Blast from the past: Skarsgard is Gaga's bad romance in "Paparazzi" video

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Pop and fashion icon Lady Gaga not only has a knack for producing chart-topping hits, but also for casting heartthrobs in her bazaar music videos.



One such heartthrob is Swedish babe Alexander Skarsgård, famously known for his role as the brooding Viking vampire Eric Northman in HBO's hit drama True Blood.

Gaga's "Paparazzi," deals with a lot of hot button issues. First and foremost is obviously domestic violence.

No stranger to playing the villian, Skarsgård's character spends a brief moment canoodling with Gaga in bed before plunging her to her death. Towards the end of the video, Gaga reclaims her dominance and enacts vengence upon her abusive boyfriend by poisioning him to death. (Strangely, she seems to like the idea of poisioning people, as she used the same method to assassinate Beyonce's bad lover in her "Telephone" video.)

I'll admit that a lot of what Gaga does everyday often confuses me (she recently banned the sale of ice at her concerts), but in this decision she was spot on.

MTV agrees.

"We have to give Lady Gaga props for always picking unexpected actors as her leading music video men. Of course, everything Lady Gaga does is unexpected, but her quirky casting doesn't so much leave us scratching our heads, as it does us drooling."

Liz, of True-Blood.net, also spotted Joe Manganiello, who stars as the buff werewolf Alcide in the Southern vampire series, in a scene of Spiderman.

Manganiello plays the bully who challenges Peter Parker as Parker is just coming into his Spidey skills.

Check it out.

Where else have you spotted the True Blood cast?