{"id":22523,"date":"2026-07-31T00:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=22523"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:20:23","slug":"alexander-skarsgard-transforms-into-a-basket-for-wicker-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=22523","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd Transforms Into a Basket For Wicker Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/alexander_skarsgard\"><strong>Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> has got one <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">wicker<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> new look.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The Emmy winner proved he has the ability to bring sex appeal even as a literal basket in the first trailer for his new movie <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Wicker<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. Skarsg\u00e5rd stars as the Wicker Husband made for <\/span><strong>Olivia Colman<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u2019s Fisherwoman, who after years of teasing from her fellow townspeople requests a husband from the town\u2019s Basketmaker (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/peter_dinklage\"><strong>Peter Dinklage<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">In the trailer, Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s face is fully wicker-ed out, with his entire body also given the same treatment. And obviously, the transformation was one the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">True Blood <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">actor was fully ready to undertake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cMost male actors dream of playing Hamlet at some point in their career. I never did,\u201d Skarsg\u00e5rd told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/alexander-skarsgard-nipples-wicker-trailer-exclusive-12030562\"><em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Entertainment Weekly<\/span><\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> in an interview published July 30. \u201cMy dream was always to have nipples made out of wicker. Thanks to our wonderful directors, <\/span><strong>Eleanor [Wilson]<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> and <\/span><strong>Alex [Huston Fischer]<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, and the brilliant artists at Weta in New Zealand, my dream has finally come true.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd has got one wicker new look. The Emmy winner proved he has the ability to bring sex appeal even as a literal basket in the first trailer for his new movie Wicker. Skarsg\u00e5rd stars as the Wicker Husband made for Olivia Colman\u2019s Fisherwoman, who after years of teasing from her fellow townspeople requests&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260730\/13621fad-28d9-4437-be58-831538a4fa42_1785437830.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}