Alexander Skarsgard was on Jimmy Fallon last night, and he was awesome. The last time I saw him interviewed was on Regis & Kelly and he seemed kind of shy and reserved. Alex spoke in his Swedish accent for a little while instead of the practiced tones he uses as Eric on True Blood. It was really sexy. He told an awesome story about how his family will take his 82 year-old wheelchair-bound grandmother out for lunch and drinks every day at 1:00. You can see that above.

Alex is promoting Straw Dogs, and he’s also on the cover of Men’s Journal looking tortured and sporting some really terrible mushroom hair. Who thought it was a good idea to style his hair like that? He still looks hot though. In the interview, the 35 year-old jokes that he lost his virginity in 2008, and also says that he thinks every day about his five year winning streak as the sexiest man in Sweden. He’s funny and self deprecating, and I can’t help but love him more in every interview. Here’s more:

It’s hard be the star of a sexed-up series like True Blood and not be asked about your own sex life.

And yet, when Men’s Journal quizzes Alexander Skarsgard about when he lost his virginity, the October cover boy deadpans: “That was 2008, I think. Best eight seconds of my life.”

Though he’s been named Sweden’s Sexiest Man five times running, the 35-year-old doesn’t take the title too seriously. “Every single day, I wake up and look in the mirror and think, ‘Five times, mother–ker. Five times.'”

All kidding aside, the Straw Dogs star says he hopes to one day be recognized for his talents — and not just his model good looks.

“You tend to get a lot of offers that are, like, the hot guy,” Skarsgard tells Men’s Journal. “And those parts aren’t very fun. I hope there’s something more to me than my pecs.”

[From US Magazine]

So if Straw Dogs is out this weekend, why haven’t we seen premiere photos yet? A lot of us are looking forward to the awkward embrace that’s probably going to happen on the red carpet between Alex and his co-star and ex girlfriend, Kate Bosworth. (He seems like the hugging type.) She’s moved on by now, of course, but that seems like a ploy to make Alex jealous. Is she going to bring her new piece to the premiere? That would be a transparent move.

Here’s Alex getting out of a car at the Toronto Film Festival on 9/10/11.

Men’s Journal photos via ONTD. Other photo credit: WENN

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