Said Skarsgård of his own reverence for the show, “The cast is incredible, Jean Marc Vallée is an amazing filmmaker, the writing was very good itself. And it’s at HBO. I worked there for a couple of years, and it’s a good home for a project like this. So I was excited about it but obviously, you never know what’s gonna hit the zeitgeist or not. If people are going to embrace it or not. … You never really know.”