How you guys doing today?
Thank you.
Yeah, we're good.
How are you? Yeah, very good.
I've just come off episode four of your show, so it's very easy
to see such smiley, happy faces because it's such an intense show.
Thank you.
And you're in for a ride for the next four episodes.
I'm going to strapping myself in.
I'm so excited.
How does it feel bringing Furia to a wider audience?
Yeah, I think that's
It seems like the best way to go for this show, really.
I mean, we've been talking a lot about this and
and of course, this this show starts in Norway,
you know, with the spectacular nature and that we have up here.
And very quickly moves to the heart of Europe, you know, and
and in many ways, maybe you will see it as an American show. But
really it is
very much also connected to the U.S.
and what happens there.
And I think we're all all in this together, really.
So hopefully it will
make sense also for you.
And I think it's the world is so small now.
It's like it's almost it's difficult to separate the parts from each other
because of the of the Internet and everything that happens there.
Absolutely.
What a great, great answer.
I don't know if I could start
talking to you Ine, about Ragna because she's such a phenomenal character.
How do you begin to get into these different layers
of her?
Like, I was very early on
and obviously this was some of the things that attracted me to doing this
because it's rare that you get to do all these different layers
and that she actually like she's doing all these things
on different layers all the time. So
there is this
kind of personal trauma connected to our national trauma.
So very early on, I really connected to these
to this kind of personal destroyed... or this very
she she kind of has nothing, nothing to lose.
And she goes so far that she's almost becoming
an extremism or an extremist herself.
So I find it really fascinating to to to do this character that goes that far
and also to
and trying to.
And I also got really connected to this ideological
kind of fight that she does because very early on we talked about this
being a story of sorrow and revenge and rage
and that and
but it's also kind of a
and a fight for the good.
And how far will you go in order to do good at the end?
And will you lose lose yourself on the way there?
Absolutely.
How hard is how challenging with even looking to the far right
racist elements that take place across Europe
and that part of her character, even though it is like you said,
she's performing, it is sort of becomes ingrained with her as well.
Yeah, it was it was not a very
bright period
to do the research for this character because
and because I also got aware of all these things that I like.
I'm not looking at these things in my everyday life.
And then you suddenly notice this whole underworld of themes
and really, really frightening tendencies and
but it was kind of interesting to see how that also kind of affected
my body and affected the way my character looks at the world.
And I wanted it to affect me in that way.
But it was
it was and is
not very helpful and bright this
this very
complex theme of radicalization and extremism.
But but it was really and
it was also one of the things that really draws me to this project.
It was that you as an actress, to be able to, you know,
you get to do this really interesting, really complex character
and it's a very exciting thriller, but it also has this target of
actually saying something about the society today or this time.
And, and, and the time we're living in
all across the world.
And so that felt very, very meaningful.
And and I think that that
that makes the job
worse.
More in a way. Yes.
And you do it incredibly well.
Very long answer there.
You're very good answer and you're very incredible in the role.
Well,
Pal - Asgeir has a much more clear agenda, I think.
But he also has similar history and like this past
that you're trying to uncover that always comes and stops him.
How is it tackling his character?
For sure.
It's a much more straight story in many ways, at least
what the parts of it
that we explore in this first season.
But of course, his his his
sort of goal is it's much more basic,
maybe the most basic goal you can have, you know, keep your child safe.
And and and
he has
got entangled in this
very difficult situation.
But he's not totally innocent when it comes to why they are in this
situation.
And so he has made some some serious mistakes in his past,
which you will uncover later, I think more of
when you watch it.
But, you know, amid the core of the character for me
is is very much the relationship he has with his daughter.
The two of them sort of and trying to find
that sort of heart of the story between
the two was very much
an important part of it for me.
That was my next question, because it's such a beautiful relationship
that you have.
How is it developing with that with the young actress?
She is great and it's it's always fascinating,
you know, when you have to work with a young actor and trying to find
that sort of intimate family space and then it's just the two of them.
So so they're really they really rely on each other and
and yeah, we just tried to explore it
and bring it in the hearts of it.
Really amazing.
And these two characters, Asgeir and Ragna, collide in a really great way.
Like it's really explosive, like second scene they have together
and it's so interesting to watch them
sort of work together and work against each other at the same time.
How is it developing this relationship together?
And it's it's become one of the kind
of standing public jokes in Norway now that me and Pal is working.
We're doing a lot together.
So people are now asking like, what is your
you guys, what is your next next projects?
But that's to me, it,
of course, is also a drawing point
when it was clear that Pal was considering
the other character, that's also like, okay,
if you're doing it, then I really want to do it.
And so so then we had
fewer scenes than what we hoped for together.
But now we also have a season two to build on.
But it's very
it's both very
safe to know that Pal is there and we can start on this
because we know each other and know how we work and we can lean on each other
and kind of go straight to something that we feel
like we can talk, like we can go straight to it when we work.
So that's also like when we have few scenes we can make
those scenes count as actors as well,
and that we were able to kind of
influence the script and influence how we wanted to interpret the scenes.
And the character stuff is also very enjoyable,
amazing. They are.
They are kind of two, two loner, two lonely fighters.
So there had to be a little kids, I think two lone wolves against.
Oh yeah,
and no.
And they don't trust kind of anyone,
but they have to trust each other because they
end up depending on each other.
And that's also a big step for both of them.
I think
that they, because of
their trauma, has learned just to depend on themselves.
You're amazing.
Well, you guys have been fantastic.
The show is incredible
and I can't wait for people to get as gripped into it as I am.
Good luck with the rest of the show and the rest of it.
It's been lovely talking with you today.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you so much, you guys.