Michael & Alicia Fassbender ~ A Loving Couple Thread

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#709
jcsepjj said:
Yes, Seventh Son was her first international movie. She had done A Royal Affair and got a chance to fly over to Hollywood to audition and meet Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges so she took the chance, not really thinking it would lead anywhere, but she got the part. The production was posponed so she got cast and filmed Anna Karenina before Seveth Son started shooting. But Seventh Son was her first english speaking part, don't think you can blame her for taking the chance to work with those people, She was also a fan of 'Mongol' and wanted to work with Sergey Bodrov. :)

Making connections is never a bad thing, she got cast in Tulip Fever partly thanks to writer Tom Stoppard that she worked with on Anna Karenina. Hopefully Alicia gets another chance to work with Julianne Moore :)
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I think she had already auditioned for Snow White and The Huntsman. I didn't know Michael was considered to play the Huntsman :p : http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Four...ow-White-And-The-Hutsman-Shortlist-22195.html
I'm not surprised to find Saoirse Ronan among the other actresses.She said that she has often auditioned with the same actresses.
Yes,making connections with big companies was absolutely a good thing for her. I liked Stoppard’s work for AK. :smile1:

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/11/alicia-vikander-man-from-uncle
By age 20, she had landed small parts on Swedish TV shows and her first film role as a music-obsessed millennial in 2010’s Pure, for which she won Sweden’s prestigious Guldbagge Award for Best Actress. (At the time, Vikander was scraping by on shifts at a flower shop and considering law school.) But it was her work in a pair of 2012 period dramas — the Danish-language film A Royal Affair and director Joe Wright’s epic Anna Karenina — that catapulted her to international attention. Danish Girl director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) cast her in part because of those films. “There’s something about her training as a dancer,” he says. “She can have this aura of rigor and toughness. She has a wonderful strength to her.”
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http://www.details.com/blogs/daily-details/2015/08/alicia-vikander-man-from-uncle.html
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And when it comes to music, you can take the girl out of Sweden, but you can't take Sweden out of the girl. "I went to a karaoke bar in New York with some friends the other day, and as soon as an ABBA song comes up, they hand me the mic. I'm like, 'I can do other things, too!'" she says. "You know, I love a bit of Ace of Base."
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#710
Allie28 said:
Here ya go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXeVp6aNwwY&list=UU8-Th83bH_thdKZDJCrn88g&app=desktop

It's a fun interview. I loved how they repeated the "little frogs dance" as they went to commercial, lol. Alicia looks great too. I can see why men are drooling all over twitter today, lol.
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Yes,funny interview.:smile1:

Other reviews:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-20150813
And that stellar Swede Alicia Vikander is Gaby Teller, the sweet one. Or is she? Vikander, the sexbot in Ex Machina, is having a hell of a year. And you can see why. Gaby isn't much of a part, but Vikander makes her a live wire. Her impromptu dance with Kuryakin that ends in a wrestling match is, well, something to see. So is the movie, when Ritchie ignores the tangled story-line and goes for pure escapist retro fun. Note to millennials: No one stops to text or take a selfie. You've been warned.
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http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/20150811_ap_b61fdc35c36242c9ac564659760e072f.html
What pleasure does exist is in the carefully crafted aesthetics and the exaggerated acting, especially Cavill's devilish charm. Vikander and Elizabeth Debicki (as the glamorous big bad) are deliciously cool
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http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-man-from-uncle-review/5091413.article
Vikander, who drew raves for her role as the android in the sci-fi thriller Ex Machina, is mired playing Illya’s fiancée in the undercover operation that powers U.N.C.L.E.’s plot. She has a few nice moments where her tart personality can emerge, but overall her tepid flirtations with Hammer amount to very little, the characters’ tentative courtship constantly and conveniently interrupted.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/man-uncle-0/review/814288
And as skillful and attractive as Vikander is (during one section her hairdo and wardrobe make her a near-dead ringer for Julie Christie in Petulia), her character also comes off as too serious and narrowly conceived for too long, putting a damper on the blend of legitimate threat and sophisticated hijinks that Ritchie is trying to achieve
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http://www.comingsoon.net/movie/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-2015
Even more impressive is the force that is Alicia Vikander, who is much more than just a third wheel to her male stars, as she holds her own with a verve and charm we rarely get to see in the women in spy movies. (Probably the closest is Eva Green in Casino Royale.) Vikander has great scenes with the two guys, creating a fun dynamic while keeping it from being the normal testosterone fest it may have been otherwise. Ritchie gives the genre another twist by having the main “bad guy” be a woman with The Great Gatsby’s Elizabeth Debicki playing Victoria, the wealthy Italian who is using her money to fund the Nazi, which gives Solo an opportunity to use his charm and wiles to win her over.
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http://www.philly.com/philly/entert..._Man_From_U_N_C_L_E___pretty_but_tedious.html
Vikander, the A.I. muse of one of this year's best films, Ex Machina, is Gaby Teller, who we first encounter in an East Berlin garage, working the undercarriage of a car. Kuryakin calls her his "little chop-shop girl," and it turns out she can both chop (karate, judo) and shop (Dior, Rabanne). The height differential between the small-framed Swedish actress and the hulking Hammer makes their scenes together amusingly odd. Gaby is the daughter of the aforementioned vanished scientist, and both the U.S. and the Soviets are trying to find him, lest his H-bomb know-how fall into the wrong hands.
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#712
pennylane93 said:
She's back in UK already, is the promotional tour for UNCLE over? I thought there'd be more premieres..
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No, think UNCLE promo is done, no more premieres! Looks like she got home to London (and Michael) as quickly as possible. Hope they get a chance to have some quality rest and relaxation together for the next few weeks [emoji2]
 
#714
The rest of the UNCLE cast were at Bafta New York doing some promotion yesterday. Henry and Armie are going to Brazil aswell. Happy she went to London to get some rest before Bourne and the million Film Festivals coming up :)
 
#717
SusanBeach said:
Yes she was :smile1:

I read comments on youtube that someone thought "the dance" was fake but it´s very real in Sweden.
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Haha yes. We do that song and dance every year at midsummer :) and the schnapps song is 'Helan Går', probably the most famous schnapps song of them all. But I'd be hillarious if she did make it up and made Jimmy do it ^^
 
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