Alicia Vikander Wants to Put ‘Beautiful and Nasty and Unapologetic’ Women on the Screen
thewrap.comKarim Ainouz film “Firebrand,” in which she stars as the 16th-century British queen Catherine Parr opposite Jude Law’s King Henry VIII.
For Vikander, it marked a return to the Czech Republic, where she made her first international movie, 2012’s “A Royal Affair,” starring as another queen, Denmark’s controversial 16th-century monarch Caroline Matilda.In between those two royal dramas, Vikander has starred in movies that include “Anna Karenina,” “Ex Machina,” “Jason Bourne,” “The Green Knight” and “The Danish Girl,” for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.During her trip to Karlovy Vary, Vikander sat down with TheWrap for a discussion of “Firebrand,” the importance of depicting honest, unapologetic women onscreen and just how disgusting it was to smell the special perfume Jude Law commissioned to capture the scent of a dying Henry VIII. When you received your award in Karlovy Vary, you said that your international career began in the Czech Republic when you came here to shoot “A Royal Affair.”I wanted to talk about what connects me to this place.
And I really wanted people to understand how truly important it was. Those few months in the Czech Republic when I shot that film, it was the first time I left Sweden.
It’s one of the big early memories of my life.I was in my early 20s, and I almost remember the whole thing, I think more vividly than a lot of other films I made even after that.
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