Alexander Skarsgard as Eric Northman in True Blood. Photo / Supplied
Alexander Skarsgard quit acting when he was a boy because he didn't want to become famous.
The True Blood star - the son of actor Stellan Skarsgard and his first wife My - started his career aged just seven but called time on his screen roles when he was 13
when he started getting media attention, because he "just wanted to be a kid".
Speaking on US TV show Live with Regis and Kelly, he said: "My father is an actor and I kind of grew up backstage, but I never wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
"I did something and when I was 13 it got some attention and I didn't like being famous. I didn't want to be recognised, I was insecure, I didn't like the attention, I didn't want people knowing who I was; so to hear people on TV, radio talking about who I was and what I like was kind of confusing."
The Swedish actor then joined the Swedish military aged 19, before studying at university in Leeds, North England, before deciding to give acting another try.
