#twq interview

This summer, you starred in the very successful MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE. How has it been returning to the franchise after all these years?

It’s always wonderful and exciting. I’ve been a part of this journey now for 10 years, for three films and there are different aspects of filming it. You’re pre-filming as you are prepping, you’re getting ready, you’re training, you’re living MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. Then it’s the filming, which is wonderful, tiring, exhausting and exhilarating. And then there’s a long pause before you get to relive all of those feelings when you start promoting it. I’m excited for the fans to see it, being a huge MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE fan, but it’s also such a lovely feeling to be reminded of the journey that you’ve had because in my mind, I’m filming other things, I’m busy doing other things, so I get to sort of defibrillate those emotions again, which is just wonderful.

What do you love most about this franchise and action movies in general?

I really love building the world prior to shooting, understanding the character, getting into it. I love the training. I am fortunate to be surrounded by the best of the best when it comes to either learning to hold my breath, deep diving, jumping off a roof, martial arts, gun fighting. It is such a weird world to be thrown into, cause it’s not my world, it’s not what I do on a weekend. And the travel is a treat. 

International audiences got to know you for your role as the iconic Queen Elizabeth in THE WHITE QUEEN. How do you look back on this role?

When I was offered the role, it was such an overwhelming moment because it happened so fast. It took years to process what had happened. The process of casting took months. I remember going in and then them not calling me back and thinking that I didn’t get it. Then they called me back again three times, put me in a hotel room and then all of a sudden I got a phone call at nine in the morning and they were like ‘You’ve got the role. We’re going to color your hair. We’re going to have a table read with all the actors and you’re moving to Bruges in two days’.

I kind of work well with such pressure, but it takes time to sit down and take in what just happened. When I was receiving award nominations and I was in the room with all of the people who I look up to, I just thought ‘I don’t belong here. Am I where I should be? ‘It’s a slow domino effect of realizing how lucky I am. And today I sometimes think it was insane when that happened.

Would you describe the role of Queen Elizabeth as the role that set the tone for the future of your career?

Yes, definitely. I remember in the beginning thinking MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE was what set the tone. It’s always sort of back tracing, always wanting to give praise to all the opportunities that I’ve been a part of. But it is obviously what would help my career get to the level it is today. And also it’s the fact that you’ve been given that possibility. I am going to give myself a pat on the back today. I grabbed it and I ran with it. I did what I could with the opportunity at hand. It’s not just sitting back and being grateful, it is working with what you have been handed as well.

Since THE WHITE QUEEN, you’ve starred in many big productions and have become one of the leading ladies in the industry. How do you personally feel about this ‘title’? 

It is so funny, I was having a conversation with my husband this morning at breakfast, where we were talking about our lives and what we’re missing and what we long for. You said to me that I’m one of the leading ladies in the industry. And I think I do not identify as that. I feel very lucky with the roles that I’m offered, but I always seek further and am thinking ‘Why am I not getting the indie movies? Why am I not being offered this? I should create this myself. I need to open this world for myself. I’m missing things here.’ It doesn’t mean I’m not grateful for where I am, but I very rarely stand still. I am constantly moving and aspiring to do new things. Iprobably need to learn to sit back and think about how well I’m doing, grab the family and have time off as well.

This November we’ll be seeing you reprise your role in DUNE: PART TWO. What can you share with us about this sequel? 

I’m so ridiculously excited for it to come out. Everything that I have seen, the little clips when I’ve done additional dialogue recording, is phenomenal, it’s extraordinary. When we have to do some additional dialogue recordings we go into studio, so we get to see some footage. Greig Fraser has taken this film to other levels when it comes to cinematography. I don’t like lifting one role over the other, but I have to say the new characters that have come in, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Florence Pugh, Austin Butler, they are mind-blowing. It’s gritty and gory and Jacqueline West’s costumes and Donald Mowat’s makeup, they win every prize in my book.

Rebecca Ferguson: "I'm done with super power women"

At the same time that Rebecca Ferguson is seen in cinemas in the blockbuster Dune: Part two, she dreams of making small films and acting in theatre. For Gunnar Rehlin, she talks about the sex scenes, the successes - and why there won't be more films with Tom Cruise.

