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Cant wait for the new season of HOC. I wonder how much of the stuff they are going to take from the mess of election and political season in the US right now
Nothing! The writer said the season was written before the result of the election happened.
Oh ok. Regardless I think Joel will have much more screen time this season. Cant wait.
Joel is doing his third film with Common (well and Rosamund Pike and Clive Owen). It's called Three Seconds. Joel's using those Swedish connections. 
He's playing another military/police officer type of guy.
He's playing another military/police officer type of guy.http://variety.com/2017/film/global...-in-action-thriller-three-seconds-1202430353/
Joel Kinnaman on the Future of House of Cards and Shooting Suicide Squad
Swedish-born actor Joel Kinnaman, 37, is back for another season of Netflix’s House of Cards, premiering May 30. He plays New York governor Will Conway, who’s running for U.S. president against ruthless Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey).
What’s the impact of the current political situation on House of Cards?
Current events have made everybody obsessed with political news. I think that’s going to make people even more interested in the new season.
In the promo for season five, the U.S. flag is flying upside down, a distress signal. What’s up?
[Stuff’s] about to go down. In the end of the fourth season, where we were heading into the election and everything was coming to a head, the Underwoods were trailing in the polls and team Conway was poised to take over. It’s going to be a showdown.
Do you think Will’s wife Hannah (Dominique McElligott) is as supportive on House of Cards as Frank’s wife Claire (Robin Wright) is?
I would say in some ways they mirror each other, but the events of the fifth season are really going to force both Claire and Will’s wife to show their true colors.
As somebody who grew up with five sisters, how do you feel about how the show portrays the women’s storylines?
Something that I’ve always loved about House of Cards is that the women are very strong and interestingly portrayed.
You have two new showrunners for season five; is House of Cards going to feel different, or is it business as usual?
I don’t think it’s going to feel very different. A lot of the fifth season was already mapped out, and the new team are fantastic writers. They’ve done a fantastic job with carrying it forward.
What about your next project, also for Netflix, Altered Carbon?
It’s a series based on a novel [with elements of] sci-fi, noir and cyberpunk. You get in-depth theory storytelling with multiple characters that have complicated character arcs, but at the same time, you get the scale of a big-budget R-rated sci-fi movie.
What are your plans after that?
I’m going to eat French fries and juicy burgers with a lot of cheese on them. I’ve been on a super-strict diet for about eight months.
Playing Stephen Holder on The Killing was your breakthrough role in the U.S. What was the transition like for you to go from acting in Sweden to here?
I grew up in Sweden, but I had gone to high school in the U.S., and that helped me find American characters. I think, initially, what was most difficult was feeling as fluent in English and being able to play with the language in the same way that I could in Swedish.
You just have all these fragments of characters in your mind that comes from seeing them while growing up—a friend’s parent or a soccer coach—that you carry with you, and then when you get a role and it reminds you a little bit of that person, you meld that fragment with yourself, and it becomes a new character. I didn’t really have the same library of character fragments from the U.S. I think after living here for a few years, I started feeling that, and now I feel more at home here than I do in Sweden. I’m actually almost more comfortable speaking English than I am Swedish, which is really a strange thing. Just today I came from a photo shoot with a Swedish photographer, and I just realized that I’m more comfortable in English than I am in Swedish.
You’re a sci-fi fan, so what was it like then to become part of the DC Comics world in Suicide Squad?
I had such a ball shooting Suicide Squad. That’s more of a comic book, superhero world than a sci-fi world. It’s not the sci-fi thing that was exciting, for Suicide Squad, it was much more of the characters that I got to play around with. The whole cast, we had such a ball shooting that movie, and we all became really close friends. It was fun being in the DC world, being in the same movie as Batman and the Joker. That was fun, but the big takeaway for me was the cast.
What do you do in your downtime?
Usually, I prepare for my next project. That’s how my life is. Preparing for roles is usually a lot of fun. I don’t have that much downtime, but I like to go traveling. That’s my number one hobby. My wife and I go to places we haven’t been before.
I read that you once said living in New York City was your dream. Is that still the case?
No, that dream’s dead, but that was a long time ago. There was one time when I thought that I would probably end up in New York, but I’ve got to say, to me, L.A. won. I’m so happy I live in Venice [California], and I’m not going anywhere. I go surfing in the morning, I go hiking, there’s just so much to do here. The weather’s good, and I’ve got a lot of friends. To me it’s the best place in the world. I like visiting New York for a couple of months, but for living, this California lifestyle is unbeatable.
