Thursday, January 7, 2016

Alicia Vikander: encounter with the actress from “The Danish Girl” – THE WORLD

As a teenager is the actress on her forearms supported half on the tabletop. Casually, as if they were not sitting for an interview in a round verpolsterten Berlin luxury hotel, but in front of a glass of red wine in the kitchen of friends. And yet she sees them as such depends, somehow graceful from. That’s fine. At least Alicia Vikander can: to pleasantly unerwachsene kind elegance radiate

The 27-year old Swede was last year with all five films in the cinema , it is the face of Louis Vuitton campaign, the American “Vogue” she picked up on her cover, in the forthcoming film award ceremonies they will sit in the front row, that’s for sure. 2016 will be the year of Alicia Vikander.

The fictionalized biopic “The Danish Girl”, which comes in German cinemas next Thursday, will consolidate its status as the next great young actress by Jennifer Lawrence and they also make a wider audience. Who is this woman who can only go out of the way in the near future when very, very firm closes its eyes?

“I like it to tackle my characters from a physical side, “says in a noble-woolly ensemble dressed, just 1.63 meters wide Vikander with a remarkably harsh and dark voice that draws one into the trust, which sounds as if the actress on Eve too long dirty jokes told.

The perfect Kindchenschema

In her breakthrough film “Ex Machina”, a sci-fi Kammerspiel embodied, In the past year, a contemporary version of Frankenstein’s creature. Vikander Ava played with the measured movements of a sophisticated machine and a minimum facial expressions, oscillating between the sweet naivety of a newborn being, and the cool casualness of a machine.

Photo: © Universal Pictures “My ‘pinch me-mal’ moment holds now a few years of”

The fact that Ava carries most of the time no clothes on her by twitching of blue current techno-body and interfere on her head no hair visibility, provided an opportunity to study Vikanders face: large, wide-set brown eyes, about how Drawn with two sweeping brushstrokes eyebrows. Rosy cheeks in a round face.

Ava’s high, limited by any hairline robot end oversubscribed just what a large part contributes to Vikanders magic: the perfect Kindchenschema. It is the aged by only a few years childlike empress from the filming of the “Neverending Story”, -. However, without this suffering face, but in high spirits

In ” The Danish Girl “plays Vikander the painter Gerda Wegener, whose husband Einar (Eddie Redmayne) in 1930 reportedly the first person ever underwent in the world of sex reassignment surgery. (Here, the film marketing is wrong, however, probably intentionally: Actually, it was Lili Elbe, so Einar Wegener’s new name, the second man after Rudolph or Dora Richter)

Only a crossdresser porn. ?

“I think it’s pretty incredible,” says Vikander this Gerda Wegener, who held to Lili Elbe, supported them in their Frauwerdung and repeatedly painted – at a time when it was not suspecting that transgender would be celebrated one hundred years later in “Vanity Fair” -Titeln, in television series and movies.

Photo: Universal Pictures Vikander with co-star Eddie Redmayne, who discovered his feminine side in the film in the role of Einar Wegener

“It is interesting to play a character who lives against the prevailing morality.” They had to dig deep in order to identify what Gerda replied in a position to do so. Seen “I hope that I could be so selfless.”

Someone like Gerda, the other supported in their self-discovery, going by other fast as passive says Vikander and takes as even not enough. “But when I read the script, I had a very different impression. You can not just happen like that. She does everything because it has so decided.” Vikander plays Gerda Wegener as resolute and energetic young woman, always just out and on the go. It is pioneer and campaigner for the cause Lili Elbe -. Walking her lost exactly characterized

In the United States was “The Danish Girl” with some justification criticized for a based on true events Trans-history to flatten to a crossdresser porn. The film revels in roaring fabrics, fur, makeup and wig hair. And that it may not go well with the protagonist, one suspects. Whether Tom Hanks in “Philadelphia” or Hillary Swank in “Boys Do not Cry”: There is no happy ending for Queers. On the freedom won death follows.

introversion as an instrument of power

On January 10, the Golden Globes are awarded. Vikander is nominated both for her role in “The Danish Girl” as well as for their Ava. At the Oscars it stands equally well, they tell themselves. Everything looks after, when you succeed, what Noomi Rapace (also Swede who Lisbeth Salander in the film adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s “Millenium” series) did not make it: the leap from the European hope for Hollywood star.

One advantage of this is that their physiognomy they qualified for historical subjects as well as for hyper contemporary sci-fi stories. This distinguishes, for example, by the similarly androgynous colleague Keira Knightley, with whom she played 2012 in the remake of “Anna Karenina”.

Vikanders rise like meteoric act, but she stressed that she had just worked all the time. With seven she was, the introverted child of divorce a theater actress and a psychiatrist, occupied for a musical in the Gothenburg Opera and was the next three and a half years on the stage. A friend from teen times referred Vikanders introversion as their unconscious instrument of power: Everyone wants to know about her, as if she divulge more

Photo: AP reduction to the essential: Vikander in” Ex Machina “

At 15, she moved alone to Stockholm to make a ballet training. With her schoolmates she shared painkillers like other chocolate (accompanied by constant pain dance training to make directors as colleagues for Vikanders tremendous body control and presence responsible). She played with in a soap opera, applied twice unsuccessfully for drama school.

She learned English accent, sent countless demo tapes to casting directors. And when she finally was living in London in an apartment with three girlfriends and also spent had just enrolled in Jura, the promise came for her first leading role in the Swedish indie production “Pure”.

“The university said I could come back next semester. But since I already had the next job,” she says, and pulls half apologetically, half in triumph their eyes on. So it went on then. First major roles (this year comes with four films to the movies, including the next part of the “Bourne” series), Home Ownership in London, fellow-boyfriend (Michael Fassbender), the Louis Vuitton job, soon the Oscars. “My ‘pinch me-mal’ Moment now holds quite a few years,” she says.

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