00:00We've freed the nipples. It's time to free the toes.
00:02Have we freed the nipples?
00:04In the movie we did.
00:05The wicker nipples.
00:06Yes, wicker nipples. Whipples.
00:07Set them free.
00:08Hi, I'm Olivia Colman.
00:10And I'm Alexander Skarsgård.
00:12This is Off the Cuff.
00:15Round one, icebreakers.
00:17What's the first thing that crossed your mind this morning?
00:21Where am I?
00:22Oh, that's quite sad.
00:24We've been traveling a lot lately.
00:25If you could be on any reality show, what would it be?
00:31Ooh, traitors.
00:32But also, I don't want to be on it.
00:34Do you know what I mean?
00:35I mainly want to do the game.
00:37I only watch Fuckboy Island.
00:39Is that a thing?
00:40That's a reality show.
00:42Fuckboy Island?
00:43Yeah.
00:44No, it's not.
00:45No, it is, right?
00:46Is it?
00:46Yeah.
00:47Is it?
00:47I want to watch that.
00:48It's highbrow.
00:49It sounds it.
00:50I'm the last one, always the last one to the party.
00:52I've got to check out this show.
00:54It's really funny.
00:54We'll do a viewing party.
00:55We'll watch it together.
00:55We'll get together.
00:56We'll watch the little traitors on Fuckboy Island.
00:58Okay.
00:59Yeah.
00:59Oh, with chips.
01:01Yeah.
01:01What's your dream vacation destination?
01:04Greenland.
01:05Never been.
01:06I've been twice, actually.
01:07Many years ago, and it's the most beautiful place I've ever been.
01:10What's your go-to karaoke song?
01:12You know I'm No Good, Amy Winehouse.
01:14Yours?
01:15Same.
01:16No, normally, if we've got to the point of karaoke, I'm so drunk that I'm probably doing
01:20a very bad job.
01:21Do you ever do it sober?
01:22Yes, at home.
01:23Yeah.
01:24On my own.
01:25Would you ever do it in public?
01:26No.
01:27No.
01:27No, no.
01:28What music or podcasts are you currently listening to?
01:31I'm currently listening to a Swedish punk band called Boko Jut.
01:35Boko Jut.
01:36Boko Jut.
01:37I saw them live.
01:38They opened for a band called Viagra Boys, another sweet punk band.
01:43Now, take it in turns saying, he's wicker in these following ways.
01:48Say it as if you're defending your questionable taste.
01:51He's wicker.
01:52Is that too aggressive?
01:54No.
01:55You could be defending in an aggressive way.
01:58Say it as if you've just realized something is terribly wrong.
02:02He's wicker.
02:03Oh, he's wicker.
02:04Say it as if you are sharing irresistible village gossip.
02:09He's wicker.
02:11He's wicker.
02:13For some reason, I go British when I do gossip.
02:16Ooh, he's wicker.
02:18Say it as if you're explaining something painfully obvious.
02:23He's wicker.
02:24He's wicker.
02:26Duh.
02:26He's wicker.
02:27Yeah, that's good.
02:28Good with a duh.
02:29Adding a duh.
02:30Round two.
02:32Personal questions.
02:33What's something that never fails to make you laugh?
02:36Alan Partridge.
02:37Oh, yeah.
02:39Dave.
02:39I liked it.
02:40Was it Dave?
02:41Was it Dave?
02:41Dan.
02:42Dan.
02:42Dan.
02:43My husband bumping his head or falling over or hurting himself.
02:48Oh, nothing better.
02:50Ed in pain.
02:52It's really funny.
02:53What's the first movie you saw that made you want to be an actor?
02:56I saw something called Candle Shoe with Jodie Foster.
03:00I can't even remember what it was about.
03:02Did she have shoes made out of candles?
03:03She could have done.
03:04Can't remember anything about it.
03:06It's a good plot.
03:07Yeah.
03:07But then, ooh, this is...
03:09So, Breaking the Waves, your dad was in.
03:11I watched while I was at drama school.
03:13And I decided, that is the work I want to do.
03:16As a kid, I was watching...
