Alexander's interview in The Times out of context "joke" or snobbery?
Here is the article: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/alexander-skarsgard-brains-brawn-and-biceps-8sq7hqtjv
You need to sign up for an account to view it, so I will copy paste a particular point in the interview where he stated:
"He may not sound very Swedish now, but he is. He says the longer he lives in the US, the more Swedish he feels. He has a dark northern European sensibility that contrasts with LA’s sunny style. 'Swedes are a lot like Brits. You might only tell your mum you love her once in your life. In the States, the woman working in the grocery store will be, like, ‘I love you.’'
He likes 'a certain modesty' Swedes have that Americans lack. He tells me that the owner of Ikea drives an old Volvo, while America has 'a presidential candidate living in a gold tower with his name in gold letters, giving interviews from a golden throne'. He laughs: 'It’s the making of a Monty Python sketch.'"
So, let me get this straight. Alexander, who drives a Porsche (or Audi, on occasion), who had a generous Hollywood mansion that cost millions of dollars, says Americans (because we're all the same now) lack modesty. Then he compares one person from Sweden to a man like Donald Trump in order to support his blanket generalization that Americans are ostentatious. Not to mention he is dating (dated?) an English celebrity who embodies the very "American" traits he sneers at, even though he just said Brits are like people from his country.
Anyway, no idea if this was just a badly quoted joke of some kind, but his comment seemed ignorant and careless. It surprised me since he came across as a more observant and thoughtful sort of person in previous interviews. Oh, well!