Trine Dyrholm: We can also be salacious bastards and terrible pigs

Trine Dyrholm, has just acquired Instagram. She gropes for the cell phone to display one of their posts at the same time as she chuckles something about being the last on the ball, and that people will believe that she ended up in a mid-life crisis just like bioaktuella the character of Anne in ”queen of Hearts” which suddenly sounds a seventeen year old to give her a luffartatuering in the kitchen.

not to mention how long it now takes when you first need to find läsglasögonen before I can check on something in the phone. It has only been a few minutes into the interview and Trine Dyrholms chosefria way has already made itself felt. The post she wants to show is from the 8th of march in the year, and shows the thirteen women directors including Pernille Fischer Christensen, Susanne Bier and Anna Odell, she worked with. The post marks a turning point for someone who had previously been unwilling to talk about the situation of women in the film industry.

" I'm just so very proud that I got to work with all these amazing women and wanted to take the opportunity to brösta me a little. A few years ago, the question make me provoked. Like when we were in London and would promote the tv series ”the Heirs”, where I directed two episodes, and the reporter wanted to talk about the fact that we were just women who had done the series. Then bothered me, but now I feel on the contrary that there is a great need for us to show us up so that we can inspire others, " says Trine Dyrholm in a hotel at Brunkebergstorg in central Stockholm.

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Some of these directors, she has also worked with multiple times, such as May el-Toukhy, which made the bioaktuella ”queen of Hearts”. In the movie she plays a middle-aged mother of two and a lawyer in his professional career defending young people who have suffered different types of violence and sexual offences. When the husband's ( Magnus Krepper) seventeen-year-old son Gustav (Gustav Lindh) suddenly pops up in their Danish designidyll pains she first about to include him in the family and then briskly move away from the role of intimate adult, and become a determined seductress.

Gustav Lindh and Trine Dyrholm in ”queen of Hearts”. Photo: Rolf Konow

”queen of Hearts” takes on the theme of female sexuality and power in a way that differs from many earlier depictions of the relationship between a young man and an older woman who is usually told from a male perspective and produced as an erotic fantasy. When the film premiered in Denmark for a month or so ago, one of the reviewers Anne's actions as an assault.

" That's what I think is so exciting with the film. It depicts just those grey areas, the abuse of power, her loneliness and his vulnerability. Previously well the image of this type of relationship, I think then, perhaps, mainly on the Bo Widerbergs ”Lust and beauty great”, romanticized. However, in that we make it her story, we open up for something completely different is at the limit of what is okay.

" Yes, but I think it is important that the characters may be unsympathetic and particularly with women. We can also exercise power, be salacious bastards and terrible pigs. I am an advocate for more characters like Anne. It is not my job to defend a character's actions without trying to convey their inner chaos and be brave enough to invite the audience to see what it is they are struggling with, " she says, and continues:

– Therefore, I knew that it would be an exciting project, and was absolutely convinced that the women behind the film would not moralizing or shy away from the complexity of the story.

Trine Dyrholm is now one of the leading actor with a record number of Bodil and Robert in the trunk (Denmark's main awards). She broke through in 1990 with the role of Pauline in ”Springflod”. Since then she has played in a number of Danish tv series and films such as ”Taxi” and Thomas Vinterbergs uppväxtskildring ”Collective” (2016). She, however, began as a singer and appeared already at the age of fourteen in the Danish eurovision song contest with the now cult song ”Dancing in the moonlight”.

His musical side, she has since been use for several times as an actress, most recently in the role as the fabled rock star Nico (”Nico, 1988”). In recent years she has also had a successful career in Germany. Just this year she has both had a role in a film about the playwright Bertolt Brecht and played in a tv-series that is about Bauhausgruppen. All of this without being able to speak especially good German.

" My great sadness in life is that I'm so bad at languages, which is strange considering that I'm pretty musical in general. I had to learn all the lines by heart, and only take roles where it's okay that I speak with accent. For some reason, I have nevertheless become some kind of darling in Germany.

She believes that even her English is something of a barrier to an international career. With the exception of the ”Wedding in Italy” (2012), where she played opposite Pierce Brosnan, she has above all made the Swedish and Danish roles. Or as she laconically says, when Hollywood comes:

– I look far too much like a normal human being.

– You can in any case try to turn it to their advantage!

to demonstrate what she means, she is playing up a little scene where she is pouring himself back in his chair and bresar all what she can with her legs.

" I think that you as a Danish woman can feel a little trollaktig sometimes. We have so to say a rather mellow style.

It vräkiga alter ego that suddenly pops up on the other side of the table is reminiscent of the satanic figure she did when she played Michael Persbrandts aggressive, respectively, the boundless page of Anna Odells ”X & Y”. The play of traditional gender roles has also been a thread running through her entire career. Herself, she takes up one of their early movies, ”A soap” (2006), where she plays a woman who begins a love relationship with her transsexual neighbor (played by David Dencik) as an example of all the movies she made that deal with the subject of sex.

– gender Roles interest me, really, and has been a theme in almost all of my movies. Private I do not feel at all that I fit in with what is considered ”typically” feminine and really likes to play with the masculine and the feminine.

After almost thirty years in the film industry have the opportunity to early participate in the process of work has become an important carrot in the work of Trine Dyrholm. In ”queen of Hearts” she has been with and format both the script and the character from the very beginning. She becomes noticeably excited when the call comes in on acting techniques and how to maintain focus when you have worked a long time as an actor.

I always create a backstory to my characters and scenes not in the script. They become like an emotional bank that I can retrieve the emotions out of the. Then I have something I call ”unconscious awareness”. It means that I, just when it is time to start and someone says ”action”, convince myself that I don't have a clue about what's going to happen, " she says, and adds:

– It may sound a little fuzzy, but luckily, I've met a lot of people on the road who are just as geeky as I am when it comes to finding the where the total presence.

Trine Dyrholm says that she is certainly interested in continuing to direct, but she just now get so many interesting offers as an actor who attracts her more. Scroll through her Instagram account, where he alternated with premiärfester and modeplåtningar, is also confirmed by the image of that Trine Dyrholm is a omsusad actress who will increasingly play the role of movie star.

Trine Dyrholm and David Dencik in ”A soap”.