03:17We had a VHS cassette of several VHS cassettes of the Marx Brothers movies that we would watch
03:24every Sunday.
03:25It just looked like they had so much fun.
03:27Yeah.
03:28And that was, like, infectious.
03:30I was like, that looks like a lot of fun.
03:31What is your go-to comfort meal?
03:34Shötbüller.
03:35Swedish meatballs.
03:36Oh, yummy.
03:37That's what that means.
03:38Yeah, shötbüller.
03:39Okay.
03:40Shötbüller.
03:40Shötbüller.
03:41Do you make your own?
03:42Yeah.
03:43But they're not the best.
03:44You can find better meatballs than Alexander Skarsgård's meatball.
03:47They're one step above Ikea, as I would say.
03:50That sounds great.
03:50It's like gravy, mashed potatoes, pickles, and lingonberries.
03:55Okay, yum.
03:56What is one thing that inspired you recently?
03:59It could be something I did or something I said.
04:02Oh, Alexander Skarsgård inspired me most recently.
04:08I was trying to do it the proper way.
04:10Very good.
04:11Skarsgård.
04:12You know what?
04:13See-through shoes.
04:15They inspired you.
04:15Because from a distance, I thought they were sort of shoes, you know, like the sort of golf
04:19shoes with a different...
04:20And then when I got close, I went, oh, they're...
04:22Oh, five little piglets are hiding in there.
04:25Yeah, I loved it.
04:26I thought it would steam up immediately.
04:28I was like, this is a terrible idea.
04:30And maybe it was for other reasons, but they didn't steam up.
04:33I loved it.
04:34It was great.
04:35It was fun.
04:36Toes get hidden away too much.
04:37What's the first album you ever bought?
04:39Please by Petro Boys.
04:41Mine was Too Low for Zero by Elton John.
04:44Two good albums.
04:45Yeah.
04:46Well done, us.
04:47Round three, film questions.
04:49What's something new you learned about yourself from doing wicker?
04:54Well, I had pneumonia while filming it.
04:56And I realised I'm terrible at saying, I might need to see a doctor.
05:02It took me a few days before I went, I was feeling really quite grotty.
05:06But you kept shooting through that, yeah.
05:08Yeah.
05:09I was coughing a lung up every time we stopped.
05:11What about you?
05:12I don't think I learned anything about myself.
05:15Did you already know that you'd be incredibly cool about having prosthetics all day?
05:19Have you done that before?
05:20I have.
05:21So I'm at a place in my life where I feel like I know everything I need to know about
05:25myself.
05:26There's no exploration left to be had.
05:29That's a lovely place to be.
05:31Or tragic.
05:32What's the first film you remember loving?
05:34The first film I saw at a cinema, Star Wars, New Hope.
05:40That was me too.
05:41Was it?
05:41Yeah.
05:42I saw whichever order it came out in, I saw the first one.
05:46Well, it definitely wasn't the first one because that would have been 1977.
05:49But they were huge.
05:51So they kept playing them for years and years, right?
05:53Yeah.
05:53Throughout the early 80s.
05:55Maybe it was Return of the Jedi.
05:56I think Return of the Jedi was like 83, 84.
05:58Is that the one with the Ewoks?
06:00No.
06:01Which wicker basket am I?
06:03Oh.
06:04This one?
06:08Or this one?
06:09I think that one.
06:09Second one.
06:10That one.
06:10Because it's slightly old.
06:12It looks softer as well.
06:14This one looks cheap.
06:15Yeah.
06:16I didn't want to say it.
06:17I ain't cheap.
06:18What surprised you most about working with me?
06:20You're so damn funny.
06:21Yeah, you're crazy.
06:23Round four.
06:24Guess the look.
06:25This look.
06:26Oh.
06:31It's not the golden suit from London Film Festival, is it?
06:36It was.
06:37Okay.
06:39Nice.
06:41Yeah.
06:42Mew, mew.
06:43Mew, mew.
06:45Sleigh.
06:46What was it like?
06:47Terrifying.
06:48I was like a toddler.
06:49I was so high, then I had to sleep for an hour.
06:53This look.
06:56It's the pillion premiere in Berlin.
