Brad 'Iceman' Colbert He grew up with Gustaf, Sam, Bill, Eija, and Valter, and two half-brothers from his fathers second wife, Megan Everett. By direct order of the battalion commander himself. His satisfaction seems deeper and quieter, as if hes elated to have been involved in something highly rewarding. Thanks to the runaway popularity of "Generation Kill," the Marines got something else they hadn't bargained for -- a measure of celebrity and recognition that continues to follow them, to varying extents, a decade later. For his efforts during the Iraq War, Colbert received a combat meritorious promotion to Staff Sergeant and went on to serve two years with the Royal Marine Commandos as part of an exchange program. "I was excited, because I wanted to be able to share my experiences with the world, and I had a vehicle to do that. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert : She doesn't deserve you, man. he was in the SkJakt unit that dealt with anti-sabotage and anti-terrorism in the Stockholm archipelago, for 18 months leaving in 1996. : : You should never have gotten married. Lets feed the ankle-biters. We throw several bright yellow humrat packs out the window. Colbert retired from the Marine Corps as a master sergeant on October 24, 2016.[7]. (. (Photo courtesy Brad Colbert) Chance. : : Skarsgard is the son of Stellan Skarsgard and My Skarsgard. (. He grew up with Gustaf, Sam, Bill, Eija, and Valter, and two half-brothers from his fathers second wife, Megan Everett. Skarsgard is a football fan who supports Hammarby Fotboll, a club based in Stockholm. Perfect shitting opportunity. Were going into the great unknown, he says. He has also starred alongside Brit Marling and Elliot Page in Zal Batmanglijs 2013 film The East. Skarsgard is 46 years old. Brad "Iceman" Colbert demos a flame thrower. Cunning Linguist : Meesh is an overweight, nineteen-year old Kuwaiti who wears a Grateful Dead shirt underneath his chemical-and-biological-weapons protection, is a serious dope . Support Marinesthe POGs so often belittled by Colbert and othersjump out under fire, attach chains to the trapped Humvee and yank it out. Three of his brothers Bill, Valter, and Gustaf are actors. He crawls under the Humvee and spends several hours chipping away at the three-inch layer of tar and sand clinging to it from the sabka field. 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Sgt Brad "Iceman" Colbert: Yes, Sergeant Major. (. Josh Ray Person He laughs as he describes walking through Prague with his wife five years ago and getting stopped by four Marines on leave who immediately started calling him "Godfather. Sgt. Alexander Skarsgard is best known for his portrayal of Brad "Iceman" Colbert in the 2008 miniseries Generation Kill. Skarsgard is a renowned Swedish actor. He is best known for television roles such as Eric Northman in True Blood, Brad "Iceman" Colbert in Generation Kill, Perry Wright in Big Little Lies, and Randall Flagg in The Stand. Skarsgard gained fame in the US film comedy Zoolander and then played Marine Brad Colbert in the miniseries Generation Kill. : He played the role of Eric Northman a vampire, slightly over one thousand years old, and is first introduced in the first novel, Dead Until Dark, and appears in all subsequent novels. "War is stupid. Alexander Skarsgrd (Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgrd) is a Swedish actor best known for his role as Brad Iceman Colbert in the miniseries Generation Kill (2008). As captured by Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright in a series of articles that would later spawn a book, "Generation Kill," and an HBO miniseries of the same name, the Marines of Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, find themselves at the front lines of the invasion, improvising ways to fight in unfamiliar terrain and navigating the moral quandaries of combat, under the leadership of junior officers they don't always understand or trust and enlisted leaders seemingly fixated on enforcing the ubiquitous Marine Corps "grooming standard.". When he sees them now, hes prone to uninhibited displays of sentimentality. Mortars explode so close we feel the overpressure punching down on the Humvee. During the War in Afghanistan, he was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for valor for his role in taking out an enemy missile battery. He then had a lead role in the Swedish television production Hunden som log. : Both the book and the show end with a frank discussion between Ferrando and Wright in which the reporter asks him about his seeming over-aggressiveness to send Marines into the fray, and his decision to keep an officer in his command who seemed to have become erratic and violent in the face of combat. Skarsgard considered pursuing an architecture career but chose acting instead. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert at Fort Benning. He assured the leaders that the conversations were not a sign of dissension in the ranks, but rather a "ground-eye view of warfare. HBO cast him as Sergeant Brad 'Iceman' Colbert in David Simon and Ed Burns' 2008 Iraq mini-series "Generation Kill" as well as the ancient Viking vampire sheriff and bar owner Eric Northman. Oh my god, he wants to be a ballerina? Brad 'Iceman' Colbert : If they'd stick around and manned those we'd have been dead before we've even saw. He grew up in an ultramodern 1970s house designed by his father, an architect. Details File Size: 5110KB Duration: 4.100 sec Dimensions: 498x305 Created: 3/11/2020, 3:14:06 PM Sound Design: Andrew Olson We're out here, 40 klicks in enemy lines, and this man of God here, he's a fuckin' POG. You know the rule., One of the cardinal rules of Colberts Humvee is that no one is permitted to make any references to country music. He was born on August 25, 1976, in Stockholm, Sweden. "It was raw and real; it showed the confusion. Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert He is also known for his platoon's role in and perception . The Air Force and Space Force still don't have a sense of how much damage has been caused to the environment on Haleakala. For him, it's been a springboard into a fitness modeling and acting career and a host of other military-related projects. Previously, he was in a relationship with Alexa Chung from 2015 to 2017, Kate Bosworth from 2009 2011, and Evan Rachel Wood (2009 2010). In the end, Wright concludes Ferrando was "vindicated," as Mattis' choice of unit to prosecute the fight. "What I ask my Marines to do is execute commander's intent. "It's like listening to yourself on the answering machine; you sound like an idiot," he said of seeing his conversations and remarks reproduced. He starred in a variety of Swedish productions and rose to fame in his homeland, but he wanted to expand his horizons by working in other countries. Sgt. Bill Skarsgard is a 32 years old Swedish actor, producer, director, writer, voice actor, and model. In the Iraq War, his platoon, the 2nd Platoon of Bravo Company of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion led by Lieutenant Nathaniel Fick, was often at the spearhead of the initial invasion, with his team, of which he was team leader, often on point. