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Posted by Trevor Don on May 25, 2023

During a wide-ranging conversation for THR‘s Awards Chatter podcast at the Campari Lounge at the Cannes Film Festival, Oscar winner Alicia Vikander went through her career from her upbringing in Sweden and background in ballet to her Oscar-winning role in The Danish Girl and her latest film Firebrand, which will screen in competition at the festival.

Vikander’s big break in her native Sweden came with 2010’s Pure. She then turned heads in the 2012 Danish film A Royal Affair, co-starring with Mads Mikkelsen, but it was her role in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina that gained her notoriety in the U.S. “Everything that needs to be there, is there and nothing else. A lot of it you had to understand by reading the action and understanding what is happening in the scene emotionally,” she said of the Garland- written screenplay. For the self-tape audition for the film, she remembers pulling her hair back in a tight bun and putting “a full bottle” of sunscreen on her face in order to gain the shiny appearance of the robot, Ava, she would eventually play.

The actress earned an Oscar for her role in the 2015 film The Danish Girl, in which she plays artist Gerda Wegener, the wife of Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne), one of the first known recipients of gender-affirming surgery. “It’s incredible to see where we are now in comparison to when Danish Girl came out. My journey making TheDanish Girl was huge because I got to personally meet and become friends with so many people from the trans community,” said Vikander. “Obviously, with the way the conversation has gone now, that film probably would not have been that way now but it was one of the first steps. So, in that sense, it was an important one for the conversation.

Following The Danish Girl, Vikander appeared onscreen with her now husband Michael Fassbender in The Light Between Oceans. She said, “He’s my husband and best friend but I also consider him one of the greatest actors of his generation.”

In between indies and awards season features, Vikander has also had her turn in the occasional blockbuster, including Paul Greengrass’ Jason Bourne, in which she starred opposite Matt Damon. She says she took the role because “I was a huge Jason Bourne fan,” adding, “It’s funny going to work when you are the fan.” Vikander also played Lara Croft in the latest attempt at a Tomb Raider movie, taking the role having played the computer game as a kid.

Her latest, Firebrand, which is screening in competition at the festival and hails from director Karim Aïnouz, sees Vikander star as Queen Catherine Parr, the final wife of Henry VIII, played in the film by Jude Law.

Vikander did a historical deep dive on Parr, noting that she has received less attention in history than the to the ill-fated first wives of Henry VIII. “No one really cared that she was the first woman in British history that published books under her own name,” said Vikander. Adding that she was “managing this danger and person next to [her] all the time. To survive that, you have to be very delicate and clever.

In recounting her career, Vikander also spoke about the night of the Academy Awards at which she earned the Oscar for The Danish Girl. Vikander’s date that evening was her mother, who recently passed away. “Over the past few months, I have had tons of family and friends sharing photos,” she said, tearing up. “One of the most shared photos (was) of my mom and me that night.

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Posted by Trevor Don on May 25, 2023

In Britain, schoolchildren learning about Tudor history are taught a handy rhyme to remember the order of King Henry VIII’s six wives: “Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.”

Hollywood has for decades been transfixed by the “beheaded” and “died” bits — essentially, the stories about women suffering — but what moviegoers are rarely reminded of is the wife who outlived Henry. In Karim Aïnouz’s hotly anticipated “Firebrand,” it’s the notorious Tudor king’s final companion, Katherine Parr, who finally takes center stage.

What’s mostly been dramatized are the wives who didn’t make it,” says Swedish star Alicia Vikander, who plays the surviving queen opposite Jude Law’s ailing monarch. “[When I read the script] I immediately thought, ‘Huh, isn’t it interesting that most people know more about the other wives.’ It’s almost like people are drawn to quite grim stories.

The more Vikander, an Oscar-winner for “The Danish Girl,” read up on Parr and her experience, the more bewildered she became about the grisly narrative surrounding Henry VIII’s wives. “I was like, ‘How could [Parr] not be more known?’ Especially considering that, yes, she survived more years than the other ones, but she was also the first woman under her own name in British history to get published,” says Vikander.

The learned and curious Parr published a number of religious texts beginning in 1545. But as detailed in “Firebrand,” her quest for knowledge and passion for debate almost cost her her life when she was accused of heresy. Scholars beware: Aïnouz’s particular rendition of history has a revisionist edge that bestows the tired annals of history with a modern angle. (“It was about having artistic freedom to make a strong story and to surprise people,” explains Vikander.)

Ultimately, it was Aïnouz’s depth and vision that “drew [her] attention.” “I was in Cannes and I saw ‘The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao’ and I was so curious [about him],” says the actor.

