“Alicia has this ripe internal world. And when the camera points to her, you can see the tornadoes inside. It’s spellbinding. She’s not afraid to be ugly, to be unlikable, to fail. And she gave me as much on the thirtieth take as on the first.” ‒ Derek Cianfrance
“Eddie saw me crying after the scene ended, and he said to me later, ‘Well, there’s no great suspense around who you’re going to cast.’ The only other person who’s overpowered me in an audition that way was Anne Hathaway when she came in to read for Les Misérables.” ‒ Tom Hooper
“I think Alicia is one of the very special ones. There’s a few actors around at the moment who are just really really special. These people who you’re always excited to see what they do. And Alicia’s one of those, absolutely. She has that voracious appetite for creating new characters that I just find really exciting. She’s able to do all that work because she’s able to change what she does enough that it remains compelling.” ‒ Domhnall Gleeson
“She’s a force of nature. She’s just the most extraordinary talent. She has this deep, visceral relationship with her emotions. She challenged me to step up my game continuously.” ‒ Eddie Redmayne
“Maybe it’s a cliché but I think it’s true that some people have faces that the camera loves. You can look at Alicia’s face and you can see so many different levels of her soul at the same time. Her face tells a story in every picture.” ‒ Lisa Langseth
Happy 28th birthday, Alicia Amanda Vikander (October 3, 1988)
