Spring approaches in New York and the Ritz-Carlton in the southeast corner of Central Park has a large crowd of journalists gathered to conduct interviews for the film “Run all night,” an action thriller with Noir traits which Sweden’s hottest Swedish actress in the United States has the role of the son of Liam Neesons assassin. Hollywood Swedes Alexander Skarsgard and Noomi Rapace has paved the way but now the hunt for the next big star from Bergman’s country initiated. There are several candidates, but it’s Joel Kinnaman now standing at the front of the spotlight, there is no doubt.
Joel Kinnaman almost looks like the archetype of a Nordic man with småspretig mustache and beard, and he is – it turns out when he sits down opposite me – equipped with a can of Swedish snuff .. That he also is 1.89 meters and built like a strong man reinforces the impression. Prillan lower lip, he calls jokingly “relapse” and perhaps it is not so odd considering everything that has happened lately. With the television series “The Kid” – the American version of the Danish “offense” – won Joel Kinnaman critics and audience appreciation in the US. Starring in the new version of “Robocop” last year meant that he took a quick step into Hollywood’s top layer. If he stays there remains to be seen, but the prospects are good. To the many new roles he has secured the future belongs role of Rick Flag Series giant DC Comics ‘Suicide Squad’ as well as many of its competitor Marvel movies are supposed to grow into a long series of films. The requirements are high, many projects and nerves may need to be reassured of tobacco from home.
To meet Joel Kinnaman alone has required several weeks of negotiations. He’s just in New York for the day. After the premiere of “Run all night” tonight – where he will walk along the red carpet with his girlfriend, 22-year-old Swedish tattoo artist and model Cleo Wattström (which he recently moved in with in Los Angeles) – he takes flight back to Canada to resume filming at seven o’clock the next morning.
– The working title of the film is “Beyond the Pale”. A psychological thriller set in Northern Ontario frozen forests, he says on the spot on American English.
Why English? We sit alone does not yet, but with four other European journalists, I get to fight with to ask questions. At this point, Joel Kinnaman obviously accustomed to the American public relations machinery, and manages the interview situation with calm. Why did he want to be with the “Run all night”?
– There is a large cap film, but could just as well have been a small independent film, like “Beyond the Pale”. Very few compromises have been made in the work on it. And it was mainly the complex father-and-son relationship in the story that attracted me. I have no close male friend who at no time has had a complicated relationship with his father.
Joel Kinna’s own father is American, mother is Swedish, and therefore he both American and Swedish citizenship. He specimen lived in the US already during high school, as an exchange student for one year of high school in Texas. But despite the many ties to the US, which has recently been strengthened with the purchase of a house in West Hollywood, he feels most Swedish.
– At least when I’m in the US, says he fixed now in Swedish with Stockholm Dialect.
It is later in the day, we sit finally on-one in a hotel room with views over The Pond in Central Park. For a long time he wanted to move to New York, midway between family and friends in Stockholm and the film industry in Los Angeles. But today he enjoys in the sydkaliforniska concrete jungle, which he thinks has undergone a change.
– Thus, the LA will probably forever be a magnet for the world’s idiots, he says, laughing.
– But something has happened that violate the tradition of interesting Swedes moving to New York and cardboard heads move to LA. Above all it is a lot of music people who have moved to LA. Superficiality available almost everywhere, and for people who want to exploit one’s celebrity status is New York actually worse. In LA are so many in the industry itself that it becomes easier to navigate away from superficiality.
Maybe is also his personality that makes it easier to escape the superficial? Joel Kinnaman itself seems exceptionally unadulterated. There is no fawning there, and sometimes watching a light Södermalm blokes attitude developed, enhanced by a curse and a softly fillers such as “like”. But the attitude and tone are always a hot chosefrihet and constant proximity of humor. A good example of how this appears in Kinnaman is the YouTube clip from 2012 where SVT’s then CEO Eva Hamilton interview him about “Robocop”. Or as Hamilton happens to say, “Robocock”. The seemingly Freudian felsägningen receive Joel Kinnaman to quickly replicate “It’s porn movie version, and I should not be in,” whereupon he burst into a roar of laughter before an embarrassed Eva Hamilton. It is hilarious situational comedy at an American way.
