You're listening to Comedy Central, please welcome Alexander Scott god m the man himself, Alexander Scott Sweden sexiest man five years yeah, five times over twenty years ago. Welcome to the Daily Show, Franklings. First, Um, you were on you what you on Stephen Colbert Show yesterday? Weren't you? Yeah? Huh yeah? And Stephen Colbert tested he said today he tested positive for COVID. Yeah, yeah, yeah he did. Um, so we may or may not have made out, Thank
thanks God blurry after the show. Um, no, I yes, I was on on Steven Colbert Show last night, and uh I've tested potton. Mm hmm. You're saying I've tested on negative extremely negative three times today, so I should be fine. But this is probably a good idea. Oh yeah, let we make this a very awkward first date. This is ah, this is my first time being in this situation. Yeah, this is not This is like Putin's table when you talk to people. That's what this is. Yeah, let's figure
off what we're doing, what we can do. We can We've got basically as intimidated as his advisor. But this is like long range cat. Welcome to the show. Thank you, for this is my first socially distanced interview. I like this, this is you know, we got the vibe going on. Congratulations on the movie. I like, first of all, I
love Vikings. I love No, really, I grew up loving Vikings, just like the mythology, like the you know, the dragons of stories that everything, because you know you'll you'll you'll you'll watch stories or you'll read stories as a kid, right, but Viking stories always seems like it was like the best combination of everything. And you took what ten years to get this movie going? Pretty much? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, I feel like it's pretty It's like your herit said,
you are like a Viking essentially. Well, I was born in Sweden and from and I'm from a Sweden family, and my last name scar Scar actually means scar as a Viking name, goard means farm and it's a allegedly a place in on one of the islands outside of Sweden, So you're Viking. Who knows it was a thousand years ago, but according to my grandfather where direct descendants of scar Let me say something, if I have any name, if like my law name was Trevor Giant Slayer, I'd be like, yo,
I slay giants, I'm related to people's slaves. Just just claim it. So so let's talk about the film a little bit. Man, It's I was actually it's funny. I was in the movie. I was watching everything everywhere all at once, and that's when I saw the first trailer for your film, and it was epic, Like, I mean, it's there's this one scene where you grabbed, like someone throws a spear at you, and then like your character grabs a spear throws it Like that was the moment
you know when you watch a trailer. I was like, I'm in, I'm buying, I'm I'm buying my tickets. No, it's one of the most epic looking movies every well we want. That was kind of the reason I wanted to make the movie because I've never seen on a big epic Viking movie that took on the mythology seriously or really went in deep into the mythology and where you could experience on the fantastical world, the mythology the spirits through the eyes of someone a thousand years ago.
So that was kind of the goal in starting. You've done it, man, it looks amazing. You look amazing in it. I mean, you know, like this take is getting better and better. Actually, if uh, if Steven didn't have COVID, we would probably be making out as well. Thank you so much for being on the show. Thank you for being thank you for being negative and being so populitive and joining Star has got everybody. Watch The Daily Show weeknights and eleven t Central on Comedy Central. In stream
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