Rebecca Ferguson is tired of playing "super power women".

-I'm good at it, but it's boring, she says.

Therefore, there will be no more impossible missions with Tom Cruise - she was asked to make another film in the series, but declined.

-For the first time I feel like a free agent (a player without a contract with a club, ed. note), she says and laughs.

Instead, she wants to enter the narrow world of cinema.

- And then I want to be on stage. I've never done it, I didn't study acting, I was almost thrown into it. So right now I'm sitting with the freedom, but I don't have any pieces. The other day I read a play for the first time, I haven't done it before.

Rebecca Ferguson wants to make smaller film and theater It might seem a little contradictory that we're sitting at the luxurious Rosewood Hotel in London talking about Rebecca's desire to make smaller, leaner films, as she's currently doing interviews for the mega-budget production Dune: Part Two, with an estimated production cost of over $120 million. This day I meet Rebecca and Stellan Skarsgård, the day after I meet Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh and the director Denis Villeneuve, among others.

But Rebecca's desire to do smaller films seems sincere. She says:

- Just this morning, I received an offer to do a small role in a studio film, for a lot of money. But I don't want to feel like I'm working just for money. I discussed this with my husband. Many people say that you should strike while the iron is hot, but I don't want to. I'm very happy with what I'm doing now, I want to do roles that neither bring me down nor lift me up. I don't care.

Now, this shouldn't be taken as saying she doesn't want to make a third Dune movie. Number two ends with a cliffhanger that points to a sequel.

-I have spoken to Denis about it and I would very much like to do number three, she says.

In the Dune films, a powerful science fiction epic set on distant planets, she plays the mother of Timothee Chalamet's protagonist.

- But I don't just see her as a mother, in Dune: Part Two she is a person who wants to get her way, says Rebecca.

"A lot of talk about the sex scenes" And that is probably something that also characterizes Rebecca Ferguson as a person. She is an extremely nice and spontaneous person, who is really not afraid to speak up when there is something she wants to protest against, but also does not shy away from handing out spontaneous hugs.

She has a very Swedish way of looking at work and its consequences – such as doing nude and sex scenes, something that was plentiful in the TV series The White Queen.

- It's not particularly convenient to do sex scenes, man, I have control over the scenes I do and what I show. This couple that Max Irons and I played in The White Queen had many children, so there was as much battlefield as sex in the series. When I was interviewed in the US, there was a lot of talk about the sex scenes and I said: "How do you make children in the US? This is how it works in Europe". By the way, the series was made in two different versions, there is more sex and nudity in the American one than the one shown in England. Sex sells, that's how it is.

Nowadays, London is both home and the hub of her career. She previously lived in Simrishamn. Her mother, who is from England, had moved here and Rebecca followed. For a while she kept the home in Simrishamn (her former partner Ludwig, with whom she has a son, lives there) parallel to the apartment she got in Richmond.

Began his career in the TV soap "New Times" But let's go even further back in time, when Rebecca lived in Stockholm and her career began, with a role in the TV soap New Times. She says that it was a coincidence that she was cast in the series, that it was because she attended Adolf Fredrik's music school and could sing.

The job with New Times caused her to miss high school. She moved away from home, took different jobs, enrolled in high school later, ended up in the United States where she was in a Swedish-American TV soap.

-Imagine being 17 years old and spending a year in Miami Beach, where the biggest problem was whether it would be the pool or the beach.

After that year, she still wasn't sure what she wanted to do.

- I traveled around, was in Thailand and got a diving certificate and wanted to become a diving instructor. I love the sea, love to dive - even though I suffer from claustrophobia. To swim with fish and to float around...

In 2011, she was back in Sweden and met the director Richard Hobert, who asked if she wanted to be in his upcoming film En enkel till Antibes. In it, Rebecca played a cold-blooded woman trying to trick an aging man, played by Sven-Bertil Taube. The film received good reviews, a foreign agent caught the eye of Rebecca and not too long after that she had auditioned for and landed the lead role in the BBC series The White Queen, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.

