Noomi Rapace do not know what she should wear. When we meet, it’s a week to Sweden premiere of “Child 44″, Soviet drama in which she plays treason accused the wife of an MGB agent during the Stalin regime against, among others, Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman. Gala Dress of punk fashion grande dame Vivienne Westwood or oversized street fashion of the London-based men’s designer Astrid Andersen? Old avant-garde or new?
– It’s fun to run full gala because no one in Sweden does. People come to their premieres in jeans. But I do not know … men’s fashion and a big fucking coat maybe more I nonetheless. I decide enough at the last moment. Go on my intuition. And the form of the day.
We eat breakfast at a comfortable traveling distance from her home in London. In Rapace measure is a weekly eons of time. She will, among much else catch the “Child 44″ -premiär in London, sitting in Graham Norton’s TV couch with Carey Mulligan, working in Paris for one day, take the train back to London for a charity gala that evening, fly to Los Angeles to negotiate the four upcoming projects (one of them is the film “Rupture” by Steven Shainberg who directed the “Secretary” and “Fur”), and so spend a few days with interviews and photo shoots before Stockholm.
– I always just drive on. But I have actually started to think a little bit ahead in terms of energy. Last night, I would meet a producer at ten in the evening and then go to a party. I had been out late the night before, gone up and practicing Thai boxing early with Lev, my son, driving him to school and worked all day. I knew that the upcoming week would be completely unbearable if I did not get to sleep. So I put in.
He was just completely silent while I spoke. When I was done, he took a break. Silence. Then he said: “Naomi … I love it.”
Within the entertainment film is classical acting persona often simply defined character. Interview Quotes, bubbly and press photos correlates with the selected roles and genres. For men, there are stencils mother dreams and badboys. Women choose among cliché figures horor, madonnas and jaunty neighboring girls. Noomi Rapace work according to different principles. Already when I interviewed her many years ago, she spoke of himself as “a chameleon who receive dots when the environment is spotty.” Today she says that it evolved to “balance up to the outside world”:
– If I work with an actor who is wild and demanding as I become responsible and calm. If I’m working with someone who takes care of everything, then I’m the one who takes up space.
Since she hit through internationally with “Men who hate women” Noomi Rapace, thanks to collaborations with, among others, Ridley Scott, Brian de Palma and Guy Ritchie, has become one of the world’s most in-demand actor. At the same time, she has consistently refused to allow themselves typecastas to instead adopt a variety of guises. On the silver screen roles as a teacher, prostitute and science woman in everything from action films and costume dramas to science fiction. In the publicity lyxgot in big black chunks, classic beauty in the power line dresses or hip-hop girl in patterned jogging suits and moon boot oversized sneakers …
After breaking his nose during a recording (she does in virtually all his stunt scenes himself) is Noomi Rapace right now something of a Janus face. (“I have checked up if I have time to do rhinoplasty before the next film, but that time I did not so it will be like this.”) She pulls out her phone to show off the latest example of the ongoing transformation process that is her public self. The pictures, from the newspaper “Blag” is like a make of me-season in full gallop: Naomi is unrecognizable in shocking pink hair on the cover, elegantly rouged woman in backslick an image, tough bunch bride on next.
The chronic metamorphosis is not just visual. Noomi Rapace, depending on the situation and companionship, talking formed as a drama actor or talk a bit slowly and deliberately puckat as a junkie. Put her in a TV couch and she delivers well-oiled jokes and mischief. Let her be interviewed by a clever British journalist, and she is witty and quick.
Often it is because she is moving in or out of any of the roles that she is “doing everything”: Always prepare thoroughly and in principle without modification. (In a situation she decided after all not to do a breast augmentation in the name of art, but only after long deliberations with himself.) She has gone down to 49 kilos, started smoking, and moved among prostitutes face – later suspended – ” Alive alone “. Faced bioaktuella “Child 44″ – in which she plays a mentally scarred Soviet woman who will do anything to not draw attention to itself – bleached her hair and eyebrows so hard and so many times that the latter eventually fell off.
At the same time, it appears inside the many costumes to be a straight line and a definite goal: Noomi Rapace would not only become a great actress. She wants to become a great actress who write their own rules.
