Congratulations on such an incredible show.
It's so gripping.
I'm on episode three and I just I can't get enough of it.
It is so great this is such an intriguing character
who has to keep so much of himself guarded.
How do you even begin to unpack this, this role,
his history and his life?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, there's he definitely has an interesting backstory.
That was and
he came from there
through, the island, and then he left for reasons of his backstory.
And you see glimmers of that when he comes back, you know, But
mainly mainly you begin to.
Yeah, well, the story, the scenes, you know, and
we're there with the director and with the with the executive producer
and also the writer talking your and
because
sometimes backstory is just backstory.
That's for the writer to get in
touch with these characters and for my part is like, what's in the scene?
What are we telling?
You know, where do we go next?
Stuff like that.
So it's quite often is
quite often this was more sort of
office work. You know, we sit by and table.
They figure out the techniques of how to go from one scene to the other.
You know, what do we tell what don't entail?
I know his backstory was a little more explicit
in the scripts, you know, but as it got,
you know, put together, it was it was, too,
because he has a rough backstory.
You know, he was into all kinds of things in terms of crime and no end.
But it just
it just didn't sit well with all the other things that happened to us.
So they toned it down to
to what it is now, you know, And I think it's a good
that was a good challenge, you know, but maybe for the second season,
if there will be a second season, I know they're working on it.
If you can get to explore a bit of his
is a darker side because it definitely was a darker side.
You know, it's told a little bit when he has an argument
with his brother, you know, and and also with
Ragnar
Olaf Johannessen who plays that.
So yeah, there's definitely more to dig into for sure.
Absolutely.
My next question is about researching into journalism, but
it sounds like you did that in the process of finding this character,
doing your own research,
and learning a bit more about what goes into investigative journalism.
To be quite honest, I didn't
sit too much on that.
And not not, not really, but mainly because
I was coming from one job and right into this, you know, So
I didn't have a lot of time to actually go into that and
it's sometimes, you know, it's
you just never know when it's useful or not, you know?
But I would say and
I work so much, you know, so it's hard for me to do,
you know, you know, years and years and months and months of research
of all kinds of things, you know, because I never have time for it. So
but I didn't think here just for the journalism part of it,
I didn't think it was crazy necessarily to to play the part
or to play to play that, you know, and that just me being
just trying to find an excuse for not doing it.
But I didn't think it was in my in the way, you know, to be honest,
I didn't think and I didn't think it needed to,
you know, I don't I mean, I mean, is that an answer?
You know? Yeah, that's a great answer.
What I really like about initially to begin with is how he just tries
to keep his relationship to the victim a secret and how that begins to affect him
as he's trying to piece together what happened to her.
How does that affect him?
Because it really like he struggles with his grief as well.
Yeah, well, he left.
He left the Faroe Islands when he was
when he was younger, like this is 30 years ago.
And she wasn't even born.
He didn't know he had a daughter.
And and of course, coming back is not his first choice.
It was by force, you know. It was.
And so I think he just he wants basically just to
get the hell out of Dodge again, you know.
But then as things starts to unravel and his old friend slash enemy Ragnar
and of course that she dies you know and then
and also being a journalist and you know
investing investigating journalists, investigative ideas and investigative hard
investigative journalists, you know, that of course, goes
completely hand in hand, you know, and, you know, try it
for some redemption,
I guess, as well, you know, And then,
you know, coming to terms with why he left
and and stuff, you know, So
I know they're
there exploring that.
In the second season... I've read the pilot for the second season
and I read and I hope they I hope they can find
both the time and the money to do that because there's a bit
more of this character that comes alive, so to speak.
Amazing.
Yeah, I'd be looking forward to a season season two with Yeah,
lots more to explore.
Yeah, I really liked the scene in the first episode that really got me.
Really, I was holding on the show was the moment where he finds the body.
How was it filming that scene?
Because obviously it's just such a powerful moment.
What?
Yeah, what is cool about it?
And it was
No, but yeah, I mean it's of course you have to,
as an actor, produce something, you know, because it's grief, it's
bewilderment, it's everything, you know.
But and there's the technical
aspect of it, of carrying this dead weight in the water.
So close, so with water.
And as you of course, as you
carry her in the water, you know, the water helps her to to the offload.
But as she gets up,
then then you have to carry her.
And then I have to gracefully put it
out on the beach, you know, And I realized I should have worked out more.
You know what it is.
So we had to do it a few times. I need to find out.
It's also a technical things, so we need to find another technique of doing it.
But that was that was a difficult bit is to track the weight
is the pure weight of of of this woman.
It wasn't that it wasn't was much her it was also the clothes and it's kind of
it's like it's it's you know and then as you walk
in the water in the bottom, the surface
and not the surface the sandy stuff and are pebbles in the ship, you know,
you know, the minute you start to, you know,
because, you know, it's like fixing your hair and a scene becomes private.
You know, you don't do that unless it's part of the of the
the character that the figures is there in a specific way.
But this is me struggling, you know.
So you want to get a you want to find a way to have it
be the character still, you know, and the drama and all that.
You know, it's like dogs, dogs and, you know,
little kids do what they do, you know.
But it takes you out of the of the drama.
And also so it became a little technical and the environment didn't help you.
You know, on the contrary, it was sort of working against you.
I think we I'm glad to do that.
You mentioned this and it caught you because we we did it right.
Obviously, by the end was
as because you always have to keep your face as you're carrying it.
You've got to keep a face that the audience knows who she is to him.
But like no one else in that scene does not have it.
You know, it's
I have a problem with with the sun because I'm fair.
My blue eyes in the sun.
I was I was squint all the time, which is a problem
because it sinks your your facial acting away.
Is it because it becomes a squint?
Somebody's squinting, you know.
You know, And
so this is kind of the same, you know, struggling, just guy struggling, you know.
And it's really it's useful, you know.
So you got to you know, we've to pretend that
or work out more, you know, be stronger, you know, get body double or something.
You know,
it's it's
it's hard sometimes in or to to work against the
the elements you know because
because quite often they're not helping you
just to you know like a an acrobat
or dancers and you know there's the years and years and years and years.
So easy when they do it. But it's the years and years
is the training that makes it look easy, you know.
So anyway, but
but yeah, go round.
Yeah. It's a great scene.
And what else I like about this show is the, the investigation
that clashes with the, with Carla, the detective, who's
sort of working on the murder and also like against it as well.
So what was it like working with this character Maria, on, on this relationship?
I know her from back in the day, you know, in my whole professional life.
And so that was that was good in that she's just
she has a great character because obviously you've seen it.
All right.
I'm at...
Episode four is where I'm at.
Yeah, but she has.
Well, I wouldn't spoil it all, but she's got more and she's
she has problems, you know, family problems with that murder, you know.
So she is she has to play the act as a as a as a policewoman.
You know as well as,
you know, pretending not to solve a crime, you know.
So it's a great character for her.
And I see that.
I think there's something going on with her.
Yeah.
So it's
amazing and it works so well.
This is such an incredible show.
So congratulations to you both. One on that.
Unfortunately, that's all I have time for.
Right.
But it's been lovely speaking with you today
and enjoy the rest of your day and good luck and hopefully for season two.
I can't wait.
Finish the season.
Do you know they're working hard on it? They're working on it.
Amazing.
Well, thank you so much. Take care.