Alex Skarsgard got drunk & led a chant at a Swedish soccer game: amazing?

Do you like Alexander Skarsgard more or less knowing that he’s the kind of guy who gets hammered at a soccer (football) game and stands in front of dozens (?) of fans, drunkenly heckling people and leading them in an impromptu chant for the team? I think I might like him more. You know why? Because I feel like Alex is a tightass when he’s in America. Like, he thinks America is for working, not playing around and getting all frat-boy drunk. But when he goes home to Sweden, he relaxes and flies his frat-boy freak flag and loosens up a bit. Thus, we get these kinds of video gems (this was taken at a Hammarby game a few days ago):

A YouTube commenter did a translation and now I really want to know the Swedish pejorative for vadge. Basically, Alex tells someone (a heckler) to “go to hell”. The heckler continues to taunt Alex and Alex says something about the guy being a See You Next Tuesday. The heckler says something about Alex’s “magical f—king hairdo” and then Alex leads the crowd in a chant about Hammarby (he’s asking “How will we have it?” and “Who’ll take it?” and “Who are the most beautiful?” etc). Something else: Alex just sounds sexier when he’s speaking in his native tongue. Mm… tongue.

And here’s the old drunk video of drunk Alex. You know what I’ve never noticed before now? Alex is wearing lady’s Capri workout pants. Seriously.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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  1. Anna says:

    HILARIOUS!

    • T.fanty says:

      There should have been a proper warning before that video. I just choked on my bagel. It’s almost as much fun as when Keifer Sutherland attacked the Christmas tree.

      Drunk Vikings are fun.

    • Minty says:

      I hope heaven is full of drunk Swede’s

  2. allons-y alonso says:

    Oh. My. Skargard. It does make me like him more. Such a wonderful Swedish larrikin.

    • Anna says:

      I want my own drunk Scandinavian now.

      • allons-y alonso says:

        @ Anna. Hello!!! 🙂
        Don’t we all? I never really saw what the big deal about him until I saw this video. Here we can observe the Skarsgard in its natural habit….and it’s great.

      • Cazzee says:

        That second clip had me crying with laughter. The butt-worship! I also liked how the other people in the room were convulsed with laughter.

        Very, very few people in this world are an amusing drunk and this guy is hilarious. Good for him.

      • Anna says:

        There should be some mail order service, no? The he personally is still leaving my loins mostly cold, I wouldnt kick his drunk and naked bum out of my bed, if I found it there.

    • LadyMTL says:

      Me too, I love him even more after seeing this! (Man, that was a bad sentence, lol). I’ve always adored hearing him speaking Swedish, it’s so very sexy.

  3. brin says:

    LOL….awesome!

  4. Mirella says:

    Hilarious!

  5. blue marie says:

    ha, drunken Skarsgard’s pretty funny.

  6. Mom2two says:

    That is funny. I do think Alex definitely feels more relaxed in his homeland than in the US. Of course, if he did that here, he’d probably have to apologize or something.

    • LAK says:

      He’d also be called out for being ‘immature’ and calls for him to grow up and possibly attend any number of rehab programmes.

    • Maureen says:

      He’s not afraid to act like this in the States. He’s afraid of acting like this and everyone finding out. HIs co-stars from Generation Kill said he was off the chart when he was drunk in Africa or wherever they were. Those guys didn’t even have words for the hot mess he became when he was drunk. I don’t think it’s cute or sexy. He SHOULD go somewhere and hide when he acts like this. If this were anyone but a sexy actor most women would be afraid to be in the same room with him behaving and cursing and screaming like this.

      • Milo says:

        Wow. I bet you’re tons of fun to hang out with.

      • Maureen says:

        I am, actually. Bet I can drink you under the table, too. I’m from Texas, dear. And my brand of fun isn’t calling people “c*nts” and starting fights.

      • jen says:

        Oh, you’re from Texas? That explains pretty much everything………

      • Maureen says:

        Oh here’s @jen again with her fly-by insults and innuendos, which she never fully expresses. Because passive-aggression.

