I was terrified and I asked him thousands of questions, and he was so good at just telling me, “No, I just want you to give it a try.” The voice came out of he and I talking about the need to trust this character and believe in her. He said he doesn’t think Ava ever did love Caleb, but said you think otherwise and have a really intelligent answer for that. I even went and had sleep-overs with friends. Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. I love being in front of a camera, but as soon as I have to do public speaking… I’m like [makes a freaking out noise]. ‘I was terrified waking up every day,’ she says. Her parents have read every script that she has ever been interested in. Check out our interview below, where we talk about how important and timely THE DANISH GIRL is in support of the transgender community, how she first met Eddie Redmayne, and, of course, … It’s a deft, thought-provoking piece of filmmaking … New 'X-Men: Apocalypse' Images Reveal The Four Horsemen in Action, 'Deadpool': Brianna Hildebrand on Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Ryan Reynolds, and More.

What was it like to see yourself like that? While there, Swedish actress Alicia Vikander talked about the experience of going from watching the Oscars on TV in her native Sweden to being an Actress in a Supporting Role nominee (for The Danish Girl), the discipline she has from her background in dance, how impressed she was with the CGI in Ex Machina, finding Ava’s voice, the shocking ending, Gerda’s range of emotions, the importance of the love story between Gerda and Lili (Eddie Redmayne), her dream project, the icon she’d like to play, and the movie that really stood out for her in 2015. Many times, I found myself asking and hoping that I would be as supportive as her character, Gerda. She plays a robot called Ava. She had acted on stage as a child at the Gothenburg Opera House – in The Sound of Music and Les Misérables – but for a long time her main aim was to make it to principal dancer.

The brilliant thing about the script and the film was that, depending on if you believe that this thing has a consciousness or not, it becomes a very different ending.

Is science close to the first conscious robot. I was so jealous because he had been around just eating for two months, finding “inspiration.” I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is my new favorite [job]!’ Sadly, I just snuck around.

I love that Ava opens up for him.

I would argue that the title, THE DANISH GIRL, could just as easily be referring to Gerda as it is Lili.

The sudden demand for Vikander hasn’t come entirely out of the blue.

When I read the script for the first time, one scene in particular affected me. Of course, I got physical awareness, I hope, and maybe some self-discipline. Her mother is a stage actress and her father is a psychiatrist.

Lauren V: Can you talk about the timeliness of this movie?

It’s amazing how he transitioned from his Oscar-winning role as Stephen Hawking in last year’s THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING to playing Lili Wegener within a matter of months. "And [I've] been there, doing the work.

I had two days. Alicia Vikander will make a very good movie star. You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it’s broader with bigger emotions. If you see a film about a girl trapped in a box and being looked at, your moral views change a lot from that perspective.

Alex Garland’s Ex Machina is slowly emerging as a sleeper sci-fi hit, and for good reason. Lauren V: Congratulations on this movie! ‘He told me, “You need to do this film.” ’ She may be close to her parents and rate their judgment about her work, but Vikander is very independent. He’s the best’ I walked in and I was SO nervous.

It was in an old house, beautiful, with wooden floors, but it was basically a big closet.

Alicia: Really? ‘I am quite happy that I got the time to go deep into my work and at the same time see what the industry is like,’ she says. ‘[Alicia] launched herself on to the set with a fearless courage and for someone to do that in a foreign language it is remarkable,’ he says. Sign up for our Celebrity & Entertainment newsletter. That makes you treasure it. I have heard that too, but I’m not aware because when I read the script it had that scene. Logan Browning Calls Dear White People's Last Season an "Ode" to Black Renaissance, and I'm Ready. !” That was the first time we had met, and I was like, “Thank God, me too!” We took hands and it was a bit of an icebreaker. I really wanted this part.’, She says that her dancing definitely helped her with that performance, and Garland agrees.

It is utterly worth it. Somewhere in her she is hard as nails.’. ‘My dad read The Danish Girl and fell in love with it,’ she explains. It’s such a great role for you, with many emotional scenes.

