elderly, the rich and the poor. With its awful depiction of an apparently perfect couple \u2013 he owns a large house on the West Coast, has two precious little girls and a well-filed bank account \u2013 the show unveils some forms of domestic violence, at times frontal or insidious, and shuts down the omerta surrounding abusive and out of hand sexual, domestic, and romantic relationships. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

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This disturbing, wicked, but realistic liaison has also sealed Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s first union on set.<\/strong> The two actors, with their perfect body, enact those cracks in their appearance and the slow downfall that follows in front of late Jean-Marc Vall\u00e9e\u2019s camera, who tragically died in December 2021. Stuck for an entire season in their gloomy love story, the couple will eventually grow out of the situation. Even if nobody ever questioned the Australian actress\u2019 abilities to portray an emancipated but captive woman, no one knew that the unforgettable Tarzan could get in the skin of a true monster \u2013 a man with a chilling, almost Hitchcockian beauty, who turns out to be half-evil a gentleman and half-ideal a demon.  <\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Not only did Big Little Lies<\/em> get him accustomed to major roles and awards,<\/strong> but it also turned him into an actor \u2018made in Hollywood\u2019. The Swedish man belongs to a family of actors \u2013 his father Stellan played for the greatest directors, such as Ingmar Bergman, Lars von Trier and Denis Villeneuve, and his brother Bill embodied a frightening killer clown who goes after children in It. However, Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd wants to detach himself from this label by using and messing with his image, as well as by advocating for hard work and persistence as keys to success in each of his interviews. While he was awarded the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for a mini-series in 2017, the latter who claimed in the American magazisne Interview that he would read the whole scenario of a project the day before going on set, came up with an audacious project ten years ago. And it was none other than the direction of a film about the Vikings, which according to him would avoid gender stereotypes and debunk the myth about the \u201cNorthman\u201d. He states: \u201cWe would dream about directing a great epic adventure that would match the historical reality. A thing that was quite impossible to do, because a lot of facts, cultural aspects and resources about the Viking mentality remain in the dark. So, we wanted to make a film that would teach us about that and would give the audience the feeling of being brought back to that era<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\r\n\n

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