We didn’t grow up with British history in the same sense,” she says, reflecting on both their backgrounds — Vikander from Sweden, and Aïnouz from Brazil. This “outsider” status allowed for a new way of approaching the subject matter.

“If I were telling a very Swedish story, there may be a part of me that feels some sort of obligation to honor a story that feels like a part of my culture,” she explains. “It can be a good thing when you don’t have that reference as much, because you come from another perspective.”

The world of costume drama, however, is familiar terrain for Vikander, whose big breakout came with the 2012 Swedish film “A Royal Affair,” in which she played a young queen married to a mad king. That same year came “Anna Karenina,” which was her first time working opposite Jude Law, and then World War I drama “Testament of Youth.”

To better understand the Tudor period, Aïnouz recruited experts who had actually lived like Tudors for six months, though not in court but rather on working farms — a “very primitive” and decidedly unglamorous experience that’s also rarely seen on screen. “It made us want to strip back and make something that feels very raw and authentic,” adds Vikander. “I loved that he wanted to undress the costume drama.”

If the idea of a pared-back Tudor story set in the court of Henry VIII doesn’t quite jive on paper, rest assured it’s masterfully executed, but never heavy-handed: rather, it’s in the movie’s small details, such as Vikander’s Katherine rubbing coal into her teeth to look like a villager before sneaking out, or Law’s Henry bantering with his posse of advisors as though they’re in an episode of “Entourage.” “Firebrand” feels human in a way that many movies from the period have failed to.

Of working opposite Law in a role unlike anything he’s taken on before (the chiselled star completely disappears under Henry’s prosthetic jowls), Vikander highlights Law’s skill as a character actor. “I think more and more, he gets to have parts where he really gets to show that.

Meanwhile, of her own artistic ambitions, Vikander says she’s less focused on Oscar-baiting roles and more concerned with who she’s in the trenches with. “Maybe it’s about getting old or growing up, but you go through stages and — especially when I became a mother — I [prefer] to work with people that I highly admire.”

Don’t count her out from leading another action franchise, though. Vikander says she was crushed when plans for the “Tomb Raider” sequel fizzled out. MGM lost the rights to the property in May 2022 as it hadn’t yet greenlit a new instalment.

I mean, I thought we were very much [good to go]; we had a director and writer. But yeah, for me, that was another one of those childhood dreams — to portray an action character was awesome, and beyond what I ever thought I would do. And I think the physical part is something that I really enjoyed. So, yeah, if another opportunity like that came again, I’ll be interested.”

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Posted by Trevor Don on May 25, 2023

The Oscar-winning actress speaks with Scott Feinberg on a special live episode of THR’s Awards Chatter podcast at Cannes, co-presented by THR and Campari.

 

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Posted by Alissa on August 30, 2020

An enforced pause meant that the globe-hopping, high-achieving Alicia Vikander had the chance to stop and reflect. Now she’s back at work, it’s not all business as usual…

‘I’M IN A GARAGE!’ cries Oscar-winning actor Alicia Vikander. She picks up her laptop and twirls me around on Zoom to prove it. Indeed, she is surrounded by grey concrete pillars and industrial strip lighting in, what I can gather, is a subterranean garage somewhere in Paris. And then she’s back, the camera on her dainty figure with hair scraped back into a ballerina’s bun, revealing tiny white ear buds that wouldn’t have looked out of place on her character Ava, the AI robot she played in Ex Machina.

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It’s not her garage. She’s on set for the ELLE cover shoot, but Vikander is perfectly happy with the set-up. After all, she says, this is her first day back at work after several months.

As coronavirus shuttered the world, Vikander was stuck in France where she’d attended Paris Fashion Week, sitting front row at Louis Vuitton – a brand she’s been an ambassador of for five years. With European borders rapidly closing, she escaped the capital city to her holiday house near a small farming village in rural France, where she spent most of lockdown holed up with her husband, the actor Michael Fassbender.

The Zoom calls she took there, for work and to catch up with family, had a slightly more homely background than the one she’s framed by now, with a bookshelf and a window looking out onto greenery. I ask whether there was ever, you know, any risk of Fassbender walking past the window unsuspectingly while she was on a call. It’s not happened thus far… ‘But that’s the thing when you’re in your house,’ she laughs. ‘There’s always a risk of someone in the background. My husband was often around making coffee or putting the boiler on,’ she says, giving a rare domestic insight into the life of one of Hollywood’s starriest, but famously private, couples.