      • Tara says:

        This is why they say dont mess with Texas!

      • bob says:

        Mild-mannered British TV Chef Delia Smith did exactly the same thing at her beloved Norwich, this is perfectly acceptable football behaviour.

      • Sixer says:

        @ Maureen

        I’m inclined to see it as horseplay and not genuine aggression. And I thought it was funny – but I can see why you don’t. It is the culture of European football fans. They all chant nonsense at one another. It’s as much the point of going as watching the game is.

        And um… this is such an improvement on the behaviour of football fans twenty or even ten years ago. I’d hate to see what you’d have made of a British football crowd back in the day.

  7. Tara says:

    Can’t stop laughing and I don’t know why. Its like when I got my first cocker spaniel. She was free and therefore matted, flea-bitten, snappish and a hot mess. Two months, a whopping vet/grooming bill and lots of paw holding later I found an exquisite, purebred angel beneath it all. rIP, Buffi, I miss you so much. Um, yeah. Maybe there’s no word in Swedish for stalker-like douchebag so at home he doesn’t have to act like one?

  8. Elodie says:

    Too bad he was still sober enough to keep them clothes on… oh well… *shrug* *polishes nails*

  9. erin says:

    Usually I find him really really hot but I wish I could unsee the football (soccer) video. It´s so redneck-ish

    • jen says:

      I’m guessing you’ve never been to a European football match.

      • kiki says:

        not necessarily, Jen. I am European too and still dislike men who do that although I grew up in an environment which tolerated it. some of us consider it stupid behavior.

      • erin says:

        I know that this is common behavior in stadiums but that does not mean I have to like it. I´m just wondering why so many comment that this (standing drunk in front of a crowd, giving the finger and calling someone a p*ssy) is funny or cute. I think it´s embarrassing- especially for someone who is 37. Also who would still find it funny and cute if it wasn´t Skarsgard or any other celebrity..
        I don´t have a problem with anyone being a die hard sportsfan or letting a bit loose – but you should know your limitations.

      • jen says:

        I guess the world is just made up of two different kinds of people – the ones who understand doing this at sporting events and those who don’t get it.

      • Bijlee says:

        And yet if people ever came down to a football game in the south they would laugh at us rednecks for our beer toting, sausage grilling, tailgating, and crazy team spirit ways.

      • bob says:

        Next thing you know they’ll be against the obligatory fat shirtless bloke at every Newcastle game.

    • kiki says:

      me too, erin! i really dislike that type.

    • Oops says:

      absolutely and I’m european (french) and I hate this behaviour and I went to some matches and I will never go again because I can’t stand alcoolics

  10. Sandy says:

    He’s done this before. There’s a clip from 2010 where he’s doing the same thing, leading the chant to taunt the opposing team. He’s a die hard fan, and that’s great!

  11. lucy2 says:

    Dude loves his team.

  12. Tiffany27 says:

    Can you imagine the amount of alcohol it must take to get his huge a** drunk?

  13. Diana says:

    I love him more. He’s a fun drunk, that’s for sure.

  14. Raven says:

    I love it and him. Kaiser’s right, the U.S. stifles him.

  15. jen says:

    A bit of a better translation:

    Alex flips everyone the bird and tells them “You can all go to hell!” because their previous chant was pathetic. Context: his beloved team was losing 0-3 and they’re in the second tier of the league – so dire circumstances.

    Then he yells at his friend Salle “Look at me you c**t (FYI the word is fitta)!!” and this Salle person yells back, “I was looking at Kennedy and his magical f*****g haircut!” (Kennedy is a balding player on the team).

    Then the chant. Then it ends with someone says, “What a piece of art!”

    The end.

    • lady mary. says:

      he he ,thanks jen,that dude is right this is indeed “viking art “,take note gaga ,miley

    • Ginger says:

      Thank you for that translation. I like the video even more now. I don’t like obnoxious drunks at sporting events but a little fun isn’t a bad thing. My understanding is these kind of chants are very common for European soccer games. Skars loves his team.

