00:00I kept asking Yokyama, I was like, can you repeat how to say that and do the Norwegian accent?
00:06Because my character has to do kind of a Norwegian accent.
00:10And luckily, she's not supposed to be that great at it.
00:13I think she's doing a very cliched version of it, but she's trying hard, so luckily.
00:19But yeah, I don't know. I know Sven.
00:23Sven, I keep saying it differently.
00:25It means exciting.
00:30It's a story about sisters, it's a story about cinema, but it's also kind of a sad love story between a father and a daughter, I think.
00:39And I need to find that father.
00:40And we wrote him to be a bit of an asshole, but I thought, that's not interesting.
00:44He needs to be a human being, because the story's about reconciliation.
00:49And who better for the role than the sweetheart, Stellan Skarsgård?
00:54But at the moment, I was seeing you float around mid-air as a kind of a monster in the Dune movies, which you did brilliantly.
01:01So I was like, is he really that nice?
01:03Everyone says he's nice.
01:04And then we met, and you are really nice.
01:06No, but I think you gave really Gustav, you know, he's not one-dimensional when you do him.
01:12You give him a real human capacity as a character, which means a lot to the film.
01:16Renate was someone, obviously, that I wanted to work with again, and I knew very well.
01:21She played a small part in Oslo, August 31st.
01:24I think you had, like, one line of dialogue.
01:27Let's go to the party.
01:28Which she did so brilliantly that I had to write her a feature.
01:33She went to the party?
01:36No, we don't actually see her at the party, but she invited them to the party, which is great.
01:41You guys can understand each other and speak to each other, because that's been something that people have been thinking.
01:44I can't understand him.
01:46I don't understand her.
01:49The words I understand.
01:54I've made more Norwegian films than Swedish films, so in Norway I'm more famous than in Sweden, actually.
02:03They think I'm a Norwegian actor, but with a speech impediment.
02:08I think that the latest role is always the best one, I think.
02:13So, I'm getting better and better.
02:17Watching what happened with Renate's career was really huge for us in Norway, a lot of us actors, at least.
02:23And we're very proud of her.
02:25All of us, I think.
02:27And I think her career is her career.
02:29And it's great to be in a movie that's getting recognition, and I'm just excited to be part of this ride and see where it takes me.
02:39Is there a movie, or you could say book, that you have pretended to have seen?
02:45Star Wars.
02:48Yeah.
02:49Yeah.
02:50Star Wars.
02:50I've seen one Star Wars, I think.
02:55But not the early ones.
02:58But I've definitely, sometimes I will admit, and sometimes I'll just submit.
03:04I'll just be like, oh, yeah, yeah, totally.
03:06I know the characters, but.
03:10Recognized.
03:10You can get by, you know what I mean?
03:12Yeah, totally.
03:14I kind of just, like, really got into cinema, and there were so many movies that you mentioned where I was sitting, nodding.
03:20Like, mm.
03:21I'm sorry.
03:22Yes, that reference was very important to us.
03:25I've had the opposite.
03:26I was in a, I won't mention the studio as a young director.
03:30After my first film, I was invited to L.A.
03:32People were very generous, and I was rushed into a meeting with some studio executives on a big lot somewhere, and we started talking about my film a bit.
03:41And I suddenly realized one of the gentlemen were talking about a different film, and I just played along and tried to figure out, like, what we're really talking about.
03:49I was too shy to kind of call it out, and it became very strange.
03:53Anyway, you know, like, and I can't blame them.
03:55These people are probably generous to a lot of filmmakers, you know.
03:59I know I have some where I haven't seen the movie, but I've been in conversations where I've sort of had to just go with it, but I'm not going to disclose.
04:10You won't admit.
04:10Because you might do that again.
04:11It might be.
04:14Yeah.
04:15It's one that you've pretended around us.
04:17This movie.
04:18Never seen.
04:19It's a sentimental value.
04:20Yeah.
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