Brilliant! And I love how un-rehersed he was, just clearly responding in the moment with perfectly reasonable answers to the interviewer's dumb-ass pro-religion questions.

Best response ever to that ever common line of questioning believers pose to non-believers concerning life's mysteries: He doesn't wish to reduce the mystery of it all to something so petty. PURE FUCKING GOLD!!!!!

Nailed it

You’ve got to love this guy...not only is he a great actor, but he says it exactly as it is. The Abrahamic Religions are all relatively modern (in the context of the age of the world), and are confidence tricks which rob humans of critical thought and personal responsibility. Religion, as he says, is in the main a complete accident of birth, depending entirely on location and ethnicity of one’s parents. I take my hat off to Skarsgard for taking this stance on what is one of the most popular TV Chat Shows in Sweden, “Skavlan”. He will find plenty of support anyway, because the Scandinavian countries have amongst the highest proportion of non-believers (atheists/agnostics) per capita, anywhere in the world.

Thank you so much for posting this clip...my admiration for the Nordic countries is well known on this site, they seem to breed a more intelligent class of politician, artiste and celebrity than other parts of the world. I think it must be due to something in the Viking genes.