When other children read comic books, read the little Kristofer Hivju vikingasagor. He romanticised våldspoesin in the fairy tales and had a great fascination for the viking age. So when the role of vildlingsledaren Tormund Giantsbane in the ”Game of thrones” would be added, he felt that it was right.
Since the third season has Hivju made one of the supporting roles. When the eighth and final season, is approaching the end and it is time to say goodbye to a character he has lived with for six years. During that time, his role evolved from an antagonistic warrior to a softer, slightly comical, hjältefigur.
– Tormund has the authority but is not self-aggrandizement. He has a heat, but is nevertheless dangerous. A fierce warrior, but basically a good man. It has been amazing to explore and find new things in every season, ” says Kristofer Hivju on the telephone from the western norway in Norway, where he finally has time to write the script and take the ”fun”.
But he is grateful for the six years of ”Game of thrones”.
” I have really got the space to develop the character. The first version of the Giantsbane is the George R R Martin wrote in the books, then have the animation artists added to their portrait of him. So have the versions met me and I have been able to give him the body and life.
Kristofer Hivju as Tormund and Rose Leslie as Ygritte in the fourth season of Game of thrones. Photo: HBO Nordic
has spread all over the world, many have also chosen to connect fantasyseriens action to reality. In the DN did Johan Norberg, a change in the reading of the story, in the newspaper Aftonbladet described the one document as ”a story about climate change”. At the university of Oslo invited to a seminar where, among other things, compared the series with modern warfare.
Kristofer Hivju says that he absolutely believed that George R R Martin has taken the impression of our world’s history when he wrote the book.
” Our history has been very much about to conquer the land and to gain power. The red dash that separates our countries are in rivers of blood. So ”Game of thrones” may be a paraphrase of the world’s history. But you can interpret into what you want and recognize the battles in the series, but it is nevertheless a fantasiuniversum, ” he says.
– Each story that is told is about to teach the man about how it is to be human. For it is difficult to be human. Tormund is a part of the people of the excluded. They are distinct from the country with the help of a wall, they are seen as animals and are kept outside, along with an army of the dead. But Tormund is set to change and willing to see beyond the thousands of years of conflicts in order to fight a greater enemy – to fight death.
and his boisterous laughter associated he, of course, with the character he has played since 2013. Sometimes it is hard not to feel that you talk with Tormund Giantsbane, but Kristofer Hivju reminds me.
“I’m Christopher,” he says and adds.
” But right now it is ”Game of thrones”-the fever and then it is Tormund. But there will be new things.
The last season of ”Game of thrones” beats record after record. The third section, ”The long night” was seen as the HBO of 17.8 million viewers just in the first day. Each section of the season has cost closer to 150 million, according to trade magazine Variety.
” For me it is more exotic to make smaller productions. In the ”Game of thrones”, we were often 900 people who would gather for lunch. It is clear that there is a large machinery.
” It has been an amazing journey where the quality has constantly increased. But everything has an end, and ”Game of thrones” has always been a story with a thought. Of course it seems bad, but it is also enough.
in Parallel with the ”Game of thrones” has Hivju also played in several Beck-films. His role Steinar Hovland came in Martin Beck’s colleague then Mikael Persbrandts Gunvald character was written out of the series.
On the question of how it was to wind the quite different roles, responding Kristofer Hivju with a boisterous laugh.
– first, Steinar ten kilos lighter than Tormund, so I’ve got to go up and down in weight. ”Game of thrones” is also so shakespearianskt. Everything is life and death. Steinar is much closer to the socialrealism, closer to the ordinary people who work with interpersonal relationships – and do not go around in suits and swords.
For the first time in six years, the calendar is a little more open, says Kristofer Hivju. First is the premiere of the Norwegian thrillerserien ”Twin”, which he developed together with Kristoffer Metcalfe developed over 15 years. In the six-hour-long series, he plays a dual role as two twins.
at the same time, an american remake of Ruben Östlund ”Tourist” where Hivju was awarded a Guldbagge award 2015 for best actor in a supporting role. Even if Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus do the leads, so is Kristofer Hivju also on a corner.
” I’m with as a hommage to the previous movie, you could say.