    • Claudia says:

      Yeah, he’s harmless. Kaiser should update the post with your translation 🙂

      I’ve never seen anything he was in, but he does seem like a fun, goofy guy. I’m not scandalized.

    • Minx says:

      Thanks for the translation, jen! Context is everything. I agree with Kaiser on this. He’s a lovely guy, he’s loads of fun to watch and when he’s on his home turf it’s 100x better for all…spectators and the spectated, I suspect. Love this man and the Skarsgård family to Reese’s Pieces. Ayup, I sure do.

    • Fargus says:

      It’s sports, the guy is having fun cheering the team on. This is no different than what goes on at a Dallas Cowboys Football Game in Texas. He’s a young, single man happy and enjoying himself at a Football game. Love A.S.

  16. Ellie66 says:

    What a lovely man. 😀

  17. lori says:

    At least we know now that he’s not pining away over the Bos getting married this month.

  18. Eleonor says:

    The only thing that could have made this video perfect was Askars wearing an horned viking helmet on his head.

  19. Ella says:

    Haha this is so funny. Imagine if an American celebrity had done this in an American match. They would’ve had to issue an official apology by now. Askars in Sweden is so much better than Askars in America.

    My boyfriend (who’s Finnish) is the biggest sweetheart who reads poetry and cries when watching chick flicks but when he’s at football matches he turns into a caveman and starts acting just like this. Maybe it’s a Nordic thing.

    • Spooks says:

      It’s not a Nordic thing. I’m from Southeastern Europe and people here take football very seriously. My friend and I are members of a supporters group ( the oldest one in Europe, actually ). He’s the biggest sissy I know, but also turns in to a caveman during a match.

      • TinyTurtle says:

        My husband is Danish and the man LOVES his football.
        I can not express how funny it is to watch HIM watching the world cup.

        One year he got so excited when denmark won a match he did this odd flip and fell off the couch and pulled his hamstring. I still make fun of him to this day.

    • ihanelma says:

      It’s a Pan-European thing. Football’s actually not even that big here in Finland, especially compared to ice hockey. Helsinki got filled with crazed masses when Finland won IIHF World Championship in 2011.

  20. Londongal says:

    Don’t have adequate vocabulary for how much I love both clips. 1st one: Viking. Hot. 2nd one: adorable drunk with added Scando attitude to nudity ie: it’s a-ok. Brava!

  21. drea says:

    One of the things I like most about Skars is his love for Hammarby. From what I know, they’re not a big, flashy club. Actually, I’m pretty sure they’re still languishing in second division after getting relegated a few years ago. But Skarsy loves them. Just look him in his club shirt go.

    • Devon says:

      I read something a while back where he talks about how terrible the team is but that it was his team. I like that he’s super supportive of his team and doesn’t hop the bandwagons!

  22. MissMary says:

    Oh my gods, he is great, lol. He was a child star in Sweden so I wonder if the tabloid/media presence in his life is super intense when he’s home or if it’s more “eh, whatevs, it’s that guy”.

    • jen says:

      I think mostly it’s just like, “Oh look, another Skarsgård” since pretty much everyone in their part of Stockholm knows them/is friends with them/has partied with them.

      But unfortunately that seems to be changing a bit. He used to say Stockholm was the place he could go to where no one cared and there’s no paparazzi, but just last week there were paparazzi pictures of him hanging out with Alicia Vikander. And especially with more young people on instagram, he has to stop to take pictures with people like every day when he’s just hanging out places with his friends.

      And that was really long. Sorry.

      • lori says:

        I was thinking the same thing. He has said in interviews before that there are no stalker paps in Stockholm…..and 2x in about a week we get Viking gold.

      • MissMary says:

        I wonder if it’s Swedish paps or “imported”? Hm. Either way, that’s kind of a bummer esp if it hasn’t been an issue in his life till now.