Saying no to more Mission: Impossible Soon after, she caught the eye of Tom Cruise, which led to a contract for three films in the Mission: Impossible series. Since the third has been split into two films, number two (Mission: Impossible – Dead reckoning part two) will arrive later this year.

But there won't be a fourth film with Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, says Rebecca.

- I'm done, I've turned down part four.

What now occupies her most is the TV series Silo, which is filmed in a studio outside London. Rebecca stars in the dystopian sci-fi series about how humanity is forced to live in a large underground silo after the apocalypse. The first season was a great success, now the filming of season two is underway.

A few days before we meet, Rebecca was at the gala premiere of Dune: Part two in Paris. But while Stellan Skarsgård and the others went to the party, Rebecca had to take the train back to London in order to be there early the next morning at the recording.

-I film basically every day, it's a lot of stress. The others from Dune travel the world and do PR. I'm doing New York, I don't have time anymore.

Still getting starstruck Both Dune and Silo are sci-fi, but it's not like it's a genre that's particularly close to her heart. She says she enjoys the complexity of the worlds depicted and that the Dune films made this accessible in a way that the books they're based on couldn't.

- I like imagination, I'm at an age where you no longer fly on broomsticks. I want to go on adventures, and that's more than fantasy and science fiction.

A few years ago, she married Rory St Clair Gainer, with whom she has a daughter. Rebecca is keen to keep the family out of the limelight, although they sometimes accompany the filming around the world. The husband is a businessman and philanthropist.

Rebecca's work includes filming with mega stars such as Tom Cruise, Meryl Street, Hugh Grant and Hugh Jackman. Can Rebecca still be starstruck? Well, she became that, for example, during the filming of Dune: Part two, when an important role was played by the legendary Christopher Walken.

-I sat on my throne, with a cloth over my face, and did not dare to make eye contact with him. How could I dare speak to him? Then someone said he knows a lot about Marlon Brando, so when I got the chance I asked him to tell me about Brando - and he did.

Rebecca's career has long gone straight up. How does she herself view the successes?

- There are people out there who drive around with scripts and go to castings and never get any roles and who are probably better than I am. I don't mean that I'm bad, I work very hard at what I do.

- But I have never seen a future, I have never predicted that it would be a success. I haven't had sharp elbows to make it in Hollywood. I've wanted to do what I'm doing now for a long time, and it feels like such a damn luxury.

“I look for the simple relationship dramas of just going to the loo while somebody is brushing their teeth. It’s just a fucking shot and it’s just real. I want that,” says Swedish-born actor, Rebecca Ferguson. And although she wants a skin-and-bones realism when it comes to the films she makes, she is certainly a darling of the movie theater spectacle. In other words, Ferguson graces some of the most grand and big budget films known to earth-dwellers, that of the Mission Impossible series, where she stars alongside none other than Tom Cruise, or her effortless depth as Lady Jessica in Dune and the forthcoming Part Two, as well as helming post-apocalyptic Apple TV+ series Silo, which is slated for a second season, and these are just to name a few.

Ferguson speaks further regarding her process when it comes to choosing a project to work on, “I read a script and I like a script, and I like a character, and I like the director, and I like the ensemble.” But then she pauses, light from the street moving across her face, “But, honestly, I do get sick and tired of playing powerful women. Or being asked that question: ‘You like playing powerful women, don’t you?’ I think [to myself], ‘Ugh, no, I just like playing people with thoughts and actions and reactions.’ And I think why I’m loving these films and series (Dune, Mission Impossible, Silo), is because it’s an uncontrolled environment. I like an environment that takes you into something unsettling, taking control of you and you have to adapt.”

Ferguson has adapted, ladies and gentlemen. Considering her lengthy résumé, it’s as if she has punched a winning artistic lottery ticket. Additionally, her experience has now allowed her to be of service, which the star is grateful for and does not take for granted. “It’s quite nice,” she says, speaking of her chops offering virtues, “because we have new characters in season two of Silo, and they are nervous, and a bit younger, and it’s nice to nurture and care for them on set. Like, I don’t like flying, I’m claustrophobic, but if I fly with someone who’s terrified, I’m super cool. I think that happens on set as well. You can kind of pretend you’ve got your shit together.”

