So remember colleagues Bibi Andersson: A brilliant actor

Bibi Andersson (1935-2019) was a ”brilliant actor”. It says Jörn Donner, the former ceo at the Swedish Film institute, to DN.

– It was due to the Ingmar Bergman to one part. A movie like ”Persona” would hardly have been possible without Bergman, without her and without Liv Ullmann. It is all about presence, and the mediated by their roles, " he says.

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Bibi Andersson's life's work as ”the many roles and the many fine films”. He says that he previously knew her fairly well, but it was a long time ago.

– Immediacy. Friendship. Care.

– It is always sad. But thinking on his own part instead. We all become older, when one disappears, so it is one less in the circle of people you have known.

working with Bibi Andersson in the Dramatenuppsättningarna ”Long day's journey into night” and ”Peer Gynt”, both directed by Bergman.

" She was very funny and direct. She said things straight out, somehow, thought not always, but very straight and nice, " says Lena Endre.

" She has been bad for so long and have been at Stockholms sjukhem for many years already. I think of her husband and her sister, and all who have been there and watched, and visited her in these years. My thoughts really go to them. There are so many that have gone away now so that it almost completely numbed by all that disappears, " she continues.

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Jan Holmberg, ceo of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation. Photo: Fredrik Funck

the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, notes that one of Bergman's last employees is now gone. He describes Bibi Andersson as ”one of Sweden's great actresses”.

Some actors have a limited registry, but the registry totally amazing and unmatched. Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann is absolutely perfect in the roles that they play of Ingmar Bergman, but they do not have the huge breadth that I see with Bibi Andersson. She would have been able to play anything, " he says.

Jan Holmberg met with Bibi Andersson at one point. It was when the Ingmar Bergman Foundation had just been formed, and he would give a presentation at the cannes film festival. A nervous moment, as it turned out.

" She showed up and I was introduced by someone. So I would try to say something and then she said very authoritatively, ”now you get to take a few deep breaths, so maybe we can talk a little bit later,” says Jan Holmberg, and continues:

" I think in any way that it honors her, too. Some of the celebrities you can think of find any kind of pleasure in someone who so clearly shows his admiration. She seemed to not be interested in it, she wanted to talk about other things, and it is a credit to her.