Lena Endre plays a psychologist: "Important role"

She is currently working on a reinterpretation of Bergman's "Faithless", a collaboration with a Norwegian star director and a Dramaten tour. Still, Lena Endre has time for a short visit to the film festival in Venice.

» Updated: October 01 2024

» Published: August 31 2024

Lena Endre plays a psychologist: "Important role"
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In just a day, Lena Endre has wrapped up this year's film festival in Venice. She has been here to talk about the European co-production "Quiet Life", a film set in 2018 where a family threatened with deportation is affected when both children develop apathy syndrome and refuse to wake up.

Endre plays a psychologist at the Migration Agency who interviews the children about what happened to them in the Russia they fled from.

It's not a big role, but it's important. This psychologist, who interviews one of the girls, and who realizes that what she's telling is something rehearsed, she's right in her own way. But in the end, maybe it will work out so that they get to stay after all, says Lena Endre.

Dramaten feels like home

Right now, Endre has a packed schedule. She's working with Joachim Trier's new film, she's touring Sweden with Dramaten's production of "Dance of Death" – and she's about to start rehearsing for a new play on the national stage.

It's her artistic home and the commitment there has contributed to her never having had the ambition to seek out opportunities abroad.

I've had it so good there. I've had a few small roles, in a "Kingsman" film where Björn Granath and I played the Swedish royal couple, and in Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master". Otherwise, it's been work in Norway and Sweden.

In Joachim Trier's new film, she plays opposite, among others, Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, and Elle Fanning. Endre plays an actress who is supposed to be in a film that the director, played by Skarsgård, is making.

Joachim is wonderful, an incredibly good person.

New interpretation of "Trolösa"

Further ahead in the winter, we'll also see her in Tomas Alfredson's new interpretation of the Ingmar Bergman-written and Liv Ullmann-directed "Trolösa" from 2000. In the original, the lead roles were played by Endre and Krister Henriksson, in the series by Frida Gustavsson and Gustav Lindh.

But Endre appears in flashbacks as the older Marianne.

I watched the film recently, it's a very heavy film. In the new one, they've made Marianne into a person who's almost a "bag lady". I look bloody awful, thanks to bloody brilliant costume and makeup.

Name: Lena Endre

Age: 69

Lives: Stockholm

Family: Husband Martin Wickström, two children.

Occupation: Actress.

Previous roles: "Varuhuset", "Besökarna", "Den goda viljan", "Söndagsbarn", "Yrrol", "Jerusalem", "Trolösa", "Alla älskar Alice", "Millennium" trilogy, "Wallander" films, "Kingsman: The Golden Circle", "Min pappa Marianne".

Current: "Quiet Life" is shown in Venice, the new interpretation of "Trolösa" comes to TV in winter.

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