Pretending or not, Ferguson is interested in humanity, meaning, she is interested in people that care for one another, not just treating artists and the like as if they are capitalistic puzzle pieces. “I feel similar to Denis Villeneuve (the director of Dune) in the way I run a set. When I say ‘me,’ I mean that I’m the lead of it and I produce it, and I am part of the collaboration and safety—” note, Ferguson is an executive producer on Silo— “and to be a part of the bigger picture is really important for me. To feel connected because we’re people. And I do well with people who are character actors and quite self-obsessed. It’s interesting, I love drama and I think it’s fun as long as its kind, but I want a really good set. I want a happy set where everyone feels heard and seen.” She continues eloquently, “I think acting is so delicate and individual. But if you feel safe then the humanity of holding space for each other [can happen], so then you feel safe to explore. Also, when you get older...” Ferguson pauses, and a wry smile appears, “I want to have fun, man. I want to really come to work and enjoy it.”

She has played against Tom Cruise, Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya. Made action, costume drama and musical. Still, Rebecca Ferguson is often offered the same type of female role: the strong, noble and cool. Now she takes matters into her own hands in pursuit of the characters she never played before.

Maybe Rebecca Ferguson is so successful that we do not understand that she is Swedish. For the past decade, she has acted as an action hero against Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible", portrayed opera singer Jenny Lind against Hugh Jackman in "The Greatest Showman" and played against Hugh Grant and Meryl Streep in "Florence Foster Jenkins".

Last year, she was praised for her role as Lady Jessica in the big movie "Dune", based on the cult book of the same name, written by Frank Herbert in 1965. But now that she has been honored at the Gothenburg Film Festival, the question of why we Swedes no longer brag about her is of the motivation.

- Yes, I do not know. It is up to others to answer why I do not get more attention in Sweden, it is not a question I ask myself. I work non-stop and the media bit and attention is not something I was looking for, says Rebecca Ferguson.

She is sitting in a car driving through London. It's late at night and she has just finished a filming day for the upcoming TV series "Wool". Her life in England is highly private. What we do know is that she lives in the Richmond district, that her house is near the river Thames, that her husband is called Rory (surname unknown) and is an "entrepreneur" and that she has two children: a teenage son with her Swedish ex-husband and a little daughter with the aforementioned Rory.

- People like me thrive quite well in the shadows, I like to stay here. But I long for Sweden and it is really honoring for me to be noticed at home. I am grateful to have been highlighted in such a nice context and wish I could have gone there, she says.

Rebecca Ferguson was born and raised in Stockholm with a British mother and a Swedish father. She has only been to Gothenburg once in her life and never visited the film festival, which she has not been able to do this year either: due to covid, she only participates digitally.

As a child, Rebecca Ferguson was shy. She went to music school and danced ballet, but could not give speeches to the class without being ashamed and starting to blush. Today, she appears very confident, in gala dresses on red carpets, mingling with the Hollywood elite, charming in the talk shows.

- But I can still think that it's tough to step forward and talk in front of people. The more I work, the more confident I become in my role and position and I have no problem selling a film that I feel proud of. But I definitely have a shy and timid side, she says.

But then Rebecca Ferguson was also forced to overcome her worst shyness when, as a 15-year-old, she got the lead role in the Swedish soap opera "New Times", an initiative that would replace "Different Worlds", which in turn would replace "Three Crowns". It was simply a time of greatness for TV soaps in Sweden and "New Times" was broadcast in half-hour episodes on TV4 every weekday between the autumn of 1999 and the spring of 2001.

For Rebecca Ferguson, the offer of the TV series came at the right time. She had just finished high school at Adolf Fredrik's music school and was in the middle of the infamous life choice which is to choose a high school specialization. The role of Anna Gripenhielm made her famous overnight. Rebecca dropped out of high school.

- "New times" became my life. I just drove on and never questioned that choice then or now. Everything that happened after that is a domino effect of that decision, I have nothing else to compare with, she says.