  23. Samigirl says:

    I get the same way at hockey games, so I love him even more for it! This man….gahhhhh…he makes my knees weak.

  24. Isabel says:

    I love his slurring and the confusion when his hat is suddenly gone. Oh Skars, Ily

  25. Elle says:

    It’s not the first time he’s done that, and it certainly won’t be the last. Such is the Skarsgard way 🙂

  26. LostinSpace33 says:

    I love seeing him completely relaxed (a.k.a. drunk) and in his own element. I’ve been known to cheer my Clemson Tigers (American college football) on in similar fashion, so I can certainly appreciate. The only thing better would’ve been him shirtless with his face and torso painted green and white! LOL

  27. MissWilso says:

    My god he is sexy

  28. I love him even more! This is how I act when I watch my Niners play, I can’t wait for this season to start!

  29. Maureen says:

    God, he’s an obnoxious drunk. This isn’t the first incident of this we’ve seen. I hate being around drunks like him. And I suspect he’s like this every single time he parties. I don’t think there’s ever a moderate place for his drinking. I don’t think he ever just reaches a happy bliss and stops there for the night. I think he drinks to absurdity, makes an a** of himself, embarrasses himself, picks fights, and then passes out. A raging, angry drunk this one. Nothing endearing or cute about this.

    • jen says:

      Uh that’s pretty much the opposite of how it is. He’s a fun loving drunk. There’s plenty of evidence of that.

      • Maureen says:

        There’s plenty of evidence that he’s raging when drunk, picks fights, and cannot control himself from exhibiting inappropriate physical behavior. If it’s true–as Rubin says–that the real self comes out when drunk then we’re to believe that Alex really wants to “fight the whole town” like he did repeatedly in Africa, and enjoys sexual dancing with his male co-stars–including taking their clothes off and licking their bodies? This is the real Alex? Yes, if Rubin is correct, then it is.

    • Jennifer says:

      Not true. The director of Disconnect mentioned that peoples’ true personalities come out when they’re drunk and he said AS is a great guy when drunk.

      • Maureen says:

        @ Jennifer

        One the one hand you’re saying that Rubin has seen “the real Alex” when Alex was drunk. On the other hand, others say Alex never shows his “real” self when drunk in the States–only in Sweden. So which one is it? Can’t have it both ways.

    • Maureen says:

      Right. Screaming and calling total strangers “c*nts” is totally good fun and not the actions of an angry drunk who picks fights. His drunken behavior with the photog while out with Kate Bosworth was all “great fun”. His GK co-stars eyewitness accounts of Alex “trying to fight the whole town” was just “great fun” and NOT a sign of a man with a drinking problem.

      Also, please tell me when ANY actors and directors said negative things about each other while promoting a movie.

      When promoting movies, everyone thinks everyone is “awesome”, “amazing”, “extraordinary”, “brilliant”, and “great fun”. They’re all “super tight”, and everyone is “one of my best friends”. Srsly, you guys.

      • jen says:

        He was calling his friend in the stands a c**t, not some stranger. Notice how he was calling him by name and everyone around was laughing?

        The incident with the paparazzi was because the guy had been following him and harassing him all day.

        And the “trying to fight the whole town” thing was because some locals started a fight.

        And the director of Disconnect, he is best friends with Alex, they were just out together partying in Copenhagen a couple weeks ago.

        But please, continue, you sound incredibly frigid. A drink would probably do you good.

      • Maureen says:

        @ Jen

        That actually made me laugh. I’m the only one in this conversation who has actually critiqued his behavior and backed it up with solid evidence…but I’m not capable of critical thinking. [EDIT: Oh, and name calling, too! Nice.]

        Sounds like your defense of Alex just ran out of steam. And that’s okay. I’m not trying to made anyone feel bad or make anyone think badly of Alex. I just have a huge problem with a person behaving as he does and gets defended by women as being “cute”. Like I said, you’d run from the room if any other man acted like that in front of you.

