-How are you?
-I'm very well, thanks. How are you?
-Good. I'm very happy to have you here.
We're big fans of "The Crown" here,
and we kind of completed the trifecta,
because we had Matt Smith here, who was Prince Philip.
We had Vanessa Kirby, who was Margaret, and now we have you.
So, we're very -- very happy to complete the set.
-The whole set. -The whole set.
-Whole set of royals.
-And now you are not in the next season of "The Crown"
because you're being replaced by Olivia Colman,
who is another fantastic actress.
Did you take anything when you left?
It seemed like that's a set where --
a lot of good stuff to steal.
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-Yeah, there'd be loads of good stuff to steal,
but they keep it under --- they keep it under lock and key.
I mean, they need it all, as well.
So they'd know who'd taken it. It would be pretty obvious.
-Yeah, that's true.
When one cast leaves and another one comes in,
they have a lot of suspects. -I deny everything.
I have nothing.
-Do you miss it?
Do you miss playing someone of that stature?
It must have been nice to be called Queen all the time.
-No one ever called me Queen.
-Yeah, I guess that's a good point as I'm thinking about it.
-Walked over, "Hello, Queen." -Yeah, exactly.
"Oh, Queen, we got trouble again."
-"Nice to see you today, Queen."
That'd be great if they did.
-Yeah, they should have done that.
-Yeah. No. They never did. They never called me Queen.
But I don't miss the stature of the part, but I miss the people.
-Yeah. I imagine it's very hard to leave a show like that.
I will say, you know, any actor would have a fear of,
"Oh, I hope I don't get typecast in roles like this."
You've certainly shook that off right away
by going from the Queen to Lisbeth Salander in this film.
-Yeah.
Or it makes me look like I've got psychological problems.
-Oh, yeah.
Oh, I hadn't even thought of that.
That's right. So, it might be that, as well.
But definitely far more leather in "Girl With --"
Far more leather and I'm thinking more tattoos
than "The Crown."
-I mean, I don't know.
You never know what goes on from the neck down with the Queen.
-That's right.
-She could be hiding an awful lot of tats.
-That would be a fun thing to find out.
-Wouldn't it? -Yeah.
-How could we find that out?
-I don't know.
I guess -- I guess the reality is, if you haven't found it out,
none of us are going to find it out.
'Cause you probably did more research than I did,
and if you never came across the tattoo part.
-I hope so.
-But I would think the Queen,
if the Queen had a bunch of tattoos --
and again, this is just me blue-skying and dreaming.
-Okay, let's do this. -I wish it was some kind of map.
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-Over her whole body or --
-Yeah, like, just every part of her
that you can't see in clothes,
there's, like, some sort of map that's very key to the --
-Like a treasure map? -Yeah.
I mean, she's a queen and so, you know, they put it on her.
I don't know. When's it okay to --
Well, no. She's a royal.
So, it might not have been up to her.
They might have been like,
"Let's get this map on this baby, pronto."
Again, I don't know if this is true or not.
-I'd much prefer if she had, like, Prince Philip on one arm,
a corgi on the other.
-A corgi, yeah.
-Her handbag just --
-Yeah, but, like, not just a corgi.
Like, corgi for life.
-All the corgis she's had.
She'd have a sleeve of all the corgis she'd had.
-Oh, right cause they don't -- I mean, this is a spoiler,
but all those corgis haven't lived as long as she has.
She's gone through a bunch of them.
-No, no. She's gone through loads.
-She's gone through loads of corgis.
-Yes, there's a really high corgi turnover.
-Yeah.
They say, you know, when you're a corgi
and, you know, you're at the -- They go, "Oh, my God.
This is life of the corgi."
And they go, "Yeah, we don't last that long."
-Yeah.
-Was it fun to -- Lisbeth --
Obviously this is a continuation of this story.
Was that -- Were these books -- books you were familiar with?
-Yeah, well, I'd read -- I hadn't read the fourth book.
I hadn't read "Girl in the Spider's Web."
I'd read the "Millennium" series when they first came out.
-And more -- far more fighting than "The Crown,"
a lot more stunts. -Yeah, yeah.
-It was my only criticism of you in "The Crown."
There were almost no stunts and fights.
-I know. Yeah, I didn't do any.
-You didn't do any stunts? Did you do stunts in this one?
-Yes. -And did you enjoy it?
Was it something you thought was important?
Did you think it would be thrilling?
-I wouldn't say it was thrilling.
I mean, you sort of try and approach it as a professional
and not going, "Yeah, I'm bloodthirsty.
I can't wait to fake-punch people in the face."
-Yeah.
-But there is an element that's quite fun.
-Yeah. I would only imagine.
Plus you're working with people
who are excellent at not hurting you.
-Yes. -Yeah.
I would say, like, if you're a stunt person
whose job is to fight you in that film,
they really have a hands-off policy, probably.
-Oh, yeah, yeah. They know what they're doing.
-Yeah, whereas you're probably just throwing roundhouses
and hitting them. -Oh, yeah.
-Left and right.
-Just, you know, uppercuts and all sorts.
-This was filmed in Stockholm and Berlin in the winter.
Those are wonderful cities.
I've never been there in the winter.
They seem very cold and gray.
-Yes. -Yeah.
-I mean, cold more than gray.
They have some beautiful, crisp mornings.
But, yeah, like subzero, like, freezing, freezing cold.
-And, you know, there are a lot of --
See, I mean, again, a lot of leather,
a lot of helmets, a lot of motorcycles.
I would imagine, I mean, you're not riding the motorcycles,
but you were not in a lot of parkas in this film.
-You must have been cold a lot.
-I was cold a lot there. I definitely vary in size.
I tried to put as many thermal layers underneath
as humanly possible,
so sometimes I'm a bit like a sausage
and some of my leather outfits are bursting at the seams.
-There are scenes where you can tell
you can't really move your arm, yeah.
You're like, "We got to go over here."
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-But -- But yeah.
-How would you even describe the hairstyle of the character?
-It was mainly a bowl cut on top,
and then underneath it was shaved.
It was a bit of a fringe. I like to mix it up.
Sometimes it was a Mohawk. -Yeah.
There we kind of looked at, like, similar haircuts
that had that sort of Mohawk-y, fauxhawk-y feeling.
-Very similar to Rihanna.
-Yeah, then we got -- -Yeah, and Tilda.
-And then this is Pink with a little --
That's, like, a pointy fauxhawk.
-That was quite -- Yeah. There's more on the sides.
-Yeah. And then there's that.
-That's the one. -Yeah, that's the one.
-That's almost identical. -I feel like it was, maybe.
And then people do always say, "Oh, my God.
You would make a great Lisbeth Salander,"
to me all the time.
I was happy for you that you got it.
I was happy for you.
-That's really kind, 'cause I first said,
"Are sure you don't want Seth to do it?"
-That's so kind.
I had a feeling you were a nice person.
So thank you saying for that.