Alicia Vikander returns to TV with ‘Irma Vep’ 10 years after ‘Royal Novel’ premiere

Ten years have passed since Alicia Vikander burst onto the international stage, thanks to the 2012 Berlinale winner and (almost) Oscar-nominated reformer Queen of Denmark. Actual case.

In those years, the Swedish actor won an Oscar (2015) danish girl), joined a major franchise (2016) Jason Bourne), wear a dusty Angelina Jolie vest for the second (2018) tumb raider Reset), married Magneto/Steve Jobs/Macbeth (Michael Fassbender, 2017) and in early 2021 gave birth to a son.

This year she returns to Cannes with her 1-year-old son. sister vefRemake of Olivier Asayas’ miniseries for A24, his 1996 cult film about a director trying to make a movie (Louis Faylade’s Silent Classic) The vampires). As he admits, it’s a “very meta” project that marks his return to the small screen after excelling in Swedish soap operas.

Talking the hollywood reporter From the British drama of the time. firemark (playing Catherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII, along with Jude Law), Vikander, who now lives with her family in Lisbon, talks about her first visit to Cannes (and her first Haute Couture dress) and explains why that he does it. doesn’t look like him. The frustrated movie star he plays sister vef (For beginners without assistant) and look back fondly on the last 10 years.

Be on the skin sometimes. Do you have a favorite memory?

I think my biggest moment was probably the first one. I may have been to the Berlin Film Festival before, but there’s something going on in Cannes. I still realize that this is a festival where I experience illusion: there is something in the rose and the croissant. I think the first time I went, I had just graduated. real caseAnd we were doing the press there. I was invited to the Valentino Suite and I put on a couture dress and I have never touched a couture dress in my life. That scared me. But it was great.

sister vef This is his first television project in over a decade. What is it like to come back to the small screen after so long?

I’ve wanted to do this format for a long time because I think it’s been tested in recent years by amazing filmmakers and especially in the miniseries format. I like it to have an ending. But you can be with the characters and see how their story unfolds from different angles and perspectives. I’m watching a lot of good TV series right now. A lot of them are fun, so I was hoping the right project would come along.

So how did you come to this?

I met Olivier about six or seven years ago and we formed a natural friendship and saw each other whenever we were in the same city. At one of these lunches he had the idea that he was approached, I believe by A24, about a new version. sister vef. At first I was a little surprised, but then it was very interesting to talk about it. He said: “I would love to visit and feel that I can continue and also find the end of this journey for the film that has been with me for so long.” That’s why we continued to develop it during the pandemic. Most of the people Olivier works with are his friends, and he said he just wanted to have fun and make a movie and shoot something that honored what he loved, and I felt the same way.

Original sister vef We’re talking about a frustrated movie star. You’re not playing a fictionalized version of yourself, are you?

No! I actually found it quite interesting because I’m very different. Obviously we are in a world and I admit many things. But I’m going to work hard and then I want my personal life. I’ve never had an assistant following me around and making coffee. I’ve seen many and my part has always been interested in it. At the same time, [my character] He’s at a crossroads in his life where work was everything to him, and I can relate to that. But he became something of a lone wolf and I was always afraid of that. I still have my closest friends and family back home. Most of the people around me in my personal life are not in the film industry, except my wife of course.

In the original, Maggie Chung plays a character named Maggie Chung. Wasn’t it tempting to call your character Alicia?

No, but I found it very interesting because it was very meta. We talked before Olivier wrote and I thought they would probably comment on me taking on the role of actor, but then my character Mira gets upset because in the series she is doing a remake of the movie where the Chinese actress has already played this one. paper. what [the fictitious director] Rene has done this before in his career.

you mentioned real case early. If you look now, almost 10 years later, how do you see the industry?

I think, if anything, I feel like the industry has gotten smaller, but in a good way. There is a kind of meeting. Even in the beginning, I was sometimes quite confused on set last week because you get very close to people, share experiences and then leave and everyone leaves. It’s a kind of magic that I hope we can capture and that’s what I love about what we do. The same goes for journalists. You know the faces and you talk in another hotel room and you talk about other things. And I like it a lot, I still work with Judy. [Law]And she was in my first English film, Anna Karenina, and 10 years later we meet again and that’s another journey. I think that’s what I like most about him.

Was your career as you expected or wanted?

Definitely not what I expected! I didn’t expect to be here today and I still feel like I’ve been on set recently. Today was such a fun day, and many of us say, “Oh, wow, this is our daily job.” And that’s how I felt working with Olivier. As I said, I now work with people I thought I would never meet again. I think it relates more and more to the people and the connections and the relationships that you’ve built over the years. And that’s what I hope will continue. Olivier was the one who somehow said he just wanted to pass the time.

You launched Vikarious Productions a few years ago and are an executive producer. sister vef. Did the production help you take more control of your acting roles and allow you to choose where you expect to have fun?

I think it was a natural thing. There was a project I was involved in and the directors and producers saw me develop my hunger and let me be a part of it. So it came from a very natural state that I was in in my career.

Are you running anything else now?

Covid has stopped a lot. But yeah, I have about three or four scenarios to develop.

I apologize for the personal question, but how is motherhood treating you?

The best project! ᲨExcellent. It’s quite unusual.

And has raising children changed your attitude towards work?

I think this is probably a very classic thing. I found joy in the sense that I can define why I want to do something. Honey, I think, do this and your priorities are very clear. And that made me happier.