FKA twigs & Bill Skarsgård Listened to a Lot of ABBA To Get into Character | Ask Me Anything | ELLE
FKA twigs and Bill Skarsgård bring undeniable chemistry to their remake of the dark romance ‘The Crow.’ The duo get candid in #AskMeAnything, discussing everything from the strange methods they used to get into character—Bill mimicking crows in Prague—to the music that pumped them up—ABBA, anyone? Watch as FKA twigs reveals her admiration for Lisa Rinna and Bill shares his regret over an item he stole from the ‘It Chapter Two’ set and then gave away (even though Bill insists he doesn’t steal ).
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00:00Take a chance on me.
00:02Yeah, a lot of ABBA.
00:04I cannot.
00:05Hi, I'm Bill Skarsgård.
00:06And I'm FK Twigs.
00:08And today we're going to let Elle...
00:10Ask us anything.
00:12Anything.
00:14What was the strangest thing you did to prepare for The Crow?
00:18The strangest thing I did?
00:20I spent four weeks following crows around Prague,
00:25mimicking their every movement and sounds.
00:29I would walk down, see a school of...
00:33Is that the right word? A school of crows?
00:35And then I would just follow them around.
00:38You know, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.
00:40Stuff like that.
00:41What was the strangest thing you did to prepare for The Crow?
00:44Um, sort of got my nails done.
00:46Got your nails done?
00:49Who is the last person you were starstruck to meet?
00:53Apart from me.
00:56I'd probably say Lisa Rinna.
00:58I actually have a handbag,
01:00and the designer called the handbag the Lisa Rinna.
01:03And so I carry Lisa Rinna with me every single day.
01:06So when I met Lisa Rinna in a restaurant,
01:09I was like, oh my God.
01:12What about you?
01:13I met James Gandolfini once.
01:16I don't think I've ever been as starstruck as meeting him.
01:19It was like a weird situation as well.
01:21You know, I was with someone,
01:22and they were like, oh, let's go to the chateau.
01:24And there's like, my mom's there with some friends.
01:26And it was like, her friend happened to be James Gandolfini.
01:29I sat down at this kind of intimate,
01:31just like having drinks with the great, you know?
01:34And that was incredible.
01:36What's your favourite thing you've ever stolen from set?
01:41Well, first of all, I don't steal.
01:44I never steal anything from set.
01:46I just kind of feel like the journey of the character is memorabilia for me.
01:50And then for some reason, I kind of find it weird
01:53to collect things from characters I've played.
01:55I gave Pennywise's buck teeth to Andy, the director,
02:00on the final wrap on It 2.
02:04And he was like, oh, I took it.
02:06And I was like, oh, maybe I should have kept that.
02:10Because there's something fun about having teeth,
02:12because you can always, you know, put them back in and stuff.
02:15Yeah, I don't think I've taken pretty much anything.
02:18Yeah, I can relate to that.
02:19I am really bad at...
02:21Collecting memorabilia.
02:22Yeah, I have nothing.
02:23My camera phone has been smashed for, like, 18 months.
02:26And I just don't fix it.
02:28I never take pictures.
02:29Where's the most unexpected place you pulled musical inspiration from?
02:34I don't know if it's unexpected,
02:35but I just pull musical inspiration from my life.
02:38Even when we were filming in Prague,
02:40I really got so inspired by the techno scene there
02:44and going to the clubs and seeing people from Prague
02:48party and rave and express themselves.
02:51And now that's something in my music
02:53has really come through in my next album.
02:55I didn't get you to a rave, though, did I?
02:57No raves.
02:58No.
02:59I wasn't raving.
03:00You were invited.
03:04What's the best acting advice you've received from another actor?
03:10My dad would always say this in words that I live by,
03:12which is there's no such thing as overacting.
03:16It's just untrue acting.
03:19Which means that you can go very big,
03:21as big as you want, as long as it's truthful.