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert Can I have one final moment enjoying the fruits of civilisation? While his brother Marines cavort and laugh around him, Colbert says, I would never socialize with any of these people if we werent in the Marines. (. The bleeding, the corpsman believes, is a result of dehydration. Cpl. That was pretty fucking ninja. Sgt. I still have problems inside.". He makes clownish faces at Colbert, trying to make him laugh. Jammed!, My Mark-19 is down! Colbert screams on the radio. Im not so idealistic that I subscribe to good versus evil. We see Brad Colbert at various stages of the team effort that goes into making, decorating, and adorning a paddle for Adam Sorensen as a going away gift for his move to Utah. I thought he had no friendshe was such a loner, Espera says. : Brad is an advisor on the film and was Adam's MSgt. Also, he has starred in Angels and Demons, David Finchers thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Dune, and Mamma Mia! 233), Colbert is excessively cheerful this morning. It showed it in a very raw way from a perspective that wasn't from the top down, it was from the bottom up. (. As the lead vehicle of the platoon, Colberts is the only one with doors, a roof and light armor. That was what I enjoyed the most out of the entire thing.". He was nominated to enter a two-year exchange program with the British Royal Marines, with whom he is now serving. You know, Poke, guys in black pyjamas did alreight in Vietnam, too. Brad Colbert (born July 25, 1974) is a former active duty United States Marine, whose platoon's role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was featured in a series of articles in Rolling Stone by Evan Wright. They did not paint things [subtly] in that black-and-white TV world. Ferrando gets an A-plus, I don't give a s--- what anybody says. Soon, more mothers are handing him their babies, perhaps thinking hes a doctor. Further, he stars in the Star Wars prequel series Andor in 2022. This interview is with Retired USMC Master Sergeant Brad \"Ice Man\" Colbert. Where other Marines speak of the special bonds of kinship between them, the mystical brotherhood formed in the crucible of shared hardship, Colbert shuns the crowd. Then he starred in the television series Big Little Lies (2017-2019) as Perry Wright. He was raised in Stockholm and is the firstborn son of his father. He began his acting career when he was seven but left when he was 13. Fuck it, Colbert says. The American Legion identified limits on attorneys fees related to Camp Lejeune Justice Act claims as one of its top goals. Break out the humrats, he says, referring to humanitarian rations. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert : The point, Lance Corporal: we're supposed to be a recon unit of pure warrior spirit. He later dated actress Kate Bosworth but he is not yet married. (. Josh Ray Person He is best known for his roles as Brad "Iceman" Colbert in the miniseries Generation Kill (2008), Eric Northman in the television series True Blood (2008-2014), and Perry Wright in the television series Big Little Lies (2017-2019). Josh Ray Person : Dude. 22-23), Colbert sits upright in his Ranger grave, filling his rifle magazines with bullets, peering out at the opaqueness of the desertthe dusty winds blowing past the cammie netsand says, It almost feels like were at the bottom of the ocean., Colberts specialty within the platoon is deep-sea diving.Hes trained to lead his team through miles of ocean and penetrate coastal defenses. There was shag carpet in a conversation pit. 260), Colbert comes over to help. Menu. For Colbert, the attention that came with his inadvertent starring role was a mixed blessing; for Marines looking for a long-term future in the Corps, conventional wisdom says to "keep off the skyline" or out of the public eye -- particularly as part of a group of foul-mouthed Marines holding forth with complete candor on subjects ranging from their unit leadership to the state of race and class in America. Generation Kill- Character Bio. Skarsgards net worth is $14 Million. They attended the 2007 premiere of the show in Burbank, California, together, and it brought them closer, Person said. Colbert giving a speech in September 2012, Last edited on 20 February 2023, at 14:38, "After Iraq, the Marines of 'Generation Kill' Regret Nothing", "Airborne! The personalities of the Marines were a bit exaggerated for the screen, and he complains, tongue-in-cheek, that the actor who played him onscreen, James Ransone, was a lot more petite than he is. Skarsgard has appeared in numerous movies and tv shows. . Wiry and fair-haired, he makes sarcastic pronouncements in a nasal whine that sounds like comedian David Spade. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert Several girls, maybe eight or nine, run toward us. Reyes comes across as a mixture of Bruce Lee and zen master on screen, and he has a meditative way of speaking that can contrast startlingly with his frank discussion of war. At least one man from Bravo company has contended with serious mental illness since the deployment, and several have had grave brushes with the law. In the next breath, though, he admitted he and Ransone had very similar personalities and that the actor portrayed him pretty well. Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgrd, was born 25 August 1976 & is a Swedish actor. He breathes deeply, as if struggling to put his emotions aside. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert : Then again the world wouldn't have to deal with the prospect of you returning to your cretinous, daughter fucking, trailer park, red state shithole, and producing mutant, whiskey tango, scrotum faced, buck . Theyre one of those couples that likes to takes pictures of themselves doing all the fun things they do and hang them up all over their goddamn house. He instructs the mother with the bleeding baby to sit by the road, and summons a corpsman over.