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I have several VERY long radio interview translations that I will be posting tomorrow! :)
Tuva Novotny: "I've had my share of slaps" (3 May 2022)
Photo: Rickard L Eriksson
SPG has met with film star Tuva Novotny in a conversation about togetherness, strong integrity and why Hollywood is not attractive.
It has been over a decade since Tuva Novotny was affected by them: thoughts about the complex phenomenon called love in general, togetherness in particular. Perhaps because at that time she herself had begun to experience its different sides.
TN: I probably came into it a little faster than people generally do in Stockholm today. I really thought the subject was so exciting then, but it is probably more common to start thinking about this life structure when you are like I am now, in your forties.
It is early morning and Copenhagen is hit by April weather. Tuva Novotny, who has called the city home for 20 years, notes that it is βabsolutely sick, it never snows here!β before continuing to talk about the background to her new film Diorama:
TN: At the same time, I saw a documentary and found out that you can have a gene that makes you more predisposed to infidelity and high-risk activities. I was completely taken by that knowledge. I started nerding out about the subject and really couldn't let it go.
The thoughts would lie dormant for a long time. In the meantime, Tuva Novotny would make her directorial debut with the Norwegian feature film Blind Spot, about a teenage girl's severe mental illness, and then make a film of Fredrik Backman's bestseller - about how a 60-year-old woman leaves her long marriage - in Britt-Marie Was Here. It wasn't until now that the dramatic comedy come where Tuva Novotny examines the human thirst for coupling by depicting how a couple goes from being passionately in love to standing on the precipice of marital ruin many years and three children later.
TN: What I'm investigating is probably actually comfort. I look for problems that I don't understand, try to solve them and become a little wiser from it. To get comfort.
So what should you do when your relationship is about to crash?
TN: I think it's important to ask yourself why it is the way it is. I'm not sure that everyone feels good in the structures we establish ourselves in. Maybe just because we don't reflect on them. Just talking about it gives a stronger sense of self and identity in the relationship. I think there are many who don't even think about it and then suddenly you stand there and think: what happened?
She herself goes to a "damn good psychologist".
TN: It's a good outlet for things that are stuck in the system. Disconnecting is also a survival thing for me. I place great importance on reflection, contemplation and existential searching, she says and describes herself as an existentialist.
To withdraw, to create air and space in everyday life to think and to protect one's private life is something Tuva Novotny cares about. It's been in her mind ever since she came to Stockholm from the small town of Γ mot in VΓ€rmland at the age of 16 and got her first big role, in the TV series Skilda VΓ€rldar.
TN: I probably saw it as a safari at the time. I thought it was exciting, but I wasn't at all sure if it was something I wanted to do in the long run.
The path from there could have been marked out. But Tuva Novotny decided early on to go her own way. Today she has around sixty acting roles under her belt, in everything from Swedish romantic comedies to big Hollywood dramas. She has been seen considerably less in the media.
TN: Some of the choices I have made have been about integrity and my own will, while others certainly have to do with fear. Because the industry is terribly scary in some respects, especially when I entered it, in the 90s.
In what way?
TN: There was an unreflected idea that success is being seen and heard, and doing it in a certain way. Even more so as a woman and a young person. I didn't do many interviews when I was younger either, but the aesthetics and the way you were addressed were incredibly belittling really. No one was deliberately condescending, but words like self-reflection and integrity weren't that popular back then.
She pauses for a moment.
TN: For someone like me, who came from the forest and built things with pine cones, it was scary to lose myself in that. I think part of my selectivity in life has been about fear, which I'm still working on dealing with.
For several years, rumors have been circulating that Tuva Novotny is in a relationship with actor Alexander SkarsgΓ₯rd, something they both have chosen not to comment on. However, the fact that she now meets us heavily pregnant is a fact that is difficult to avoid. But she is clear that she doesn't talk about her private life.
TN: I'm not trying to be dogmatic, but it's clear that it colors you if you've experienced feeling exposed in media contexts. I don't want to make myself available for that kind of exposure. So of course it's also a protective mechanism that I don't talk about my private life. For me, it's all about creating a conversation about what I do, film is my way of communicating. And personally, I don't always find it interesting to be involved in other people's private lives.
