The Swedish actress, who plays the role of Mira Harberg, evokes her meeting with Olivier Assayas, author of a series from her film.
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of Alicia Vikander we know the matte skin and fine features, the couple she forms with Michael Fassbender and her role of muse of a large luxury brand. But her career as a Nordic actress, with perfect English, had so far had an elusive side. First intended for a ballerina career, the Swedish finally followed suit with her mother, a famous theater actress. For the past fifteen years, the 33 -year -old young woman has been following a paradox -shaped course, between independent cinema (pure, Blue Bayou) and successful franchises (Tomb Raider, Jason Bourne).
But at a time when French cinema is tearing around the uncertain future of theaters at the competition of platforms, it is a series of author produced by a powerful toll chain, HBO, which Offers its most interesting role to Alicia Vikander to date. And since we are no longer a paradox near, it is at the Cannes Film Festival that the first episodes of the serial version of Irma Vep – the history of the complicated filming of a remake of vampires, the serial of Louis Feuillade released in 1915 of which Irma Vep is one of the main characters – have been screened.
Mira Harberg, the young star that Alicia Vikander performs in the series that Olivier Assayas drawn from his own film released in 1996, inevitably recalls the imagination of the celebrity chaired by the characters of Kristen Stewart in Sils Maria ( 2014) and Personal Shopper (2016) of the director. When we meet it in an impersonal suite of the Majestic, the actress on promotion, frozen in the luxury of her clothes and the coldness of the moment, confuses strangely with her character. It will take a little time to lower the guard and it is obviously speaking of cinema that it warms up.
The young woman had met the French filmmaker at the time when he was preparing Personal Shopper. The two had sympathized around conversations on Bergman and, when they found themselves some time later to have lunch, the director spoke of adapting Irma Vep in a longer format. “I knew the film because my mother made me see it when I was a teenager. Olivier offered to be part of the project when he had not started writing it, I obviously said Yes “, recalls the actress, who quotes the summer time (2008) and Sils Maria as important sources of inspiration.
” cinema neuroses “
“I fed a certain guilt of not having hired Alicia on Personal Shopper, remembers the director, back in Paris where he finished the last episodes of the series. To redo Irma Vep, I needed M ‘ Press the total commitment of an actress. “A commitment that is due to this mirror game involved in shooting a film in the film and put actors in the skin of actors. “Because of her experience and in the theater and in dance, Alicia has a very wide palette, he adds. She can be full of things. I knew she would be very fair in this role, which is a bit Aside. “There is indeed a kind of evidence to see it put on the black combination of the criminal of the vampires and use the dance – the choreographies are signed Angelin Preljocaj – to better slip into his skin.
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