Alicia Vikander says she was 'the most sad' at the height of her fame: 'I was always by myself'
foxnews.com"Irma Vep" star Alicia Vikander reminisced about her early years in the spotlight during a new interview with The Times of London, saying she was "the most sad at the height of [her] fame." The 33-year-old Swedish actress, who broke through internationally with Nikolaj Arcel’s Oscar-nominated "A Royal Affair" in 2012, became a global star after back-to-back knockout performances in the sci-fi thriller "Ex Machina" and transgender romance "Danish Girl," the latter of which earned her a best supporting actress Oscar in 2016.
During that time, however, Vikander said she felt lonelier than ever. "When, in other people’s eyes, I was at my height of fame, I was the most sad.
I kept telling myself, ‘Take it in. It is incredible.’ But I didn’t know what to do.There were all these first-class flights, five-star rooms.
But I was always by myself. I was by myself," Vikander told The Times. Alicia Vikander attends the photocall for ‘Irma Vep’ during the 75th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 21, 2022, in Cannes, France. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images) Right around that time, in 2015, it was reported that she and her then-boyfriend Michael Fassbender, who is now her husband, had split up.
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