Director Joachim Trier and cast Renate Reinsve, Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas sat down at THR's TIFF suite at the 1 Hotel in Toronto to dish on their new movie 'Sentimental Value.' Trier touches on the sad love story of the film while Fanning talks about struggling with her Norwegian accent and more.
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.
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