The clip also shows that although Joel Kinnaman feel Swedish, so is he considerably more American as a social being. He carries – his unadulterated attitude despite – in a verbal flow and a wit that is standard in any US talk show anytime.
How does it feel to one day sit in SVT’s morning sofa and the second with Conan O’Brien and Jon Stewart and be grilled?
– If there is something that the United States is the world leader in it’s humor. It is appreciated in society in a completely different way than in Sweden, and the humor is seen as a major skills. Can you pull a funny story perceived it as to have good self-esteem. Therefore, television interviews also significantly more stringent in the United States. US talk show led by the country’s best comedians. Skavlan is good in Sweden, but otherwise it’s usually just a journalist who is a bit charming or attractive empowered to carry television interviews.
What do you think the difference is?
– It is connected with the existence of a different culture when it comes to the social, USA. Here you can happily chatting with someone at the bus stop. Swedes are indeed often bothered by it, which I always thought was difficult. In Sweden it is more immigrants who are so open.
But Sweden was long the playing field. Malmö Theatre Academy, years at Gothenburg City Theatre, the first big roles, and – of course – “fast cash” films. Film trilogy, based on Jens Lapidus crime novels, has been more important for Joel Kinna’s career than anything else; the first film was the key to the first star in the United States. But to repeat the portrait of JW in the planned American version of “fast cash” would be uninteresting to him. He believes that takes the edge off the story by moving the action from Sweden to the US
– I have always thought that “fast cash” is a film that’s very typical Swedish. It has to do with our history as a social-democratic country, and the political climate that we’ve got now, which began to show itself when the film is set. JW coming from the North, a region of the left tradition. He represented a new kind of person, sprung from the working class, but who still admire and want to be like the upper class. This behavior is in my eyes once considered something ugly in Sweden, while in the US the contrary has always been something that has been celebrated. Here are expected to want to be like the rich, and to strive for and emulate their lifestyle.
To move the TV series “The crime” from Copenhagen to Seattle that was made in “The Kid”, was Joel Kinnaman however open for. TV series received four seasons – the longest period he has spent with a character. Something he sees several advantages.
– You go the in depth in a completely different way. And the script for a television series recording is about 70 percent. The rest is about how I angle my character, which largely has to do with what I’m going through in my life at the moment. What music I listen to, what I’m happy or sad. So when I look at the sections again, they become time-markers for my life.
Can you see any disadvantages of television format?
– I can be very restless of it, the drama is so slow. To show new sides of a character can take weeks. It’s like a TV series is a novel, and a feature film is a short story.
The theater then, how do you relate to it today? You are schooled at the scene.
– I would actually have gone up on stage this year, on Broadway. I wanted to play “Long Day’s Journey into Night”. But then fell suddenly into a lot of jobs that it was hard to say no to.
How important is your sister Melinda Kinnaman been for you when it comes to theater interest?
– Initially, she was extremely important as inspiration. I was and watched her in 1998 when she made ‘Persons 3: 1 “with Lars Norén, and it was so incredibly awesome. But today she is more an inspiration to me in life in general. She is something of a levnadskonstnär.
The dramaturgy in Joel Kinna’s own life seems to revolve in a violent spiral of success, where he is currently very far from the first role in the sawn SVT soap opera “Metropolis”.
Can you ever get vertigo when you look back on the past few years in your life?
– Sure, there have been moments when I as well have been amazed everywhere happens. But my career development still feels natural. After a while you adapt themselves and goals change. Like even disappointments. Some friends may think it is pompous when I get upset about a defeat today, and say something like, “you have so much else going on.” But I think you have to be true to themselves in relation to where you are in life at the moment.
What impact has your celebrity status for you?
– I have no need to increase my fame by something other than my work. That’s why I is not active on social media. But the actors are artists that have to be invited to appear, so there is obviously a purely creative reason to advertise its name. But I only want to work on interesting projects, and with people I respect and admire. It’s a simple compass to follow which makes it possible to skip all the bullshit.
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