06:59This is brilliant.
07:01Yeah.
07:02One of my favorite experiences making that film and getting to know Harry and Harry and all
07:09the bikers and that.
07:10It was really special.
07:11And this was the final premiere after a year of traveling together.
07:14And all the bikers who are in the movie are real gay bikers from GBMCC, this gay bike
07:21motorbike club in the UK.
07:22They drove out to Berlin to attend the final premiere.
07:25Just an amazing finale to this year-long press tour.
07:30This look.
07:31Oh, that's a Celine dress from London Film Festival.
07:36Yeah.
07:37It is.
07:38This look.
07:40It's just a tux.
07:42It's not just a tux.
07:43Oh, is it from Cannes with the leather boots?
07:50Oh.
07:53No leather boots there.
07:55Did you forget your trousers?
07:57So it was at the MTV Movie Awards.
08:00And the show year prior to that event, Zac Efron had taken his shirt off.
08:06And I was like, well, then I want to show some skin as well.
08:10But Zac already took his shirt off, so I can't do that.
08:13I'll do something different, but equally sexy.
08:16So then I thought, the Donald Duck look is sexy.
08:20So I went for that instead.
08:23This look.
08:25It was from an Oscars ceremony.
08:27Is it Dior?
08:29Yeah, it's a nice frog.
08:30I didn't win anything that way.
08:31Boo!
08:32This look.
08:35That's Valentino's show in Paris.
08:38Yeah.
08:39That's just a lovely, lovely coat.
08:42I saw it.
08:43I was like, I need to be inside that thing.
08:45Round five.
08:46Lightning round.
08:48Film or theater?
08:50Sit snappy.
08:51Great theater beats a good film, I'd say.
08:53But I'd rather go watch a mediocre film than a mediocre play.
08:57Yeah.
08:58Or a really bad play.
08:59Brilliant.
09:00Comedy or romance?
09:01Depends on how I'm feeling, but comedy.
09:03Dancing Queen or Mamma Mia?
09:05Dancing Queen.
09:05Yeah, I agree.
09:06Original or adaptation?
09:08Again, depends.
09:10Sometimes the original's not very good, the adaptation is better, and vice versa.
09:13Knack-a-brot or sourdough?
09:15Knek-a-brot.
09:16Oh, Knek-a-brot.
09:17Yeah.
09:18Oh, sorry.
09:18It's not Swedish crisps.
09:21Road trip or taking a flight?
09:23Road trip.
09:24Road trip.
09:25Texts or phone calls?
09:27Depends, doesn't it?
09:28It does.
09:29A bad phone call is rough.
09:31Then I'd rather send me a text, come on.
09:33Yeah.
09:33Early morning or late night?
09:35Late night.
09:36Or, it depends.
09:38If it's fun late night, late night.
09:40Well, then you combine it.
09:41It's a late night that bleeds into an early morning, goes into an early morning.
09:44Yeah.
09:45Go back in time or see the future?
09:47Back in time.
09:47Yeah, I agree.
09:48Spring or fall?
09:49Spring.
09:49Fall.
09:50City or countryside?
09:51City.
09:52Oh, I like a little bit of both.
09:54Perfect manners or a wicked sense of humour?
09:56Wicked sense of humour.
09:57Wicked sense of humour.
09:58Left or right?
09:59What does that mean?
10:00Right?
10:01Intro.
10:02And I'm Alexander Skarsgård.
10:04Oh, hi.
10:04I'm Olivia Colman.
10:05This is Off the Cuff.
10:06Oh, we've done it.
10:07We've done it.
10:07We've done them all.
10:08Woo!
10:08Can you imagine you have to do the whole thing again?
10:10Thanks so much.
10:11This has been Off the Cuff.
10:16There's something in there.
10:18Is it buzzing?
10:20It's my lipstick.
10:26Okay, thank you.
10:27Bye-bye.
10:28Bye-bye.
10:28Bye-bye.
10:29Bye-bye.
10:29Bye-bye.
10:29Bye-bye.
10:30Bye-bye.
10:31Bye-bye.
10:32Bye-bye.
10:33Bye-bye.
10:35Bye-bye.