You have a variety of projects and companies that you are driving, with several scheduled movies, a television series, products … You acting as a kind of …
– media mogul? (Big laugh)
Noomi Rapace is far from Citizen Kane, the newspaper man in the Orson Welles film. But already when she worked at the Theatre Plaza and Theatre schooner in her 20s she lay in productions, altered casting decisions and acted far beyond the actor’s familiar context. Today she is a person who lifts the handset: she makes sure to get things done. Prior to “The Drop” from last year was Noomi Rapace, who read the script early, committed several famous acting names and acted spider in the web during production. Faced with the “Child 44″ was she who brought the right holder Ridley Scott, who directed her in “Prometheus”, with director Daniel Espinosa.
Yes, but in fact, media mogul. I have a feeling that there is a master plan, you know exactly where you are going.
– Yes, yes. But the point of a master plan is well that you should not tell it?
I thought the point was to tell it. For then you have to carry it out.
– So, I want to do something that nobody has done. I want to be a female actor that has its own platform, where I can create projects and let the others inspires me grow. A mini-empire that is courageous and simultaneously communicating with enough to have a real impact.
What are the steps there?
– The acting is always important. But I already produces. I will probably be directing eventually. My plan is to slowly grow into it and I want to be.
On Instagram gives you already invaluable space to other musicians like Angel Haze and Elliphant, or artists Tim Noble & amp; Sue Webster …
– Yes, it is double that. If I put up a picture where I’m looking a tiny bit, it will be lots of likes. I put up a piece of art it will be much less. If I meet Kanye West and Kim Kardashian and upload a picture and tag them I would get incredibly many more followers, in a second. However, I choose all the time not to make the choices.
You have been extremely careful to protect your privacy. Are you releasing garden a little? You see your boyfriend [world champion in Thai boxing Sanny Dahlbeck] on Instagram for example …
– Maybe … But if I have taken a step forward is probably two steps back close. I think I will pull myself away even further from public view. I agree, for example, in the press releases. When it comes out of a story in the United States about me and Orlando Bloom where “close sources” confirmed that there are serious between us and the Orlando finally gotten over his ex-wife, then we actually met only once outside the set, at a dinner with our producers. Nevertheless, I choose not to go out with any press release. I say nothing at all. For it is only an endless spiral of that refute and correct. It takes too much time and too much energy and it is a fight that is not going to win.
Right now creates Noomi Rapace, all according to the master plan, the first projects where she works as a producer at the paper. Among other things, she has gotten together financing for a television series. Along with a production company, she has bought the rights to one, as yet undisclosed, romance and looking for optimal viewing window.
Are you heading towards the position you want in the film world?
– I have achieved certain milestones. Take the “Unlocked”. Where I play a CIA agent who just happens to be a woman. My acting is completely oposerande. It is not pretty, not sexy. I do not think it has been done before. There are movies like “Salt”, but it is so stylized. “Unlocked” is brutal and raw.
Is it possible to do what you want in the context of major blockbusters?
– “Unlocked” has the same producer as “Transformers.” So, yes. The last day of shooting came Michael Douglas came up to me and said “You got it in your hand, kiddo.” He is the one who comes into a movie and have lots of experience and weight. When we would do a scene together, I wanted to write about it overall. He defended it. I sat for two hours and giving reasons why it should be rewritten. The director sat silent. It was a suicide mission. I can not believe I kept trying. But I managed. Finally. I did not come all the way to where I wanted. But almost. I believe that such contagious.
What do you mean?
– I think that even those who have been longest the system will be affected by my desire to get it to be real, to do something that is true. For I move the focus from who “wins” the scene. I do not care if it’s my close-up or their close-up. I want the scene to be as good as possible.
Alongside producer role carries Noomi Rapace even a Robin Hood-business where she makes sure to steal the most interesting roles of men. Planned “What happened to Thursday?” Would be about seven brothers, identical twins played by the same actor. It was written about the Seven Sisters after Noomi Rapace came into production. Recently, she was asked to look at another script to see if one of the three male roles could be done about her:
– But I would rather play another of them, a destructive gangster guy who everyone hates, who fuck around and sitting and holding on his dick all the time.
Noomi Rapace balanced blokes unit by showing up at the meeting with the producer in a short skirt, long nails and layers of makeup.
– I asked him to open his mind and give me half an hour. Then I drove on and explained that this will be a woman you’ve never seen before. As crazy and as wild as a man … But something completely different. Completely spellbinding. He was just completely silent while I spoke. When I was done, he took a break. Silence. Then he said: “Naomi … I love it.”
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