03:24So the range can be subtle, it can be giant,
03:27you know, as long as it's truthful in the core.
03:29And I think that that's something that I try to live by.
03:32That's good advice.
03:34What music helped you get into the character of Shelley?
03:38That's a secret.
03:40I feel like, for me, listening to music before I do a film
03:45is really part of the process,
03:47and each character kind of has its own tale and legacy
03:52around the music.
03:54But we were saying earlier that Bill and I had this fun thing
03:57where we would send each other a lot of music
03:59when we were getting ready, because we shared a trailer for Glam.
04:02So we would sit next to each other,
04:04and everyone would think it was silent.
04:06It would almost be awkward for everyone else,
04:07because we'd just be with headphones in.
04:09But between us, we were having secret music wars.
04:13A lot of ABBA.
04:17I'm sorry to spill any secret here, but there's a lot of ABBA
04:20for both Eric and Shelley.
04:23And I think you feel it when you watch the movie,
04:25there's a lot of, you know,
04:27Dick Chanson, me.
04:29I know.
04:34What are you and your brothers the most competitive about?
04:38Apart from the obvious fame, money, power.
04:42What are we?
04:47There's a lot of us, you know.
04:49We're eight kids.
04:51And there's big age gaps.
04:53The wider the age gap is, the less competitive I think you seem to be.
04:57Like for me, growing up, it was my younger sister
04:59who was just a year and a half younger than me.
05:01So we would compete about anything and everything.
05:04I would usually win.
05:06Because I was older.
05:08What's one beauty product you can't live without?
05:12I think sleep.
05:14Great! That's a great answer.
05:17What about you?
05:19A nice cleanser and a moisturizer.
05:23That's kind of all I use.
05:26Describe your nightly skincare routine.
05:29Just bleach.
05:32And detergent.
05:35Just to get the skin to really pop.
05:41What should my nightly routine actually be?
05:44I really love a brand called IS Clinical.
05:47They've got an amazing serum called ProHeal.
05:50There's a completely organic brand that I use called Living Libations.
05:56And it's 100% organic, all natural, amazing oils, essential oils.
06:02It seems like I have some learning to do.
06:05Some notes.
06:06Some notes to take on.
06:07When you had all the tattoos, I'm guessing you were taking all that makeup off.
06:10Was that difficult?
06:11Applying all the tattoos takes forever.
06:13But then taking them off takes forever too.
06:15I had a great team.
06:17Solid people.
06:18Sometimes four or five people just rubbing away.
06:21When I was really tired as well,
06:23I would also join in the fun of getting it off as quickly.
06:27The tattoos were not as bad as the painted on tar blood that's in the movie.
06:32That really gets you.
06:34Who influences your fashion the most?
06:38I think just my friends.
06:40Who or what?
06:41I'll add what in there.
06:43Yeah, I think just my friends.
06:45I'm very lucky just to have a really creative group of amazing people around me.
06:50My assistant Georgia Pendlebury and I, we can send textures sometimes.
06:54Sometimes the references are quite left,
06:57but somehow you can find textures in nature
07:01and then have a fabric that represents that, like a moss,
07:04and then you find an amazing mossy coat.
07:06You have the best fashion.
07:08Oh, thank you.
07:10I concur.
07:11What's one role you auditioned for that you wish you landed?
07:15I'm not ever going to reveal that.
07:19I was supposed to be in Cats the musical.
07:21It just didn't work out, but I regret it,
07:24because it would have been major.
07:26But I made up for it because I had a Cats the musical-themed birthday party that year,
07:30and I made my friends all dress up as cats,
07:32and then we watched the film in a really small theater and all partied.
07:36That's amazing.
07:37As cats.
07:38Crazy.
07:40That's it. That's a wrap.
07:42Mine was rubbish.
07:44Make sure that you watch The Crow in theaters.
07:47We're...
07:48In it.
07:49In it.
07:51In it.