      • jen says:

        Uh, no I wouldn’t, considering me and my boyfriend (both Scandinavian heritage) enjoy having a good time, and yeah, sometimes there’s cursing and naked dancing involved. *GASP*

      • Maureen says:

        Oh, okay, I get it now. Your hardcore defense of Alex is because he’s just like you. So when I criticized Alex you immediately took it as a criticism of you as well. Yeah, that’s called projection. I get it now.

      • jen says:

        Or I took your comments as being from someone who has no idea what fun is like.

      • claire says:

        Nothing that you’re describing is happening in those tones, at all, in those videos.

      • cr says:

        Does he often drink too much? Yes.
        But the attempted fight with the paps at Coachella in 2010 was when they provoked him. He’s been drunk at Coachella before and after 2010 with no fights.
        The fight during the GK filming was when he was provoked.
        And per multiple interviews with GK people, he was pretty reclusive during most of the filming:

        “What about Alex? He is usually quite a joker too.

        Alex was pretty reclusive as well, but always the consummate professional. He was busy with his dialect coach trying to perfect his English and his southern accent. You have to remember these guys are not accustomed to spending that much time so far away from home and not being able to go home. By the end, pretty much everyone was reclusive except for the actual Marines. ”

        http://www.generationkillinsider.com/interviews.htm#551913864

        http://skarsgardnews.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/MensJournal_006.jpg

        Does he get drunk a lot? Oh yes, let’s say I’m glad I’m not his liver.

        But the violent drunk occasions are few and far between.

      • Devon says:

        I’m not sure where you’re from but at least here in the UK, lots of people call their friends cunts. I think I read an Australian saying, “I call my mates cunts and cunts mates.” Coming from North America, cunt was a BAD word but in Europe, it’s all meh.

      • Louminary says:

        Wow Maureen,
        how many messages are you going to post bad-mouthing this guy?!
        I think you just do not get football (soccer to you) and its fandom. This happens all over Europe, South America, etc, etc. It’s A LAUGH for god sakes. It’s a laugh, its culture, its history, it’s getting drunk and silly at matches because you love and will always love a losing team. So you drink, you chant, and you have the most fun you can have when you team is second Div!!

        Im Irish, so obviously I see this a lot. Do not ever visit my country if you get so ridiculously upset about this sort of thing. You will not enjoy yourself, and the Irish will constantly mock your total lack of a sense of humour!

      • Trudy says:

        This is typical football (soccer) banter. You don’t have to be drunk to call someone a cunt. They have much worse chants than that, maybe you need to watch a few youtube clips to see how they act. Its not like he was trying to cause a riot. He was having fun and enjoying himself. That you want to make such a big deal over this fun clip is actually silly.

    • Milo says:

      Uh, that would be the first account of that I’ve heard. To the contrary, most have nothing but positive things to say about him, drunk OR sober.

      • Maureen says:

        Well, this is about him being DRUNK. Sober, he is a charming and wonderful person, but all appearances.

    • lori says:

      @Maureen…..I’ve watched both videos a couple of times and he seems harmless enough to me….where are you getting your “fight the whole town” information from?

    • Andrea says:

      @Maureen I get what you saying if this was let’s say Ben Affleck, Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp the reaction would have been different and it won’t be hilarious or cute at all…

      • Tiffany27 says:

        LBR. This is only cute because it’s Askars. That viking diq got y’all hypnotized lmao!! If this was any other dude we would think he was a douche.

      • jen says:

        If Ben Affleck was drunk trying to get people hyped at a Red Sox game I’d applaud him (but sadly no one does that in boring American baseball).

        But Ben Affleck has also been to rehab, so….

      • lori says:

        Maybe its a cultural difference? Where I come from in Canada it’s not strange to see dudes acting like this at hockey games and nobody cares. And believe me they aren’t hot vikings. They are more likely bearded fat guys in flannel jackets and they are still harmless and funny. As too the little sexy dancing — that’s pretty tame by most drunken standards!

