It’s a Skarsgård takeover at Studio 8H.
Alexander Skarsgård made his “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut this weekend on the 1,000th episode of the NBC series and was joined his father Stellan Skarsgård for two sketches.
In the first, which mocked Stellan’s Oscar-nominated movie “Sentimental Value,” Alexander, 49, and Chloe Fineman play Swedish siblings grieving their ailing father, who turns out to be played by Stellan, 74.
As the brother-sister duo go to the bathroom to say goodbye to their dad, Stellan reveals himself in the tub and shares a big family secret.
“Hello my children. I want to apologize to you,” Stellan says. “I become a stone around your necks.”
“All these years you’ve hated me or flinging your mother off the dock. But the truth is, she flung herself,” Stellan tells a shocked Alexander and Fineman, 37. “I wanted to protect you from the truth.”
The “Andor” actor explains that the mom killed herself because she “just didn’t like” their kids, who are in disbelief over his confession.
“But now it’s time to drown myself in this tub, so I will no longer have to smell the stench of a family,” Stellan says, asking the kids to hold his hand as he goes underwater.
But Stellan then ruins the take by revealing he’s wearing an Incredible Hulk prop glove and yelling, “Prank!”
In the second sketch called “Immigrant Dad Show,” Stellan shows up again as Alexander’s father.
But this time, Alexander shares a story at a local neighborhood chat about the time he and his dad once accidentally touched kneecaps.
“Tell no one of this,” Alexander said he was told at the time.
Stellan then suddenly shows up and tells Alexander, “I told you to tell no one of this!”
As Alexander apologizes, Stellan yells, “The shame is yours! Live with it.”
Stellan was recently nominated for his first Academy Award for playing a father who reunites with his estranged daughters in “Sentimental Value.”
“My wife’s a little teary,” Stellan told The Wrap last month after his Oscar nom. “And my youngest son just shouted, ‘Congratulations, Dad.’ So I got support of my family.”
Alexander, who was in Oscar contention for his role as a biker in a BDSM relationship with a young man in “Pillion,” had a hilarious reaction to his dad’s nomination.
“I felt like I could take that motherfucker down… Life was f—ing great,” the “Big Little Lies” actor said at Sundance Film Festival last week. “I was riding high.”
“I didn’t win a British Independent Film Awards. I didn’t win a Gotham. I wasn’t nominated for anything else. Dad was just nominated for an Oscar,” Alexander continued with a smile. “So my self esteem’s has been on the bottom. I started feeling like, what’s the point if you’re not going to be nominated and win awards?”
