Alexander Skarsgård is having one of those stretches where the industry conversation keeps circling back to him. Wicker just opened in theaters to a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score and a genuinely viral run of discourse about his performance opposite Olivia Colman, and it’s the kind of left-field swing that tends to send audiences back through an actor’s catalog. Yet the Skarsgård title actually climbing the charts this week isn’t the new one. It’s the film that was supposed to be his big mainstream breakthrough four years ago and instead became one of the decade’s more frustrating box office stories.

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