When Elizabeth Debicki arrived on set for  Wicker,  the first thing she saw was Alexander Skarsgård wading through water - full-frontal. But it wasn't Skarsgård in the flesh; he was  stark naked as wicker. 

 I turned the corner, and I was like,  Hi, Alex!' and I went bright red because my brain couldn't compute what it was seeing,  Debicki tells Variety, sitting alongside Skarsgård and their co-star Olivia Colman in a hotel suite at the Chateau Marmont in L.A.  I was just like  Oh my God! Welcome to Budapest, I guess.' 

From married filmmakers Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer,  Wicker  follows the relationship between an ostracized fisherwoman (Colman) and her fantastical husband (Skarsgård), who is handcrafted for her by the local basket weaver (Peter Dinklage). When the wicker husband proves to be a better man and partner than the rest of the married men in the village, jealousy erupts, and the unlikely couple must figure out how to preserve their simple life amid the chaos and vitriol. (And yes, Straw-Skarsgård is on full display in the Black Bear film, now playing in theaters.)

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While Debicki needed a moment to grapple with the sight of a naked wicker man, Colman's reaction mirrored her character falling in love at first sight.

 It was amazing because we'd all been looking at images for 18 months or so, and then to see it in the flesh, it was amazing,  Colman said.  That [feeling] of,  Oh my god, it's going to work!'

The Oscar winner was the first to see Skarsgård in his full wicker suit and prosthetic makeup. The prototype had been sculpted after Skarsgård's features, but when the Weta Workshop artists tried it on someone else in New Zealand, it almost worked, but not quite.

 If it doesn't quite work, it looks like a horror film because it looks like you cut someone's face off and glued it onto your own, and that wasn't quite the tone we wanted to go for here,  Skarsgård explains.  So, it was a lot of anticipation and excitement and a lot of nerves because it was like,  Oh shit! If it doesn't work, then we're kind of screwed. 

Thankfully, Colman's exub
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