However cosy the set up in France sounds – and it does sound idyllic, with trips to the market, grilled fish cooked on the BBQ, impromptu dancing in the kitchen and virtual poker nights with her family – her enthusiasm for being back at work is palpable.

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‘I’m actually really excited,’ she says in an accent that is mostly transatlantic, though she pronounces certain words with a clean, staccato edge – the only evidence of her Swedish native tongue. She’s not oblivious to the new normal though: ‘What we’ve gone through these past few months… I realise how different it feels being back to what we used to call “normality”.’

For the past 16 years, normality for Vikander has been a fairly peripatetic existence. At age 15, she moved from Gothenburg – on the west coast of Sweden, where she lived with her mother, also an actor – to Stockholm to join the Royal Swedish Ballet School. After three years there, she made one of the hardest decisions in her life: to quit ballet. ‘It was such a tough decision that I couldn’t even train or be in a dance studio… For about a year I had to stop everything, that was just what I had to go through,’ she recalls.

But performing wasn’t something she could give up easily, and aged 20 she landed the lead role in the Swedish coming-of-age film Pure, for which she won a major award in Sweden. It was the first of many accolades for Vikander, who has worked continuously since then, making at least one film a year. In 2015, she starred in five major releases, including The Danish Girl for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Around that time, she met future husband Michael Fassbender on the set of The Light Between Oceans, where the Irish-German star was taken by her ‘bravery’ as an actor. Vikander has said that she was struck by his openness, such as the way he’d solicit her advice for trickier scenes. The couple married in October 2017 with a low-key ceremony on a beach in Ibiza and chose to settle in Lisbon, ‘to get away from London and big cities’.

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I ask whether they would consider working together again. She takes a moment to think before saying, ‘I would love to work with him one day, but we’re very much individuals, which I love and I think is good in any relationship. We both take on parts because it’s a film that is right for us, so it would have to be the same if we were ever to work together again.’

Indeed, one of the most beguiling things about Vikander is the films she’s chosen throughout her career, which have been much more art house than Hollywood superhero. That is, before she inherited the role of Lara Croft from Angelina Jolie for the 2018 remake of Tomb Raider.

This enforced hiatus then, is the longest the 31-year-old has ever been in one place for more than a month in a long time. As someone who is renowned for their discipline and dedication – Joe Wright, who directed her in her first big English-speaking role in Anna Karenina, called her a ‘relentless perfectionist’ – to suddenly have to stop and just be wasn’t easy for Vikander.

‘It’s part of my personality, that if I have four days off then I want to use them to do something, to explore this new country or see these things. I want to use the time and I think that’s maybe not the healthiest way of living sometimes,’ she says, reflecting that her dad, a psychiatrist, has often told her as much.

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‘I’ve struggled with a lot of both anxiety and stress over the years. My dad’s always said, “You know, Alicia [she pronounces her name with a thick Swedish accent to impersonate her dad], it takes three weeks for your body to know that you’ve stopped and you’re about to relax.” His voice has been ringing in the back of my head several times [during lockdown],’ she says.

It was only after week five of being stuck in the same house that she managed to ease into it and ‘really enjoy being with myself… how lovely it was to have a day when I was just a bit bored. That felt pretty amazing.’ Will she take some of the new-found calm with her into life post-lockdown? ‘I think it’s OK to work a lot, then take off three or four weeks a year… I’ll take up my dad’s three-week rule and try to take a chunk of time at some point to recharge and bring myself back to zero,’ she says, as a promise to her future self.

In the meantime, she’s gearing up for the release of her next big film, The Glorias, a biopic based on the book My Life on the Road by pioneering feminist Gloria Steinem. Vikander stars as one of four Glorias, hence the title – alongside Julianne Moore, who depicts the activist’s older years, and two rising stars who portray the young Glorias. Vikander plays the activist’s formative years from the ages of 20 to 40. Her first scene in the film is on a packed train in India, sharing chai with a carriage full of women in sarees. It’s during these travels that Steinem experienced the compassion of local activists who went into villages and listened to women’s struggles. Inspired, she returned to New York where she called off her college engagement and started out as a journalist, and later went on to found Ms., the groundbreaking feminist magazine.

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Vikander’s portrayal of Steinem is already earning early Oscar hype. But it’s also a part that she’s clearly relished, mostly for the long conversations she’s had with other women about Gloria’s life. ‘The first thing I did when I read the book was call my mum and some of my friends’ mums to hear their memories of her back in the day. I was blown away by the journey she’s done and women like her throughout history,’ she says.

