Alexander Skarsgard Forgot Pants at the MTV Movie Awards

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Alexander Skarsgard may be known best for making brooding facial expressions in TV shows like True Blood and flaunting his giant abs in the Tarzan trailer. But at the MTV Movie Awards, which air tonight but actually took place last night, he went for an entirely new look: no-pants.

No-pants, otherwise known as Winnie the Pooh-ing, is a strategy normally embraced by women (what's a dress, really, besides an excuse to avoid pants?), but far less often by men. These men, however, do not appear to include Alexander Skarsgard.

Here is how he showed up to the awards:

Alexander Skarsgard, the gender performance ambiguity hero we never knew we needed.

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