After two years in the soap world, Rebecca Ferguson disappeared. She moved to Skåne, had a child  and managed to get a regular job for almost ten years. She worked at a Korean restaurant, at Dressman in Simrishamn, as a cleaner in a hotel and recorded fictional audio books. For the money she earned, she took private acting courses, but her career stood still. She considered giving up that part of her life.

- I have really fought for my career, have not slipped into a banana peel. After "New Times" I did not know what I wanted - so I tested everything. But who knows what would have happened if I had not met Richard Hobert in that market. Then everything could have been different, she says.

Director Richard Hobert was looking for an actress who could play the lead role in his upcoming film "En enkel till Antibes". For weeks he had been searching in his memory for the name of a young Swedish girl he had seen in TV soap a few years earlier, without results.

He went to his summer house in Simrishamn and suddenly Rebecca Ferguson stood in front of him among the tourists at a flea market. Hobert recognized her immediately and knew he had found the right one. One week later, Rebecca Ferguson was on a plane to Norrland to meet her costar Sven-Bertil Taube.

- All stories and careers are unique in their own way, but this was really special and changed the direction of my life. I have friends who are still struggling, who go to castings and record tapes every week, and I make sure to tell them and the younger people around me that my life and my path are not ordinary.

There is a gratitude in Rebecca Ferguson's voice as she talks about her career. After "En enkel till Antibes" everything went fast. She got the lead role in the British TV series "The White Queen", a role that would be Ferguson's international breakthrough, and she left Sweden before she even had time to start her career here.

Suddenly she was sitting on a huge TV series recording in England and turned to her costar Max Irons in a moment of clarity and said "Can you believe this, we're in a real BBC production". He replied, "I know. Let’s just take it in ”.

- And I try to really capture such moments. I often reflect on what luck I have  that has taken me where I am and experienced so many things. I told my mother the other day, she called and asked why she had not heard from me in a long time and I told her that it is because I have so much fun, I work hard and am so happy.

The role of Elizabeth Woodville in "The White Queen" led to a Golden Globe nomination for Rebecca Ferguson. One of those who saw the series was Tom Cruise, who immediately decided that Rebecca was the person he was looking for in his upcoming "Mission Impossible" movie. She had flown to the desert in Morocco for a new filming when she got the call.

- It was a crazy time. I was sitting on a camel named Barbie when they called and told me to fly and meet Tom. I had a day off, then I needed to be back in the desert. By the way, the last person to ride that  camel was Nicole Kidman. It felt like a sign, she says.

Since then, Rebecca Ferguson's CV has been filled with a variety of films. She has done sci-fi, musicals, action and horror. Has played against some of Hollywood's biggest stars. But still, some words always come back to describe her roles: strong, cool and noble portraits of women.

- Yes and now you do too. Repeat the same word to describe me. It is enough that you do two such roles well to feed the generalized image of you. Then you're stuck in a typecasting. It will be a moment 22, you get the role because you are good but you also want to be free from it ...

How do you choose your roles today?

- In a way, I can choose, because thankfully, offers come all the time. But at the same time, there are things I seek that do not come my way. I do not get everything I want, am not always satisfied. That is why I want to produce, to have more to say in it, she says.

In the new TV series "Wool", she gets to do just that for the first time. In addition, she plays a character she has longed for, a mechanic who "maneuvers wrenches all day". In addition, she is looking for assignments in Sweden, reading script after script and chasing her agents to make Swedish film, but so far they have not come her way, "maybe because people think I am not interested".

- My biggest problem right now is that I do not have time for everything I want to do. I like to dip my foot a little everywhere and feel like an open book right now. There are endless ideas and it makes me very excited, she says.

Rebecca Ferguson - interview for Göteborgs Posten, published 15 February 2022. 

Rebecca Ferguson, an impossible mission There is no five without six. At least, if it is 'Mission Impossible'. We talked to actress REBECCA FERGUSON, Tom Cruise's co-star in this new installment of the saga.

