“I Want a Dozen Oysters and Then I’m Able to Roll”: Alexander Skarsgård on the Met Gala 2023 and Succession’s “Cas-Cock” Fashion

“I’m having oysters,” he instructed Self-importance Truthful shortly earlier than he attended the Met Gala 2023 to have a good time the opening of the Costume Institute’s new exhibit, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Magnificence.” “That’s my course of, that’s the one factor I would like. I would like a dozen oysters after which I’m able to roll, able to rumble.”
He additionally, after all, wanted the outfit: a black tuxedo that he described as “very traditional Thom Browne.”
“It’s fairly tight, fairly quick, and good large leather-based boots after which a cashmere white vest that I’m very keen on,” he stated. “I find it irresistible very a lot. It’s very stunning.”
Skarsgård wears “just about the identical garments each day, and it’s not very inventive or thrilling,” by his personal account, so chances are you’ll not suppose he’d be terribly enthused to get all completed up for the gala. You’d be mistaken.
“It’s vital to really feel that you simply’re enthusiastic about what you’re carrying and that you simply really feel snug in it and that you simply really feel like greater than a model, that you simply’ve been a part of selecting the entire look,” he stated, calling it “a pleasant juxtaposition” to his day-to-day seems to be.
“I’m not carrying white gloves, however perhaps I ought to,” he added with amusing.
He’s equally concerned and keen about what he wears onscreen in Succession, the place the wealth is extra stealth (no ludicrously capacious baggage right here) and he performs businessman Lukas Matsson, who is typically a foe to the Roy household, typically a good friend, and all the time very enigmatic and Swedish. Whereas he couldn’t reveal upcoming plot factors, like what the fallout from Matsson’s Holocaust joke tweet from Sunday’s episode would possibly appear to be, Skarsgård might and did talk about how Matsson ended up strolling barefoot throughout the tarmac in the newest episode. In brief, Skarsgård can’t be blamed for falling for a luxuriously textured carpet. Who wouldn’t lose the sneakers, actually.
“It wasn’t actually deliberate,” he stated. “I usually put on slides after I present as much as set and after we rehearse and I used to be carrying slides and the non-public jet we had been capturing in a really, very snug carpet. So I took my slides off and was strolling round barefoot. After which I assumed that that might be fairly enjoyable if Matsson—as a result of it is sensible that he takes his sneakers off on the aircraft, however that he doesn’t hassle placing his sneakers or something on when he walks over to aircraft. There was one thing in regards to the geography and the way in which the planes stood. There have been parked like 50 yards from one another they usually’re gonna do a large shot of Matsson strolling and I assumed it’d be visually fairly fascinating perhaps if he simply casually walked out with out sneakers on.”
All through his run on the present, Skarsgård has typically worn his personal gadgets as Matsson, just like the super-casual ensemble he wore when Logan (Brian Cox) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) ditched the household’s pre-wedding festivities and scrambled to his home in Lake Como, the place he shocked them by suggesting that GoJo purchase Royco, as an alternative of the opposite manner round.
“Once I got here to base camp that morning, I used to be carrying simply slides and a pair of sort of very informal pants and a grey T-shirt like a super-worn, like $50 T-shirt, if that—it might need been like a $20 T-shirt, however it positively wasn’t like a elaborate model,” Skarsgård stated. He talked to costume designer Jonathan Schwartz about his concept to put on his personal duds. “The Roys are all the time so immaculately tailor-made, clothes, tuxedos, or fits, all of the knitted sweaters—all the things’s like extremely costly and it seems to be costly and simply radiates cash. I assumed it’d be a pleasant energy transfer in a manner if Matsson is the sort of diametrically against that, tremendous informal.”
“The theme for his wardrobe was sort of informal peacocking, so the time period will likely be cas-cock,” he stated. “Lukas Matsson may be very cas-cock.”
Whether or not Matsson manages to get canceled over his now deleted tweet, or the Roy siblings throw the deal via backstage machinations and inventory manipulation, we’re assured to see extra horn-locking and puzzlingly modern shenanigans from Matsson.
“I’ve been dreaming with Matsson as a distinction to the Roys, visually the distinction, and in that it’s very, it’s a mix of very informal, but in addition, you’ll see in some later episodes, it’s numerous peacocking as effectively,” Skarsgård stated. “If you first see him, it would appear to be it’s like laundry day and he wears sweatpants, however then while you look nearer, it’s really like he’s carrying some ugly Crocs, however they’re designer, limited-edition from Japan, $20,000 Crocs, and his worn, previous T-shirt is definitely product of hair of toddler infants, people. Essentially the most bizarre, eclectic stuff.”