Alexander Skarsgård Stars in Polestar 5’s Campily Electrifying Spy-Inspired Film

Polestar has just dropped its most cinematic flex yet — a sleek, James Bond-flavoured short film starring Alexander Skarsgård and the brand’s all-new electric grand tourer, the Polestar 5. It’s moody, minimalist, and very Scandinavian — a love letter to design, innovation, and the quiet confidence of a brand that knows it’s nailed the brief.

The Polestar 5, born from the 2020 Precept concept, is now fully realised in production form. The film — produced entirely in-house — sets Skarsgård behind the wheel of a car that’s less gadget-laden spy machine and more a futuristic statement of intent. Dressed in Polestar’s signature restraint, the cinematic short swaps explosions for electric power, showing off the 5’s precision engineering and eco-friendly DNA.

Skarsgård, who’s been driving a Polestar 3 since 2024, narrates the piece like a man with a secret. Known from Succession, Big Little Lies, and The Northman, he brings Hollywood cool to Gothenburg steel, declaring with wry satisfaction: “Fantastic. Tomorrow’s not dead yet.”

Above: Polestar 5 with Alexander Skarsgård

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ABOVE: Polestar 5

Underneath the design drama sits serious engineering. The Polestar 5 rides on the bespoke Polestar Performance Architecture (PPA), a bonded aluminium structure offering supercar-level torsional rigidity with less weight than steel. The dual-motor layout — including an in-house developed rear unit — delivers a spine-tingling 650 kW and 1,015 Nm, flinging the car from 0–100 km/h in just 3.2 seconds. An 800 V electrical system ensures quicker charging and higher efficiency, while the chassis uses MagneRide adaptive dampers reading the road 1,000 times per second. It’s as close to telepathy as suspension gets.

But Polestar hasn’t forgotten its green roots. Around 83 % of the aluminium comes from smelters powered by renewable energy, while 13 % is recycled. Inside, the 5 swaps out traditional plastics for Bcomp natural fibre composites woven in Polestar’s signature pattern, saving 40 % in weight and halving fossil-fuel material use. Sustainability here isn’t a checkbox — it’s a design pillar.

The film itself is stripped back, cinematic, and almost sensual in its restraint — Skarsgård prowling through a world of white light and chrome, his Polestar 5 the perfect co-star. There’s no chase, no villain, no tuxedo — just the quiet suggestion that the future of performance doesn’t roar. It hums.

The Polestar 5 is more than a car; it’s the brand’s manifesto in motion — where art, tech, and conscience meet at 260 km/h. And if you squint, you can almost see Skarsgård’s next mission briefing appearing on the head-up display.

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