Alexander Skarsgård on His First Kiss, Jessica Lange, and Dr. Pepper | Screen Tests | W magazine

In this Screen Tests interview, 'Big Little Lies' actor Alexander Skarsgård talks about his first kiss, his childhood crush on Jessica Lange in 'Tootsie', tasting Dr. Pepper for the first time, trying to make cowboy boots cool in Sweden, and his brief experience as a child actor. Transcript My name is Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård. In the States, it's Alexander Skarsgard. When I was a kid, I spent a summer in Texas when I was eight, which was pretty cool for a kid from Stockholm. That was my first time in the States, first time I tasted Dr. Pepper, which blew my mind. And just to be around horses and cowboys and a desert, which we don't have much of a desert in Sweden, so I thought it was so cool. And I got my first real cowboy boots out there and a hat. And then I got back to Sweden a couple months later, and I proudly wore those boots to school, and I thought all the girls would love me, and like everyone would just faint when they saw those real crocodile boots. And instead everyone mocked me. In Stockholm, people there don't quite appreciate cowboy boots. They thought I was wearing women's shoes. It didn't quite go down as I had hoped. When I was a teenager, I did not want to be an actor. I was dead set on doing something else. I was a child actor in Sweden, and I just, yeah, didn't like it. Then I did this movie when I was , a small Swedish movie, and it got a little bit of attention in Sweden, and it just ma