‘I thought she was amazing in that,’ he tells me on the phone a few days before I meet her. Click the button below and wait for a message from our Facebook bot in Messenger! Your voice is so cool and unaffected. Tom read it maybe seven years ago. 8 hours ago, by Murphy Moroney

Vikander had returned a few days earlier from an intense three-month shoot in Australia and New Zealand with Michael Fassbender (they are rumoured to be dating) for The Light Between Oceans, Derek Cianfrance’s adaptation of the ML Stedman novel about a lighthouse keeper and his wife who rescue a baby from a lifeboat and raise it as their own. We chose to focus on it, but it was already there. I’m the newbie; I’ve only been on it for less than two years. We met up in the morning and watched it. ‘I used to cry when my mum wouldn’t take me,’ she says. Alicia: It’s interesting because now that we have done press, there are a lot of journalists that have brought this up. I had finished that and was about to start THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, Derek Cianfrance’s film. Eddie has been on it maybe four years. Thank you so much. I have also noticed with journalists I meet, just a few months ago, they were like, ‘I don’t know how to put this to words.’ Already now, I don’t meet that as much. She says she got the best of both worlds, growing up as an only child with her mother, then being surrounded by a big family when she went to her father’s house every second week. Please select the topics you're interested in: Would you like to turn on POPSUGAR desktop notifications to get breaking news ASAP? ‘That freaked me out,’ she says, laughing. ‘I fell in love with Vera.

ALICIA VIKANDER: Yeah, but it took me a few years to convince my mum that I could get up at 3 am to watch it. Lauren V: You didn’t even have scenes where you had food, did you?

He did a screening and I went to the screening and met him. Other people tell me that things are going to change. 15 hours ago. ", by Yerin Kim ‘We lived in a flat with rats; four girls sharing two single beds,’ she says. Christina reports from a recent interview with Alicia Vikander, wherein the actress discussed Ex Machina, The Danish Girl, her dream project, and much more. Check out our interview below, where we talk about how important and timely THE DANISH GIRL is in support of the transgender community, how she first met Eddie Redmayne, and, of course, her performance in EX-MACHINA! Before that she spent two months in Britain filming Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of Tulip Fever with Christoph Waltz.

‘The area was great, but the flat was the dirtiest bachelorette pad! The film was nominated for best foreign language film at both the Golden Globes and the Oscars in 2013, and Vikander was shortlisted for the Bafta rising star award. humanoid Ava in Ex Machina and as Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl. She may not have been there much in the past 12 months, but Vikander bought her first flat, in north London, in the autumn of 2013. I even had a minibar because it didn’t have a fridge.

But, of course, in the end I need to be the one knowing more about the character. VIKANDER: I find all parts very difficult, in different ways. You take that on and by the end we let it go.

‘This year I have only been there three days and I won’t return for very long at Christmas.’ She did her flat up while she was filming Guy Ritchie’s The Man from UNCLE, drawing up plans for the kitchen and bathroom in her trailer when she had breaks, and arranging for her builders to come round at 4.30am in the morning. ‘The crew helped me between 2am and 5am after we had finished for that day. June 9, 2015 by Allie Merriam.

It was like half a room with a tiny kitchenette. As you can tell from the interview below, Lauren V and I are HUGE fans of Alicia Vikander.

I turned around and Eddie was like, “Are you nervous? I was surprised (to get the role). I kind of did, myself, while acting it… changing what I felt and thought. We didn’t know we were going to meet a few months later for [THE DANISH GIRL] reading.

I didn’t look really cool in the outfit, I must say, so both of us needed to be reminded of what I was going to look like, hopefully, by the end. There will be no escaping Alicia Vikander in 2015: there are no fewer than eight films scheduled for release this year in which the 26-year-old Swedish actress has substantial roles. It’s such an interesting film.

We spoke about her mother and their relationship and me taking on this role.’, Testament of Youth is the story of a girl, rebellious and wise beyond her years, who has ambitions to go to university and to be a writer, but whose life is catastrophically changed by the war and the personal losses she suffers.

How did Gerda in The Danish Girl rank in degree of difficulty, in the range of intense emotions that you had to play in one part?

We had a big pile of clothes in the middle of the room and we just shared everything.’ She is now rumoured to be the next brand ambassador for Louis Vuitton, which should mean she need no longer worry about borrowing clothes. I think it’s something I bring unconsciously to most parts. Vikander: So being a bit more perfect, being something a bit more human, almost like the 2.0 human is Ava, and that made her different from us. We actually got the chance to interview him for THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING.

They split up when she was five months old, but remain good friends. Alicia: No, I was walking backstage like, ‘Look at these pans!’ I got really into the pans. ‘I lived in a tiny flat. Vikander portrays Williams’s mother, Vera Brittain, in the film, which is based on Brittain’s First World War memoir of the same name. The movie won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects, and, that same year, Vikander won her first Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her acclaimed performance in … Everything was on the page. I love that people saw it very, very differently.

How did you achieve that throughout filming?