How do you deal with writing about you?
TN: It's clear that it can be annoying and that it's unpleasant, I don't want my family and friends to be affected. But you just have to put the lid on it.
She twists her long hair while answering the questions confidently. Where does that security come from?
TN: Oh, I also have my sleepless nights and slaps in life, but I try to be as well equipped as I can to handle them. I need exercise, time to think and do things other than work. And I don't need to look at social media. That discipline around my well-being is important to me.
During the filming of Diorama, she demanded that no one in the team work more than eight hours a day and have zero communication after work hours.
TN: I was keen to keep those boundaries. I think it's so important that we recover. There doesn't have to be a self-destructive effect for what we create to be good, quite the opposite!
In the star-studded film, which stars Sverrir Gudnason, Peter JΓΆback, Marika Lagercrantz and Gustav Lindh, David Dencik and Pia Tjelta play the main roles and Sarah Dawn Finer, the supporting role.
TN: At least half the cast are good friends: Sverrir and I grew up together, David and I have known each other since we were teenagers. Pia and Sarah are two of my closest friends. It created a super safe climate for me to work in, which was so nice.
What experience do you have with you from your international jobs, such as Eat Pray Love?
TN: That you can disappear into a hole and come out two months later. There is something cool and incredibly exciting about it, but also extremely draining. After Eat Pray Love, I wasn't super keen on working in Hollywood anymore. Today I think it's fun to be able to put my foot down there sometimes, most recently with Annihilation.
And this fall Tuva Novotny can be seen in Lars von Trier's Kingdom, when she's not sitting in her room writing new film scripts, both for her own projects and those of others.
TN: In ten years, I'll probably only be sitting and writing if I know myself, but I have to try to push myself out into the world too. It'll be too lonely otherwise, she smiles before setting out into a Copenhagen that has begun to be stained by small streaks of spring sun.
Tuva Novotny's Style Journey (20 October 2024)
By Linus Brannstrom
Tuva Novotny has gone her own way. And that also applies to her clothes β Femina has taken a look at her style journey, from her breakthrough in the late 90s to today.
She was only a teenager when she got the role of Nora inΒ Different WorldsΒ in 1996. But Tuva Novotny had already been preparing for an acting career for many years β even as a small child, she directed her younger siblings, her parents have said.
Tuva Novotny was born in Stockholm but the family moved to Γ mot in VΓ€rmland when she was just a few years old. She herself has described it as a green wave thing and both parents have had artistic careers β father David a director and mother Barbro an actress and artist.
β My family is as far from capitalism and career thinking as you can get. It was more, bang! Stanislavskij on the table. But above all, they have supported me in my choice of profession. They have pushed and cherished me, given me both criticism and encouragement, she told Expressen early in her career.
βI have seen fame as an interventionβ
From her breakthrough in the soap opera, Tuva Novotny has gone on to become one of our most acclaimed actresses β and now she is also a director. Most recently, she has appeared in the acclaimed seriesΒ Allt och EvaΒ .
At the same time, she has been highlighted as extremely private and a kind of new Greta Garbo. For many years, she has lived in Denmark while she has basically never been seen at celebrity parties β apart from her own film premieres β and in interviews she has never spoken about her private life.
β I have seen fame as an intervention. I think it seems incredibly difficult to have a public life on social media. God, what work it must take, Tuva Novotny has told CafΓ©.
Wanted to create debate about appearance fixation
There has been a lot of talk about her private life lately. The reason for this is that she had her third child the other year, the first with her love Alexander SkarsgΓ₯rd. But even though they are two of Sweden's most famous actors, they managed to keep their relationship secret for a long time before the child.
β Very simple. You don't move around in public, you're not on social media and you don't talk about your private life, Tuva Novotny told CafΓ©.
When the same magazine, which then had a slightly different character, named Tuva Novotny Sweden's sexiest woman in 2000, she had herself photographed in jeans and a sweater, without makeup.
β I tried to create a debate about the fixation on appearance. Naively perhaps. But I did what I could, she told Expressen a few years later.
