Alexander Skarsgård has played some memorable roles over the course of his career, from brooding, charismatic vampire Eric Northman in True Blood to the titular character in The Legend of Tarzan. In Succession, he plays an erratic but brilliant tech billionaire, Lukas Matsson. Prior to attending the 2023 Met Gala, Skarsgård talked with Vanity Fair about how the barefoot plane scene came about, noting that “it wasn’t really planned.”
In “Living+,” the sixth episode of Succession’s final season, Skarsgård’s Matsson has a clandestine meeting with Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook). His private jet is parked on the tarmac beside hers, and when she refuses to meet him on his plane, he decides to head across the way to her plane. He makes the walk between planes barefoot, a subtle detail but one that is so perfectly fitting for his character.
