Alexander Skarsgård to Star in Gothic Horror Film ‘The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands’ from ‘The Northman’ Writer
Alexander Skarsgård (The Northman, “True Blood”) is starring in the Gothic horror film The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands, Deadline reports. Currently in production in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the feature is directed by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (Clara Sola) from a script she co-wrote with Sjón (The Northman, Lamb). Skarsgård plays a British widower in […]
Alexander Skarsgård (The Northman, “True Blood”) is starring in the Gothic horror film The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands, Deadline reports.
Currently in production in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the feature is directed by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (Clara Sola) from a script she co-wrote with Sjón (The Northman, Lamb).
Skarsgård plays a British widower in the 1880s Pacific Northwest who hires a Native American governess, educated in a Christian mission school, to teach his two daughters. While preparing the eldest for an arranged marriage, a force within her begins to awaken, threatening everything she has been taught.
Darla Contois (“Little Bird”), Bronte Carmichael (“Andor”), Lily LaTorre (Run Rabbit Run), Forrest Goodluck (How to Blow Up a Pipeline), and Pernilla August (Star Wars: Episode I-II) round out the cast.
“I feel incredibly lucky to work with a cast who dive into their roles with such generosity, playfulness, and openness. Collaborating with such a talented group of people from all around the world has been a privilege,” said Mesén. “Darla embodies Isabel with visceral emotional depth, and Alexander portrays the father with a truth and volatility that ground the story. I can’t wait for the film to reach audiences!”
“As someone who’s worked with myth and folk stories in novels, songs and screenplays, I was immediately fascinated by Nathalie’s command of bringing to the screen something as difficult as the shifting borders between the inner and outer reality of her film’s protagonist,” offered Sjón, who added “some dark Northern lyricism to Nathalie’s warm Latin American poetry.”
Nima Yousefi (The Apprentice) of Sweden’s Hobab produces alongside Resolve Media in the US, Quiddity Films in the UK, Need Productions in Belgium, and Still Vivid in Iceland.
Due out in May 2026, The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands will be released in Sweden by TriArt. Stay tuned for international distribution news.
