“Yes, we are like knitting needles clicking together to produce something beautiful.” “We are like knitting… what do you call them, pins?” She thinks Britain and Denmark will always be close anyway. Her slogan (in Danish) is “Husk at sjusk”, which roughly translates as “Remember to make mistakes”. She says it’s better to take risks and mess up than not even try. What you didn’t reach for or grasp, or the love we didn’t exchange – that’s a heavy grief.” “The things I regret are the times I let something go because I was scared. Stop wasting your time worrying,” she explains. “It’s the same resolution I make every year. Sofie’s other New Year resolution is saying goodbye to fear. The other way it was nothing but outdated stereotypes.”Īnd, without giving anything away, David Nicholls’ Us has certain things in common with the revised Bergman. “He just leaves – my father was like that.” Back in the ‘70s it led to an explosion of the divorce rate in Denmark as “people realised that they weren’t alone”.īut in the new millennium they had to turn it upside down and make it about a go-getting wife in search of a career dumping her caring, sensitive husband. It was all about a divorce between a go-getting husband who leaves his caring, sensitive wife for a younger woman. Not long ago she acted in a play based on a mini-series by Swedish director, Ingmar Bergman, Scenes from a Marriage, dating from 1973, originally starring Liv Ullmann. “It reads differently now, after Harvey Weinstein. She used to be a fan of Dangerous Liaisons (based on the classic French novel by Laclos) about libertine aristocrats. “The fact that I can even walk – I feel lucky.” Denmark and Sweden have a tradition of sexual permissiveness, but Sofie believes the #MeToo movement has turned everything around. She has found herself working out alongside severely injured war veterans. That was the day I realised I had to take it seriously.” “I ignored it for years and then one day there was a huge crowd of paparazzi outside and a bodyguard inside. “There’s a studio on the ground floor of my apartment building,” she says.
Sofie keeps fit with jogging and pilates. She does theatre in Denmark as well as films and TV. She was working in a bookshop, aged 17, when she saw an ad for a nude model to appear in a film about the artist Paul Gauguin, played by Donald Sutherland.Įncouraged by her mother, she auditioned, got the part and has been in more or less constant demand ever since. It’s so different to when I was a kid.” Sofie didn’t intend to go into acting. “I love to see young fathers pushing their prams around and not being anxious about their masculinity. We don’t leave our children and run away to Africa any more. “It was like that in those days,” she says. She was born in Copenhagen and was brought up by her mother. At 51, having survived breast cancer in 2012, she looks in glowing health and more stunning than ever. “I’m getting desperate.” She is joking, of course. To anyone in particular? “Oh, anyone,” she says. She claims getting married is her New Year’s resolution.
“As I get older I get more respectful of traditions and rituals.” Anything that represented authority was inherently bad,” she explains. I didn’t really believe in anything much at all. She stayed with their father for 14 years, but she never divorced because she never married in the first place. Sofie has two children, a boy Bror aged 18, and a girl, Gudrun, 15, with her former partner. On the other hand, she doesn’t completely rule out a return.
“Maybe you still love someone but, really, would you want to do the same thing all over again?” She has no plans to reprise her role as Sarah Lund. It’s much more about character and it was lovely having some nice long speeches in English. She is, of course, a great fan of the thriller genre but she enjoyed doing something completely different. He’s the kind of person that makes you feel comfortable. It was the first time she had worked with Tom Hollander. “And this took me to London, Barcelona and Venice. “I’ve really missed doing something in the UK,” says Sofie. Freja has a line that hints nicely at Sofie’s other persona: “By the age of nine, every schoolchild in Denmark knows the English for ‘We’ve found another body, superintendent’.”Īs to what transpires between Douglas and Freja, my lips are sealed, but suffice to say they have a romantic close encounter. Seen through the eyes of Douglas, she is “a very attractive woman, 50 or so, with a pleasant, healthy glow suggestive of black bread and swims in icy lakes”. Sofie was born to play the part of Freja. Then, in Venice, he meets Freja, a divorced dentist from Copenhagen. In Us, Douglas, a strait-laced, nerdy biochemist, is trying to save his marriage to arty, freewheeling Connie, and together with their rebellious teenage son in tow, they go off on a Grand Tour around Europe.
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