"I loved to come back, it’s like being in heaven," she tells us. Tom Cruise? "It's hard not to have a good relationship with him. He is one of the most engaging and stimulating colleagues I have ever worked with." Her career, let's be honest, is still not enough to accumulate a long list with which to compare, but she is getting there. She started trying to make a living as a model, but her agency placed her in a book that said 'Normal people' – now she finds it funny. Under that heading she was given just two jobs, which she tells us she hated to do. «So I didn't even think about it when they proposed to do a casting for television». That's where her life as an actress began, which has led her to make titles such as Hercules and  roles in The Girl on The Train or The Greatest Showman. “What really changed everything was The White Queen series, although it is difficult to appreciate the impact of these changes while they are happening. It takes a couple of years to look back and say, 'Wow, what happened here!'” Of course, if anyone believes that just because you are Swedish you have a special pedigree that brings you closer to Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman or Anita Ekberg, forget it. "I get inspired by people who love what they do, not by geographic heritage." It's clear. Good luck with your mission.

Forever fatal woman - Rebecca Ferguson On October 19, Swedish and English actress Rebecca Ferguson celebrated her 38th birthday. In the autumn, viewers were able to see the premiere of the long-awaited film Dune, in which the woman played the main character Lady Jessica. [...]

When I left the cinema after the premiere, there was no doubt that Hollywood was still the place where the best films were made. I believe that the second part of the "Dune" will be lit green soon.

Visitors to the Venice Film Festival have been flooding the island of Lido since the early hours of the morning, hoping to see the dune actors at a glance, who have done their job in a very professional manner. The main character Paul, the son of Duke Leto, is embodied in the young heart-eater Timothee Chalamet. Rebecca Ferguson plays his mother, Duchess Jessica, and Duke Leto, Oscar Isaac. R. Ferguson, who appeared on the red carpet at the premiere of "Dune", took away his promise: she wore a beautiful Dior dress decorated with ruffles, and his hair was intertwined at the crown. The ruffles in the dress were somewhat reminiscent of the Dune worm, and the lightened ends of the hair were filmed in "Mission Impossible 7." It was her role in the latter that gained international recognition, although in general it has been noticed in the past.

Rebecca Ferguson was spotted taking a role in the ten episode BBC series “The White Queen”, based on the Cousins War, which analyses the role of women in the Wars of the Roses. It is a great pleasure to watch Ferguson play the fatal 15th century. woman. By the way, she was chosen for [Mission] this role by Tom Cruise himself, who wanted this actress to play with him.

Shortly after her success in the aforementioned series, Rebecca Ferguson began to worry about not becoming an actress in one genre, chosen only for the roles of heroes and strong character. That's why she decided to play the singing lure in the movie "The Greatest Showman," where she performed live with Hugh Jackman and Zendaya, who also starred in Dune. Interestingly, Rebecca Ferguson considered giving up the role of Lady Jessica, a Bene Gesserit, a member of the shadow government who led humanity spiritually and politically, for fear of playing a woman of strong character again. Only director Denis Villeneuve's stubbornness and endless desire to build Dune by assembling the most suitable actors for all roles made Ferguson change his mind and accept, and the actress herself was able to discover the heroine's weaknesses, which she tried to reveal as best she could. And while Ferguson is petty, her penetrating gaze is a great illustration of the phrase "kill by gaze," so it's unequivocally said to be perfect for the role.

"Dune" is a story about a complex fictional society living in the future - in 10191. Mankind has spread and colonized other planets in our galaxy. So the character Rebecca Ferguson becomes a fatal woman not only in the past but also in the future. However, despite the roles she plays, the actress herself seems relaxed in real life, confident. This is even reflected in a woman’s clothing: she chooses comfortable clothes, but still looks very elegant. At the interview, the actress wore a black knitted dress designed by Bella Freud, the granddaughter of the famous psychologist Sigmund Freud. Her dark red hair was tied in a loose tuft. When I praised Ms Ferguson's appearance, she smiled and said, "It's a very nice compliment, very nice words ... I don't value or analyze my appearance. Vanity can cover very easily, but I know what kind of job I do and that I always have to look good. I work with people who take care of my image, and I can't worry about it myself. "

