considering how often Rolf Lassgård shows up on the silver screen and the tv screen, it is difficult to believe that he’s been idle almost a year and a half. But after the success of ”A man called Ove” and the tv series ”the Hunters” has one of the country’s most active actors has devoted itself to be the grandfather, and to repaint the house in Skåne.
with great zeal. In ”My father Marianne”, in which he has starred together with Hedda Stiernstedt, play Lassgård priest Lasse, when he is approaching the 60th anniversary decides to come out as Marianne.
” this is a dream for me and because I have been idle for so long is the desire even greater, says Lassgård when we meet in Alingsås, where the recording just taken its beginning.
On the table in front of him is a bunch of flowers, which tells us that he has just this day fills 64 years.
free after Ester Roxbergs acclaimed autobiographical novel, ”My dad Ann-Christine” from 2014. In director Mårten Klingberg’s hands it becomes a dramakomedi, which at the same time want to touch and ask the important questions.
– To get out in this way is not just that the person will out, but to everyone around must relate to you. It also means that we, the audience are confronted with all our prejudices, ” says Lassgård.
Completely above, at to be dressed in women’s clothes, he is not, but Lassgård says that if the role in the musical Hairspray was more of a play with gender roles becomes a major challenge. In order to put themselves into the situation, he has not only scrutinised the book, but also met and held talks with the real Marianne, Ann-Christine Ruuth, who has generously shared their story and their thoughts.
” this is a process that does not look the same for all people. Ann-christine’s journey is one thing, and Marianne’s is different. It is also about the relationship between father and daughter, and the grieving process that her daughter goes through when she becomes a parent yet is left, though in a different guise, ” says Lassgård.
this can help those living with similar secrets to open. At the same time shows how difficult it can be for family members to accept a new situation.
“In a way, it can be simple to have the right opinions and to be free in the tank, but when you experience something emotional in the soul, then maybe it is not as easy anymore,” says Lassgård.
Hedda Stiernstedt plays Hanna in the movie. Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall/TT
Hedda Stiernstedt, who broke through wide of SVT-the success of ”Our time is now”, agree with it. She says that her character Hanna, a young journalist, in principle, to accept the situation she ends up in the but that it is still difficult emotionally. She wants to accept the change, but feel at the same time that her dad has become ”murdered,” and that another man come in and taken his place.
Hanna has very strong ideals, which she is in this emotional state is not really able to live up to. For me, this is also that life does not always turn out as planned and expected, but that there are new ways to be happy, ” says Stiernstedt, which in winter was nominated for dagens nyheter’s culture prize.
undergoing major changes, to accept oneself and the other. The story raises the issue of how well we know our parents. Stiernstedt says she in the day after some ”luskande” know more about her parents than she did before.
” But I don’t think that you really know their parents. Being a parent is incredibly self-sacrificing in many cases, and it is both touching and complicated when you realize all the that even the parents had chosen not to tell for one, says Stiernstedt.
Esther Roxbergs story and Ida Kjellins and Daniel Karlsson’s script appealed to her, partly because she is not tempted to do things that are easy. There should be a small fear in the picture, believes the 31-year-old, who dropped out of both the bungee jumping and parachute.
And so, thank the not no to film against Rolf Lassgård.
Feelgood is a genre that one might look a little bit over the shoulder, but, for me, means that you leave the theater a little bit warmer heart.
in the past made films like crossdressingkomedin ”Cockpit” and ”Offside” as well as a number of ”Beck”films, says that the script of the movie differs a lot from the book and that it is in his eyes basically is about a pretty ordinary story and a young adult woman’s relationship to her father – a relationship with its problems, as many can relate to.
” I had not interested me for this story if it would be narrow and exclusively addressed to persons who are trans. At the same time, I hope that people who are trans also feel that it is a nice film, ” he says and describes it as a film you should feel good.
– Feelgood is a genre that one might look a little bit over the shoulder, but, for me, means that you leave the theater a little bit warmer heart. One should not yield to that which is painful, but at the same time not to stay in the evighetslångt, ” says Klingberg.