“You Can’t Compare The Two”: Nikolaj Lie Kaas On Avoiding ‘Call My Agent’ Similarities With Zentropa-Backed Industry Satire ‘Agent’ — Berlin Film Festival
deadline.comDanish actor Nikolaj Lie Kaas is best known for his work on-screen with filmmakers such as Lars von Trier and Anders Thomas Jensen, but he’s in Berlin this week with Agent, his first project as a writer-director.
The eight-part series is a biting show-business satire centered around Joe, an ambitious 35-year-old agent for some of Denmark’s biggest stars.
His job is to solve his clients’ problems – be they professional or personal, but he has enough of both kinds himself: He is about to lose custody of his ten-year-old daughter Tallulah, and his boss, who is also his mother, is close to firing him.
As Joe desperately tries to keep his head above the water, his issues only multiply. Esben Smed (Follow the Money) stars as Joe, and Danish actors such as Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) and Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen, Westward) feature as caricatures of themselves in a rolling format that audiences may recognize from Netflix’s popular French series, Call My Agent. “I was so pissed when it came out,” Kaas joked when quizzed about Call My Agent and its similarities to his debut. “The same idea at the same time.
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