Joachim Trier, Renate Reinsve on Oscar Contender ‘The Worst Person in the World’
variety.comMarta Balaga Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World,” about a young woman figuring out life and love, might have brought Renate Reinsve the best actress award at Cannes, but the two actually started their collaboration in 2011 on “Oslo, August 31st” – Reinsve’s very first film. “I was an extra with one line,” she said during an online discussion with the director, accompanying a surprise screening of their film at Rotterdam Film Festival. “The Worst Person in the World” was recently shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. “I had nothing to compare it to – it was my first movie set.
I thought you guys were just a group of friends having fun and making a movie. I didn’t think acting was supposed to be like that at all.
The next movie I did after I worked with you, Joachim, I was in shock.” Trier, who wrote the story with Eskil Vogt, completing his “Oslo trilogy,” created the role of Julie with Reinsve in mind. “And we are not even born in Oslo – I was born in Copenhagen.
I was asked if I have some ‘sociological insight’ into our city and I am afraid I don’t – a sculptor doesn’t have to be an expert in clay, but we both developed the feeling this is our place.
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