Check out Tuva Novotny's style journey through the years
That attitude has since been noticeable throughout her career. Over the years, she has often appeared in washed-out t-shirts and on the red carpet she has more often been seen in a suit than a dress. Check out Tuva Novotny's style journey in the photos below.
Just curious but how different are swedish and norwegian? Like if you speak one can you understand the other?
Norwegian, Swedish & Danish are all very similar. For the most part we can all understand each other without much effort, at least enough to get by. I think the main difference is pronouncing and small spelling changes.
Example:
English: Hello
Norwegian: Hei (pronounced like English βHiβ)
Swedish: Hej (pronounced like English βHeyβ)
Danish: Hej (pronounced like English βHiβ same as Norwegian even though it is spelled the Swedish way)
Personally I think Norwegian is the nicest but Iβm definitely biased π π³π΄
enjoy your holiday, friend!!!
can I ask, were you originally a fan of tuva's or did you find her through alex?π
Thank you! Well, Iβm a millennial so True Blood was an obsession of mine for many years. . . π
But I have also grown up with many of Tuvaβs projects since the 90βs so Iβve always known her and liked her work. She was more public in the 90βs but I think possibly after her stalker situation she retreated a lot so there wasnβt much to talk about by the time that social media became popular.
So yes, I knew her before Alex but I was an actual fan of Alex first.
Thank you for all your work translating articles!! This might be asking wayyy to much but if you happen to be like super bored one day would you consider translating some of Alidas interviews? I feel like people project on her so much but we dont actually know that much about her
Uffta! I donβt mind translating some of Alidaβs but to be honest Billβs fan scare me a bit more than Alexβs π
love your page! hopefully people are being nice to you cuz some fans can be nasty
Thank you very much! Yes, most people have been super kind more than I imagined when I started posting. There have been a couple comments/messages that were not as kind but I just delete and ignore them. I donβt think that Tuva would ever see my page, but her daughters are teenagers and I know that I would be super upset if I saw a lot strangers saying nasty things about my mom, so I try to respect that energy.
Hei! I will have more translations for everyone this weekend but for now I am enjoying being on my holiday. Thank you everyone, youβre all so kind π€βΊοΈπ₯Ή
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could you also translate old swedish interviews of alex?(love your page btw)
Thank you so very much! βΊοΈ
And of course! Are there any specifically youβd like to read? I can translate them at random like I have been doing mostly with Tuva but if you have some that youβd like I will prioritize them!
are you able to hear what they are talking abotu in this?
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Hmm. . . it's a bit difficult for me and I cannot hear Lily clear enough but I believe Alex said:
"Det bΓ€sta man kan gΓΆra Γ€r att fΓΆrsΓΆka vΓ€nja sig vid det." = The best thing you can do is try to get used to it.
I am assuming Lily mentioned being nervous based on the context but again, I cannot hear her clearly enough.
If anyone has better ears, please me know! π
TRANSLATED: Tuva Novotny on Guilt and Shame in Relationships (6 May 2022)
Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT
Per anonymous request I translated this radio interview with P1 Culture but I did skipped over the introduction and the part where they play a preview of Diorama for time.
[. . . INTRODUCTION . . .]
Interviewer: Hello Tuva Novotny!
TN: Hello hello!
Interviewer: You are the director of this movie Diorama which is a kind of an investigation of monogamy you could say. How did this idea come to you? That you wanted to make a movie about monogamy?
TN: First of all, I want to become a little wiser about what I thought was so damn difficult, like so many others. I read an article with the then mayor of Copenhagen who talked quite openly about his open relationship structure. It was like wow! Exciting. Different. Then a few years ago I thought, βwhy is it so damn different?β. There are probably many people who live ways we don't talk about. And then I start to think about how. What are the stigmas and norms we live under in the definition of monogamy? And can we start to lift the lid because maybe it's the definition itself that makes it difficult? Maybe it doesn't have to be that way. But like I said, I'm a geek, I read and get reports about what happens chemically, biologically in the body, in a relationship and can you adjust it? And then I thought I'm going to make a film about that and so on. So it ended up being a film. But really, it was just my own high-spirited pleasure.
Interviewer: But what was that like? What was it that you wanted to look at more closely?
