If you’ve ever fantasized about seeing a sweat-soaked, shirtless Alexander Skarsgård vigorously dancing in tight pants at night in front of a flaming tree, well, the Rolling Stones are here to make your dreams come true.
The band dropped the video for the Foreign Tongues single “Mr. Charm” on Thursday (Oct. 1) and it is a feast for the eyes and senses. The Henry Scholfield-directed clip has a pretty simple premise: Skarsgård shows up to sleepy Palmdale, Calif. with his Blue Steel gaze to charm the locals and hoof his way through town.
The scene opens at an old gas station, where the Pillion actor struts up in his red cowboy boots, tight black jeans, chest full of silver necklaces and fringed buckskin jacket (but, as noted above, no shirt), strikes a pose, checks his ‘fit in the mirror and then slinks around making everyone fall in love with him.
The lyrics to the classic Stones rocker say it all: “I could show you places that you have never seen/ And fill your mind with images of tantalizing dreams/ And caves full of crystals shot through with pinks and greens/ And no man’s land in the Darkest Days of 1916/ Call me Mr. Charm, Mr. Charm, Mr. Charm/ Call me Mr. Charm, Mr. Charm, Mr. Charm,” Mick Jagger sings.
For the record, mid-way through, Skarsgård does away with pretenses and loses the shirt for a seductive, oiled-up bed dance that still fails to impress the one person in town seemingly immune to his charms, nonplussed model Sara Sampaio.
“Mr. Charm” is the latest single from the Stones’ Foreign Tongues album, which debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 in July. Previous videos from the album have also featured some Hollywood stars, including Anya Taylor-Joy and Charles Melton in “Jealous Lover” and Odessa A’Zion in “In the Stars.”
Watch the “Mr. Charm” video below.
