#expressen

[vizzly-sama]

Jonas Gardell is complaining about Heartstopper being bad because it's written by a "heterosexual woman", when Alice Oseman is in fact Aro/Ace!

Please, check your facts before you write your articles. A simple googling will tell you that she's not straight...or do you think Aro/Ace-people are actually heterosexual?!

[b-skarsgard]

Bill Skarsgård: ”Jag menade vartenda ord jag skrev i det brevet”

Pennywise, The crow och nu senast Greve Orlok i ”Nosferatu”. Att Bill Skarsgård, 34, har en särskild dragning till mörkret borde vara oomtvi

That Bill Skarsgård, 34, has a special attraction to the dark should be indisputable, but what is it about him that the characters attach to?

- Maybe it's a bit like falling in love with someone, says the actor himself.

read the rest at the link or under the cut. (translated from swedish to english by browser)

In reality, Bill doesn't look the least bit diabolical. The hair is well styled in a wavy James Dean bangs and is matched for the day by a knitted white polo shirt with a luxurious glossy sheen. Overall, he rather exudes a mystique, a bit like a movie star from Hollywood's golden era.

Nevertheless, he has repeated in many international interviews that it is something in him that these characters are drawn to:

- The clearest way for me to formulate it is that I attract them, and they attract me.

- It is a special process to be chosen for a role at all. You have to be inspired, but also be right for the role. So you attract each other, says Bill, but adds:

- After all, I have done an incredible number of different types of characters in over thirty films. But since the biggest projects are in a certain direction, like "It", you become associated with it.

In "Nosferatu" you are unrecognizable. Do you like to completely dissolve into a character?

- In some way, that is always the ambition. I like to find a voice, a physical expression. Making "Clark" wasn't me in any way either, even though he looks more like me.

- The challenge is that it is me who expresses the character, while none of Bill must be there. Nothing of a 32-year-old guy from Södermalm can be found in a 400-year-old Transylvanian count.

You usually succeed. My son has a fear of clowns because of you. On the other hand, it has saved me many visits to Gröna Lund...

- Haha. Is it that bad? Clown phobia? But I apologize. One of my childhood friends got it from the previous "It".

- I don't think I've told anyone this, but when he married my cousin, who is like a sister to me, we organized a kidnapping attempt for the stag party where all his best friends were dressed up as clowns. It was the thing he was most afraid of in the whole world. Someone thought it was too shitty, and that he would break down. But it went well. Then I forced him to attend the premiere of "It", and now he is not afraid of clowns anymore.

Does exposure therapy work?

- Yes, that's a tip. Haha.

But "Nosferatu". Of course you were in the running as Hutter, but then the role went to Nicholas Hoult?

- I actually got it. Several years ago. Then the "Nosferatu" fell apart.

How did you react to the news that the role was no longer yours?

- I was broken.

- I would actually have been in Robert Egger's "The Northman" in the role of Gustav Lindh, Bill continues and then describes how pandemic-related circumstances led to a schedule conflict where he prioritized "Clark" and said no to Eggers.

- "Clark", which I helped develop and produce, felt to me personally as a bigger challenge.

- So I explained that I was sorry, but that it was like this. But I didn't know if he was offended.

- Then "Nosferatu" was on again, and he cast Nick and then Aaron (Taylor Johnson) as Harding. So then I wrote an honest and pretentious letter to Eggers with the title "Wisborg in flames".

It pays to be desperate?

- Yes, if the desperation is motivated by something that is true. I meant every word I wrote in that letter, and I think he felt it.

I interviewed your brother Alexander after "Northman". He described it as isolated. How was your Eggers trip?

- It was up and down. I was also very isolated. Self-isolating.

- I lived in a hotel suite in an 18th-century building where Mozart had lived, and you feel that he is sitting in the walls. I walked around this attic and went a little crazy.

- But there was a madness in Orlok that was worth facing. I've talked a lot about my technical methods, but it was also a psychological journey.

The relief after the recording

How has it been to leave Orlok?