TN: Well, but it was precisely that stigma, I think, that I experienced, for example, if you mention a separation, it is colored by some kind of negative thing, or just even feeling attraction to someone other than your partner, which is completely natural and normal. But instead of it being a natural topic of conversation, it is something extremely tabooed, which I think can lead to guilt and shame, questions in the relationship and so on. That is what interested me. What can you remove from the stigma and taboo from the relationship in order to still maybe hope for that lifelong relationship?
Interviewer: You take help from various researchers who participate in the films that talk about dopamine, and thrill-seeking genes. That's how you formulate it in the film. How did you choose to turn to these researchers when it came to talking about monogamy?
TN: I have used myself just like in my first film, Blindspot, and I have used help from other professional groups who know more about the topic that I am interested in and I will start discussing. Biology and biological monogamy I probably need some help to turn to. Partly then genetic researchers, neuropsychologists and so on and so on to both become wiser in the script work but also of course proofreading. And can you say that if we adjusted our oxytocin levels a little, maybe more people would maintain the attraction in the relationship, for example. Yes, you can say that. Great, then I will. I think it is quite nice that there are a lot of these almost clinical explanations for all that hard work. So for me it is a comfort to say, yes, it was just the dopamine and I did nothing wrong maybe.
Interviewer: It wasn'tΒ the relationship?
TN: No, no.
Interviewer: In the film, Frida and BjΓΆrn portray this couple, the different phases that exist in a relationship, and we'll listen to what it sounds like when BjΓΆrn, in revenge for Frida wanting to divorce,Β with a bicycle helmet on his head deliberately drives their car into a house.
[. . . PREVIEW . . .]
Interviewer: David Dencik and Pia Tjelta playing BjΓΆrn and Frida here. A little estranged. βI don't want anything from you,β says BjΓΆrn. Divorce implications.
TN: Yes.
Interviewer: There are lions, there are chickens and then there are voles who also go through different things emotionally in their relationships. This thing about comparing people and animals, what does it add to a story about monogamy and the relationship between two people?
TN: I would like to say that it arose as a bonus, because a lot of the research that exists on monogamy with field voles. There are fantastic studies, including The Forest Swimtest, where they investigate exactly what happens after a separation in the brain. And it turns out that field voles, who have experienced a separation, let themselves sink when they are placed in water, while field voles who live in a relationship, they swim for life. And when I discovered that there was so much fantastic research in that area, it was quite easy to use those animals in the portrayal in the film as well.
Interviewer: Is it true that you want to de-dramatize divorce?
TN: Yes, but not just divorce. I think the whole relationship. It doesnβt have to be so dramatic. It's quite normal to lose your mind for a while and you know that after that period it will be a bit boring, and that's okay too. And if you feel like leaving, thatβs okay, but wait a bit and see if it doesn't happen then a new phase will de-dramatize the whole relationship.
Interviewer: Why do you want to do that?
TN: I think it was a little hard for me to understand why it had to be so complicated and so difficult. But I also see around me that it concerns so many people. The different phases of the relationship affect you so much.
Interviewer: But why then, after you made this film, why do you think we form a couple?
TN: Yes, there I lean towards this pedalism thesis that it is about us standing up and starting to pick food from the trees and then it was easier to be two than more, because then one had to guard the other while they picked the food that didn't come for a few years and so on. It is quite simple. It is this way that I believe is quite fundamental in what we fill it with. That is what I am interested in discussing. Why must it be the Christian normative marriage structures said a few hundred years ago? Or can we actually fill it with anything? I think so.
Interviewer: Thank you so much for coming to P1 Culture and for your film Diorama. It's in theaters now.
TN: Thank you!
"The Legend of Tarzan" European Premiere in London - July 2016
One week ago - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway in Sydney.
βI'm looking forward to starting my studies at the University of Sydney. It will be exciting to become a student, and I'm looking forward to gaining new perspectives on both European and international politics. I'm sure that I will learn a lot, says the princess who is in Australia and ready to start studies at the University of Sydney.β
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Preikestolen aka Pulpit Rock, Norway
Every time I see a pic of this, I think about those obvious cracks.
And fear, this is going to make the news in the worst way someday.
A 604 meter rock slide to the fjord below.
Yeah...no...nope.