“Vikings”: A Post-Finale Chat with Gustaf Skarsgård (FLOKI)

[KittyWampus]

Good interview with actor who plays Floki (excerpt below)


“Vikings”: A Post-Finale Chat with Gustaf Skarsgård

http://tv.blog.imdb.net/2014/05/01/vikings-a-post-finale-chat-with-gustaf-skarsgard/

IMDbTV: Yeah, let’s talk about that a little bit… There’s that scene where Floki is discussing with King Horik the possibility of killing Bjorn. Was Floki really just playing King Horik this entire time? Because in a private moment with Helga, he talked about how King Horik understood the dark gods better than Ragnar and that he would have more possibilities with him.

Skarsgård: Floki, he’s going so far and deep into the part. Everything he said, there’s grains in truth in all of it – his slight disappointment with Ragnar, and his kinship with Horik in terms of the gods. But I think he exaggerates all this to play the part, to get close to Horik.

Basically, Floki is method acting his double-agent thing, and he doesn’t let Helga in on it to protect her. What we see, when he tells her that he won’t invite Ragnar to the wedding, he knows that she will go and tell that to her friend Siggy. He knows that King Horik will pick up on this and try to get in closer. So it’s not that he doesn’t trust Helga. But if he knew she could get tortured to tell the truth, it’s better to keep everyone out of it. I think it was just between Ragnar and Floki. They’re the only ones that had known the whole time.

Having said that, I’m not sure that they actually planned to kill and get rid of King Horik, but they definitely planned for Floki to get close to him. I think there is a kinship between Floki and Horik, for sure. The way I see it, the turning point for Floki is when he realized that Horik is actually after Bjorn, to kill Bjorn and get rid of Ragnar. That’s was the turning point, the point beyond return. You don’t f**k with my family, basically

[Inkfreak]

1. Quietly becoming one of the best shows on tv.

Season 3 can't come soon enough!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Yeah, I don't think they planned to massacre Horik's family until the same had

been planned for themselves. It was almost self-defense then.

Horik made a few very bad decisions that poor Ragnar had to bear the brunt of. Ragnar will make a better king, unless that final shot of him brooding all alone on a mountainside means he's gone to a very dark place post-massacre.