- An enormous relief. You don't always feel that way, but the last day of filming was a really tough fucking day. Not performance-wise, but because it was twelve hours in that outfit, and the soles of my feet were the only thing on me that wasn't covered. It means that the body cannot breathe.

- I was close to fainting and had heat stroke. My heart just skipped a beat, and I started thinking about that gold-covered woman in "Goldfinger"…

Who would have been suffocated by the paint?

- Yes, that's not true. But I thought about it. So when I was done, I was so grateful to be free of this evil entity.

What's next for you?

- I'll be home for a couple of days, and then I'll go to Los Angeles and New York for the premieres there, and then home to celebrate Christmas.

The Skarsgård Christmas is supposed to be something really special?

- This year it is split. Everyone is married and has a partner, so you have to take it in turns, and this year it's just been that everyone is with their respective ones. But last year we ran Skarsgård Christmas, and now we will all see each other in the days in between, so then it will be Skarsgård Christmas!

[rebelandrichgirl]

Jonas Gardell is a Swedish comedian, author and was a gay activist in Sweden before the word even existed.

For whatever reason the Swedish embassy in Washington hosted the World pride meeting of the LGBT-republicans.

Jonas Gardell was there and reports from a “very odd” evening…

Apparently Trump is the only president in history who has ever done anything for the lgbtq-community.

And Melania is an angel who loves the gays…

There were no women and no trans people… Just gay men…

Of all the craziness going on everywhere right now this is just a very little craziness… But anyway…

In case anyone’s interested, I’m sure there are possibilities to get an automatic translation for this.

JONAS GARDELL: Trump-bögarna fick låna Sveriges ambassad

Svenska ambassaden i Washington DC upplät under World pride sin takterrass åt organiserade HBTQ-republikaner. Jonas Gardell rapporterar från

[andiatas]

Princess Madeleine substitutes for the King

On Friday, the King travels to Brazil on a private trip. Then Princess Madeleine gets to step in as a temporary substitute.

- As Princess Madeleine is still at home in Sweden, the task of temporary Head of State falls to her, says Margareta Thorgren, Director of the Information Department at the Royal Court.

Photo: Clément Morin/Kungl. Hovstaterna

On Friday, King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia go on a private trip to Brazil. The Crown Princess Couple, Victoria and Daniel, as well as the Prince Couple, Carl Philip and Sofia, with children, are also going on the trip.

- It is autumn break and a trip that has been planned for a long time to give the Queen an opportunity to show Brazil to, in this case, children and grandchildren, says Margareta Thorgren, Director of the Information Department at the Royal Court.

- The Queen will simultaneously carry out activities with Childhood and the King will carry out activities with the scouting movement, the World Scout Foundation, she continues.

Madeleine substitutes

The King is away for two weeks, between October 25 and November 8. In the meantime, Princess Madeleine is stepping into his place, as the news agency Siren was the first to report.

- As Princess Madeleine is still at home in Sweden, the task of temporary Head of State falls to her, says Margareta Thorgren.

Madeleine substitutes at the post for one week.

- The trip is carefully planned, which means that there are no tasks that the Head of State has that will be carried out during this time, says Thorgren.

Can travel home at short notice

Should something happen, however, the King can be called home at short notice, she emphasizes.

- The Royal Court is in constant contact with the King and should any event occur for which it is judged that the Head of State needs to be in Sweden, there is planning for that.

The following week, Crown Princess Victoria travels home and then replaces the King [as temporary Head of State] until he is back in Sweden again.

Translation and editing for clarity by me of an article by Albin Lindström for Expressen, published on Oct. 22, 2024, at 17:25 and updated on Oct. 23 at 05:34.

[at-the-end-of-days]

America allegedly backing out of future military exercises in Europe.

Wonder why, orange in chief.

