By Hanna Rantala
It took artists at the Weta Workshop in New Zealand around 18 months to design Skarsgard’s suit. Because you had to really exaggerate everything, “It definitely didn’t feel very organic. “It was totally original. The Stockholm-based actor witnessed the costume coming to life over emails and video calls before trying it on some two weeks before shooting began in Budapest. “I really want the audience to know that it was practical and that it wasn’t CGI… It was a masterpiece. “The position of women, which is getting challenged in certain quarters, alarmingly so, and it’s just a lovely comment on an equal relationship and kindness and the patriarchy and feminism.
LONDON, – Actors Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgard have both played eccentric characters before but say their new film, in which Skarsgard transforms into an Adonis woven from wicker, is “in quirkiness levels, quite high”. “I’d just never seen anything like that before,” said Colman, who won an Oscar for her performance in 2018’s “The Favourite”. “That was definitely a moment I’ll never forget, when I got to step into him,” Skarsgard said. Skarsgard credited the team for shortening the costume and make-up application process from an initial “quite a few hours” to under two hours. Acting in it was a learning curve, he said, and required accentuated movements. “It had different pieces, elements to it, glued to my face, and little added lips and eyelashes made out of flax and hair,” he said. “There are some lessons in the film that are done very gently,” said Colman. It’s also enormous escapism, which is also really important at this time,” she said.
