The latest Netflix true crime series, Clark, is now available to stream in full – and it’s unlike any other true crime series you’ve seen before.
Starring Bill Skarsgård as the titular Clark Olofsson, it tells the story of his notorious, decades-long career of crime, involving multiple prison breaks and bank robberies, as he left a trail of destruction in his wake.
One thing that sets the series apart is its fantastical style, with the whole series told from Clark’s perspective in a heightened reality, and this is no more apparent than in the show’s opening scene.
In the earliest moments of the series, we follow the camera inside Olofsson’s mother’s womb to find baby Clark inside, with Skarsgård’s face superimposed.
Now, speaking exclusively with RadioTimes.com for a Big RT Interview, Skarsgård has confirmed this scene had been in director Jonas Åkerlund’s mind from the earliest moments of the series’ development.
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Skarsgård said: “If you read any of the stories about Clark there’s all of these factual events, which by themselves are crazy, but then there’s also him retelling them. And he’s very comedic in nature so they become very funny.
“And Jonas is so good at telling it that way and the opening was something that he had in mind very early, before the script was even written.
“He was like, ‘That’s how I open the show, I open with the camera going in to his mom, like through into the womb, and then out, and it’s Clark Olofsson’s first breakout’.”
Well, it’s certainly one way to have your central character make an entrance.
You can read our full review of Clark here, and stay tuned to RadioTimes.com to read the full chat with Bill Skarsgård in his Big RT Interview.
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