US to stop participating in future military exercises in Europe, Swedish media reports

The United States has notified its allies that it does not plan to participate in military exercises held in Europe beyond those already sch

[emberc]

https://www.expressen.se/noje/kandisarnas-storslagna-nyar-sa-ska-de-fira/

Edvin is "skilled at the stove" 😁 Method acting?😂

"- Just this year, I'm going to take it easy and just have a little dinner with friends. I'm in charge of the food and I'm thinking a bit about whether I should make some kind of appetizer with scallops. Scoop on the delicacies of the sea.

Do you like to cook?

- Absolutely, I would still say that I am quite skilled at the stove."

I meannnnnnn.... can we say "yes chef"?

And let me still be a bit delulu about Nord! 😭

Thank you and @vanemelman <3

[thezeinterviews]

Expressen: Olena Zelenska: "He is my best friend"

Published 20 Aug 2023 at 23:56, updated 21 Aug at 06:14

Arne Lapidus

Olena Zelenska, wife of the President of Ukraine, talks in an emotional interview about how the family lives during the war - and how close she is to her husband Volodymyr.

- "He's my best friend, he has a fire inside him, and I believe in him 200 per cent," she says on TV4's 'Malou möter'.

Olena Zelenska and her husband, President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, work around the clock to defend and strengthen Ukraine in the war against the aggressor Russia.

During their short visit to Sweden, they experienced the Swedish summer idyll that stands in stark contrast to the suffering in their troubled homeland.

"Can't relax"

- When I sit here on the lawn, it feels peaceful, but unfortunately, it is only for a moment. Even if I get to experience nice moments, I don't allow myself to relax and feel happiness as long as there is a war in our country," Olena Zelenska tells interviewer Malou von Sivers on TV4's "Malou möter" on Sunday evening.

She talks about her commitment to children and women in Ukraine. About a four-year-old who has been raped, about women in a whole village who have been raped by Russian soldiers.

- More than 20,000 Ukrainian children have been kidnapped by Russia. The most terrible thing is that we do not know where they have been taken. We have no answers, we are fighting for the return of every single child," said Ms Zelenska.

- "I hope that we can continue to develop a platform at the international level to create the conditions to bring our children home," she says.

"We are together"

She explains that her own children, a daughter aged 19 and a son aged 10, are going through the same difficulties as their peers. And she is happy that the family lives together, that they have not moved abroad despite the fact that she and her husband were targeted by the Russian attack.

- "Our daughter has finished her first year at university, our son is looking forward to meeting his friends when school starts. I am happy that we live as a family, even if they don't see their father all the time, we are together," says Olena Zelenska in "Malou möter".

She praises her husband for his efforts both as a family man and as a leader of the country.

Honouring her husband

- My husband is my best friend. He is stubborn and confident, and that gives me great hope in these times. He has a fire inside him to keep going even if he is physically tired," she says:

- "I believe in him 200 per cent. Not only because I am his wife but because we have been working together for so many years. He is the one who takes responsibility and acts when no one else dares. We can count ourselves lucky to have such a person as President.

Thanking Sweden

Ms Zelenska also expressed her gratitude for Sweden's political and military support for Ukraine.

- "We feel the support of the Swedish people since the first day of this terrible war of invasion. We hope your support will continue, we need it very much," she said on 'Malou möter on TV4'.

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[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #105

The Swedish Chef's speaking mannerisms can be accredited to Jim Henson listening to a tape called "How to Speak Mock Swedish" while in the car. Brian Henson said "...He would drive to work trying to make a chicken sandwich in Mock Swedish or make a turkey casserole in Mock Swedish. It was the most ridiculous thing you had ever seen...But that was the roots of the character that would eventually become the Swedish Chef."

However, when interviewed by Expressen in 1985, Jim Henson claimed that the inspiration for the Swedish Chef's voice came from a suggestion from one of his writers, "One of my writers came up with the idea that the chef should sound like the Swedish actors in Ingmar Bergman films."

Sources:

"Muppet Central Guides - The Muppet Show: Connie Stevens." June 16, 2012. (Archived.)

"Mupparnas kock i Nöjesmassakern." Bonnier AB. Expressen. November 18, 1985.