It seems the feeling was mutual. When I ask Steinem about Vikander playing her on screen, she says that her performance was enchanting: ‘Only [director] Julie Taymor – a genius in every way, including casting – understood that a Swedish/European actor could inhabit me, an American from the Midwest. From eating lunch with my father in a very American diner, to travelling with women on a train in India, Alicia captured emotions that can’t really be described… She inspires that most rare and crucial quality: trust.’

Although Vikander plays Steinem during the 1960s and 1970s – when the activist settled into her signature style of oversized aviator sunglasses and miniskirts, which were ridiculed by both men and hardline feminists – there’s a clear resonance with today’s protests in support of women’s reproductive and civil rights.

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We talk about women in France not being able to get an abortion during lockdown and the events in the US following the murder of George Floyd. Vikander, like many people, has spent time trying to educate herself by watching films and listening to Black friends talk about their experiences. The only thing stopping her from joining the Black Lives Matter protests, which took place around the world, was that she was struck down by Covid-19, ‘I wanted to be out there but, for obvious reasons, I couldn’t leave my house,’ she says regretfully.

Playing the role of Steinem and being able to meet her, inspired a personal epiphany for Vikander: ‘I grew up in a house with a mother who taught me about the word feminism from the age of five,’ she says, ‘And I respect that, but then we’re all part of the general unconscious bias of the world we’ve been brought up in. I feel over the past few years and then seeing Gloria’s work and her history, we’re being confronted again with the knowledge that it’s been a very hard journey.

So much work and thought has been put into it, which sadly doesn’t often happen by itself. Time helps, but it’s also due to some incredible people along the way who have been daring enough when everyone else is trying to shut them down.’

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She spoke to Steinem about her fears of challenging the status quo. As the film shows, the activist was terrified of public speaking at the beginning. These conversations helped Vikander confront some of her own fears. The actor describes her thirties as a new, more content decade. ‘I’ve finally started to be a bit more gentle and nicer to myself,’ she says wistfully. ‘I want to do all these things, and I want to progress and I want to be clever and smart and to learn. But I think when you’re in your twenties it’s hard, because you’re trying to find out who you are.’

Part of Vikander’s epiphany has been realising that it’s normal to change your opinion: ‘I think that’s important and that’s something Gloria said, too.’ Last year, the actor took an unconscious bias course. ‘It was so interesting. You realise that there are all these fast information [paths] in your brain that you’ve been taught and it’s OK to have had an opinion. I’m not as afraid… I thought I saw the world in one way, now that’s starting to change. That’s something Gloria said was OK: to have different versions of yourself, because you transform all the time.’

There was a time when Vikander was too scared to speak up for herself. When she first worked with Julianne Moore in 2014 on fantasy film Seventh Son, she recalls an incident when a man on set made a distasteful joke about her for everyone to hear. Vikander’s 20-year-old self didn’t dare say anything – ‘I was just thankful to be there. I was afraid of speaking up or losing respect, or that people would find me difficult’ – but Julianne Moore did. ‘I think she was like, “If you ever say anything like that again, I’m leaving and we’re done.” That changed my situation on set going forward and it meant the world to me.’

Although Vikander says she’s never experienced any sexual harassment on set, she recalls other uncomfortable environments: ‘It’s mostly been men, but women too, who have talked about sex on set in a way that I just don’t find appropriate in a workspace at all,’ she says. ‘I understand what can go wrong in those situations.’

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She has seen a noticeable change since #MeToo, however; a recent project for Netflix involved a three-hour group session with the cast, which involved talking about boundaries – Vikander says she’s a hugger and had to realise that not everyone wants to be hugged on set – as well as laying down certain rules, including two colleagues not being allowed to meet in their hotel room to discuss work. She sat next to her co-star Riley Keough and, when they came out of the session, they couldn’t believe what they’d just sat through: ‘We said if it had existed when we were 20, it would have for sure been another vibe.’

But even before she started working in Hollywood, Vikander had already experienced the very traditional world of ballet. It’s clear that her relationship with her time there is mixed: it’s where she got her discipline and work ethic from, but it also put her, and her teenage body, under a lot of stress.

‘I’ve often thought to myself, If I were to have a kid, would I put them in ballet school? I do really treasure a lot of my work ethic and things that I got from that education, but it either makes you or breaks you. And it could have as easily have gone the other way [for me],’ she says.

The effect it had on her body image is also something that has stayed with Vikander: ‘Being in a leotard looking at your body in a mirror seven hours a day, six days a week and having people talk about your body in front of you and in front of other girls and boys… Growing up with that is not healthy.’

