Alexander Skarsgard: Why I Wore Drag To The Premiere Of "Diary Of A Teenage Girl"
Alexander Skarsgard turned heads at the recent premiere of The Diary of A Teenage Girl, when he showed up on the red carpet in full drag.
And in a chat with BuzzFeed, the gorgeous True Blood star revealed what inspired his walk on the wild side.
We shot the movie in San Francisco. Mari [Heller], the director, is from San Francisco, and she wanted to do a big screening for friends and family who shot the movie there; it takes place in San Francisco. We had a bunch of drag queen on the crew. Our first AD was Cousin Wonderlette; the casting director for the extras was Lady Bear, who is a legendary drag queen in San Francisco; and we had Peaches Christ.
We had a small group and we all became really close, and you know, dear friends of mine. And Mari wanted them to host the screening at the Castro and do a number from The Rocky Horror Picture Show before and do a big fun drag queen after-party.
And I just felt, I asked... I didn’t want to be excluded from the fun. So I asked if there was any way I could come in drag, and they were nice enough to say yes.
Skarsgard said his drag inspiration was Farrah Fawcett. "I said I want something glamorous ...and they went for it. They made this dress, a wig, and fake tits with really nice nipples, and high-heeled shoes. The whole thing."
He also explained he's now part of a drag family.
Mercedez Munro was the drag queen who did all my makeup, and at the after-party the drag queens came up and said, ‘Oh, have you met my mother, have you met my daughter?’ The drag queens said that while introducing people.
I didn’t quite understand what that meant, but then Mercedez told me, ‘I am now your mother.’ Because whoever does your drag makeup the first time becomes your mother. So I now have a drag queen mother.
When Skarsgard revealed his drag name was Lady Libido Lushbody, BuzzFeed responded, "That's a lot of name."
Alexander deadpanned, "I'm a lot of woman."
We can see that.