What do you see as your biggest challenge?
My biggest challenge is to always continue to grow, to keep challenging myself, and to live just 10 percent out of my comfort zone.
source: https://parade.com/571685/waltersco...of-house-of-cards-and-shooting-suicide-squad/
Swedish-born actor Joel Kinnaman, 37, is back for another season of Netflix’s House of Cards, premiering May 30. He plays New York governor Will Conway, who’s running for U.S. president against ruthless Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey).
What’s the impact of the current political situation on House of Cards?
Current events have made everybody obsessed with political news. I think that’s going to make people even more interested in the new season.
In the promo for season five, the U.S. flag is flying upside down, a distress signal. What’s up?
[Stuff’s] about to go down. In the end of the fourth season, where we were heading into the election and everything was coming to a head, the Underwoods were trailing in the polls and team Conway was poised to take over. It’s going to be a showdown.
Do you think Will’s wife Hannah (Dominique McElligott) is as supportive on House of Cards as Frank’s wife Claire (Robin Wright) is?
I would say in some ways they mirror each other, but the events of the fifth season are really going to force both Claire and Will’s wife to show their true colors.
As somebody who grew up with five sisters, how do you feel about how the show portrays the women’s storylines?
Something that I’ve always loved about House of Cards is that the women are very strong and interestingly portrayed.
You have two new showrunners for season five; is House of Cards going to feel different, or is it business as usual?
I don’t think it’s going to feel very different. A lot of the fifth season was already mapped out, and the new team are fantastic writers. They’ve done a fantastic job with carrying it forward.
What about your next project, also for Netflix, Altered Carbon?
It’s a series based on a novel [with elements of] sci-fi, noir and cyberpunk. You get in-depth theory storytelling with multiple characters that have complicated character arcs, but at the same time, you get the scale of a big-budget R-rated sci-fi movie.
What are your plans after that?
I’m going to eat French fries and juicy burgers with a lot of cheese on them. I’ve been on a super-strict diet for about eight months.
Playing Stephen Holder on The Killing was your breakthrough role in the U.S. What was the transition like for you to go from acting in Sweden to here?
I grew up in Sweden, but I had gone to high school in the U.S., and that helped me find American characters. I think, initially, what was most difficult was feeling as fluent in English and being able to play with the language in the same way that I could in Swedish.
You just have all these fragments of characters in your mind that comes from seeing them while growing up—a friend’s parent or a soccer coach—that you carry with you, and then when you get a role and it reminds you a little bit of that person, you meld that fragment with yourself, and it becomes a new character. I didn’t really have the same library of character fragments from the U.S. I think after living here for a few years, I started feeling that, and now I feel more at home here than I do in Sweden. I’m actually almost more comfortable speaking English than I am Swedish, which is really a strange thing. Just today I came from a photo shoot with a Swedish photographer, and I just realized that I’m more comfortable in English than I am in Swedish.
You’re a sci-fi fan, so what was it like then to become part of the DC Comics world in Suicide Squad?
I had such a ball shooting Suicide Squad. That’s more of a comic book, superhero world than a sci-fi world. It’s not the sci-fi thing that was exciting, for Suicide Squad, it was much more of the characters that I got to play around with. The whole cast, we had such a ball shooting that movie, and we all became really close friends. It was fun being in the DC world, being in the same movie as Batman and the Joker. That was fun, but the big takeaway for me was the cast.
What do you do in your downtime?
Usually, I prepare for my next project. That’s how my life is. Preparing for roles is usually a lot of fun. I don’t have that much downtime, but I like to go traveling. That’s my number one hobby. My wife and I go to places we haven’t been before.
I read that you once said living in New York City was your dream. Is that still the case?
No, that dream’s dead, but that was a long time ago. There was one time when I thought that I would probably end up in New York, but I’ve got to say, to me, L.A. won. I’m so happy I live in Venice [California], and I’m not going anywhere. I go surfing in the morning, I go hiking, there’s just so much to do here. The weather’s good, and I’ve got a lot of friends. To me it’s the best place in the world. I like visiting New York for a couple of months, but for living, this California lifestyle is unbeatable.
What do you see as your biggest challenge?
My biggest challenge is to always continue to grow, to keep challenging myself, and to live just 10 percent out of my comfort zone.
source: https://parade.com/571685/waltersco...of-house-of-cards-and-shooting-suicide-squad/