      • Devon says:

        @lori

        Maureen would never want to head down to a hockey game EVER! I’ve been to games in Montreal and Vancouver and they get rowdy! What Alex did was nothing compared to the festivities that happen on St Catherine’s St after a Habs game!

  30. Miss Grey says:

    I think because he is so tall and handsome maybe we are cutting him some slack. But lets think of it this way. If we were in the stands and it was any other person acting like this would we think it’s as funny or wish he’d sit the fak down?

    and I loves ASKARS but my disdain for drunks is equally big =/

    • Maureen says:

      I said exactly the same thing twice. If any other man acted the way we’ve seen and heard of him acting when drunk, the Alex fangirls would run out of the room.

    • Claudia says:

      I’d think it’s funny. I’m Latin, we get rowdy. I also come from a family of soccer fanatics, so I get where this passion is coming from. It’s fun! It’s lively! I’ve been to soccer games around the world and it’s actually fun when people do this, provided it’s not during pivotal moments in the game. I’d say your team being down 3 goals is not a pivotal moment in the game so my reaction would be… alright, let’s chant!

      Anyone going to Brazil next year for the World Cup? 😀

      • Spooks says:

        Oh God, I wish I could, I so wish I could. But Brazil is waay to far. And then Russia and Qatar. I know it’s selfish, but I wish it could be somewhere close, like Italy or Germany.

    • claire says:

      No, I’d be laughing along because I’m not reading more into this than there is. It’s downright bizarre how negative some of you are trying to spin this. It’s just the usual fun being had at a sports game. FFS.

      I’m trying to figure out if this is real life that someone is describing friends ribbing each other and leading chants at a game as inciting fights with strangers. Craziness.

    • LAK says:

      I’ve attended lots of sporting events for Hockey, Rugby and football. This is pretty standard. Heck we even have streakers. And it is always funny.

      And usually the person doing it is not Alex handsome.

      • bob says:

        I was so disappointed we didn’t have a single streaker at the Olympics, that would have made it.

  31. Yawn says:

    Dread to think when he has kids, takes then to footie and his kids have to watch him rant swear, get drunk , party hard take snus
    Hope he doesn’t produce , who wants another celeb kid sponger, spoilt, snus lover, party lover druken offspring added to the Hollywood population

    • LAK says:

      As opposed to the billion soccer fans worldwide who act exactly the same way and take their kids to the matches and those kids aren’t traumatised at all….

      He may be a celebrity fan, but his behaviour pretty normal for these games and entire crowd is chanting, swearing and laughing with him. Yet to see any traumatised kids in attendance.

      I hate to think what you’d say if he had stripped and run across the pitch – a grand football [and any sport played in Europe] tradition loved by the crowd.

      • Just me says:

        you’re right it’s the football fan’s behaviour but it’s not normal, it’s not cute, it’s vulgar and dumb.

    • lori says:

      I think Yawn is Maureen.

      • Kitty says:

        I think you’re right and I also think that she is Trueblade/ Merrick/ Keiko that has been chased off every single Askars fan forum.

        I think Alex was great cheerleader and was having fun with his friends and fans in the stands.

      • Maureen says:

        Don’t even try it.

      • TinyTurtle says:

        I think Lori and Kitty are right

  32. Camille (TheOriginal) says:

    Hilarious! Yep, still love him :).

  33. Dopey says:

    Awww bless. Eric Alex is sexy but drunken Alex is best (even if he looks like my dad).

  34. Jennifer12 says:

    OMG, this man is 50,000 kinds of sexy. I’m married, but I kind of want a pass for Alex and his freak flag….

  35. cc says:

    he loves to get drunk – ALOT

  36. TinyTurtle says:

    There is A LOT of drinking over in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

    My husband is danish and said the the swedes come to Copenhagen for the cheap beer, fall in the canals and drown. (which actually happens every summer)

    The way the 3 countries slag each other is hilarious.

    This is common behavior at football matches, and he looked pretty tame actually.

    Jen’s translation was spot on.
    He was yelling at his friend in the stands, this was all in fun. there was nothing rage like about it.