‘I was very lucky to go through ballet school without having an eating disorder. I don’t know how, I think it was my mum who talked to me about it every day,’ she recalls. ‘But when I stopped ballet, I continued to eat a lot and – it’s stupid because I was really thin when I was dancing – but I gained two or three kilos and I freaked out when I saw a photo [of myself] because my body had changed’.

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It was then that naturally petite Vikander started restricting what she ate. ‘Like so many other girls I was like, I shouldn’t eat carbs. That was the first thing I heard about, so I stopped eating bread.’ It was only when preparing for her role as Lara Croft, when she trained at 4am most days before filming started and gained 5kg in muscle, that she says she really understood the importance of diet and a healthy approach to getting strong.

It’s a regime she might have to take up again soon if talks of Tomb Raider 2, directed by Ben Wheatley, come to fruition, even if the chances of Hollywood opening up again in the near future look uncertain. ‘The world we live in right now… there’s a lot of fear,’ she says, not allowing herself to get too excited.

With all this uncertainty hanging in the air, I ask whether she believes in fate, and things working out for a reason. After all, there was a time when it looked unlikely that she’d be able to do both The Danish Girl and The Light Between Oceans because of a filming clash, which was eventually resolved. The two films have been pivotal in her life, the former winning her an Oscar and the latter introducing her to her husband.

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‘I think things come and go. I’ve played a lot of [the dice game] Yahtzee during lockdown. It’s pretty crazy when you play it a thousand times and you realise it’s going to end up being the same numbers for both people at the end of it. But somehow along the way you have the best luck ever and you win 14 times in a row,’ she laughs. ‘Sometimes you’re too busy to realise that you’re having a good roll and you can get blinded by the tough things you go through… I think it’s like that in life. But of course, that time was a jackpot!’ she says, flinging her arms up in front of the screen.

With that streak of winner’s luck, she signs off from the garage and gets to work. There’s no doubt that, for Vikander, there’ll be another jackpot just around the corner.

Posted by Alissa on December 01, 2019

LONDON (Reuters) – Swedish-born Oscar winner Alicia Vikander performs in both English and Japanese in her new movie, thriller “Earthquake Bird”, as she immerses herself in 1980s Tokyo.

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The actress portrays an expat translator caught up in a love triangle in the film, directed by Wash Westmoreland and based on the novel of the same name by Susanna Jones.

Vikander’s character Lucy Fly begins a romantic relationship with photographer Teiji (Naoki Kobayashi) but things start to unravel with the arrival of fellow expat Lily Bridges, played by Riley Keough.

Reuters spoke with Vikander – who played cyborg Ava in “Ex Machina” and won an Oscar for “The Danish Girl” – and with Westmoreland about the movie, released on streaming service Netflix on Friday.

Below are edited excerpts.

Q: Is speaking Japanese a hidden talent of yours?

Vikander: “I always had this dream of going to Japan, it was the one country that I wanted to go to. I managed to go there like three … four years ago for the first time for press and then, the second time, I just said, ‘oh my God, I just want to be in this culture for a longer period of time’ but the only thing that would make that happen is if a film would be made here.”

“(The film) was an opportunity for me, to embrace myself in that culture and go there.”

Q: Your characters Ava and Lucy, were they uniquely difficult to embody?

“My, kind of, revelation when I prepped for (Ava), was realizing that when I made her like a refined human, like a human 2.0, if I made all the human-like movements, but I just made them a bit more refined and without twitches, then it felt a bit off … With Lucy … she’s more expressive in a way. She tries to hold it back but I don’t think she really can.”

Q: How much is “Earthquake Bird” an exploration of love versus obsession?

Westmoreland: “It really looks at this relationship between these two characters and it’s more to do with their past, and particularly … damaging experiences (Lucy) had in the past. Their relationship has both elements of love and obsession because there is something that connects the characters very deeply but there’s also something that keeps the characters apart.”

Q: I recently spoke with (director) Brian de Palma, who was asking what ‘happened to beauty in cinema’. Here, picture quality and a hint of the 1980s are noticeable – was that on purpose?

Westmoreland: “(With) cinematographer Chung-hoon Chung … and Yohei Taneda, my production designer, we started talking about the colors and the palette and this kind of Tokyo blue-grey. It’s the color the city goes after sunset so we wanted that to permeate the film… We wanted to create this world that was immersive.”

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Posted by Alissa on November 23, 2019

Do you own a pair of ice-skates? And What are your feelings about ABBA? We sat down with Alicia Vikander, the star of Netflix’s Earthquake Bird, to test her Nordic-ness in a game of How Nordic Are You?

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