About working with the Dune team

"It's Denis Villeneuve, so it's a big deal. And working on the set with Timothée Chalamet and Charlotte Rampling is something unrealistic. I don’t know who captivated me the most - the whole process or these people, or everything together. Maybe it's Warner Bros. or their chosen directors, but when I play in their movies, I always feel like in an indie movie. The level of cooperation is the highest, but the environment is warm, cozy and very very fun. When you asked this question, a whirlwind began to spin in my mind: O God, how much was it! Desert, costumes, screams, faces ... "Dune" is a lot of everything. I've seen a previous screening of "Dune" - it turned out to be stretched and boring. However, our work was very intense and fun. Harkonnen's face now rises before my eyes, played by Stellan Skarsgård. There were hints at a previous movie. I can't believe everything has become real. "

About her the role in "Dune"

“Both I and Jessica had to play psychological games, and they were still very emotional. It’s a balance between being a mother and how strongly you believe there are more important, bigger things than being a mother. No one is better than the other, no one wins against the other. And my heroine belongs to the sister of Bene Gesserit, whose members manipulate humanity to achieve the desired result. There is a huge internal conflict going on. She falls in love. We've talked a lot about the fact that when you fall in love, you have a "duty" to bear a child, but all your other duties don't go away. So what do you choose to prioritize? I believe that women also experience such internal conflicts in the real world. That is my identity as a heroine. She has an emotional duty to protect her child, to know what she loves, and to find a balance. Sometimes I confused myself and asked the director for help to move from one emotion to another. ”

About childhood

"I was born in Sweden. My dad is Swedish and my mom is british. So, growing up in a bilingual environment, I was taken to a music school where I sang, I really enjoyed dancing. I dance everywhere and always, so I was invited to the cast of the Swedish series "New Times". Accepted to play, so I missed a lot of lessons in the gymnasium. Maybe our education system is different in our countries, but in Sweden it meant I wouldn’t go to university. So I already had to make a pretty serious decision then. My mother is very wise, her father is no less intelligent, so I had to read a lot of books at home. My parents cared about the right way for me to analyze and raise questions. I had to be an obedient daughter, but I always had the right to object. ”

About the nickname in childhood

"There is a psychiatric hospital in Sweden called Becko (full name is Beckomberga Hospital). It is also easy to shorten my name, Rebecca, in this way. I always hated my nickname. I am also often told that I have similarities to Ingrid Bergman, that fatality. When I am compared to her, I immediately think of A. Hitchcock, the dark, fatal colors - blue, black, gray ... I do not know whether we are compared because we are both Swedish or because we are both considered fatal women. But I quite like this comparison. Bergman, Rebecca, Ingrid, Rebecca (laughs). ”

About self-confidence

"It simply came to our notice then. I am very serious - I do therapy. There have been many different situations in my life. But life is already like that, isn’t it? Divorced parents don't communicate with each other ... what happens to their children? I’m an adult now, and wherever life takes me, even to the darkest corners ... I’m not talking about it. After all, it has nothing to do with what I do and who I am. I think we all get to the point where we have to make the decisions we want to be. I'm moving in that direction. "

About my favorite way to get away from it all

“I usually relax watching a silly comedy series or movie. "Long live love" I have seen it 460 times. No less "How to get rid of a guy in 10 days." I adore English humor. That's how I somehow run away from everything when I need it. "

About success

“I look at people who want to become actors and when I ask myself questions, how did it all happen to me? To be fair, I think I was just lucky. It all started with one Swedish film, then I met an amazing agent who sent me to the first international screening. I was lucky for the fourth time, and the role was nominated for the Golden Globe. I was nominated for Best Actress for a role in a crazy series. I remember my last name next to Helen Mirren, Helen Bonham Carter, Elisabeth Moss, who were awarded for acting in the TV series "At the Top of the Lake." I was in the same room with the people I admired.”

I’ve always felt like a simple Swedish girl who doesn’t belong in this big world of cinema. But I got a role in The Mission Impossible. The processes was already underway and it was clear that this would be something big. I like to collaborate with better ones than myself. It was very, very lucky. I can’t look at myself on screen and say I’m amazing, and after a day of filming, go out to the filming site saying I worked great. I always criticize myself. That's my job. But I am very grateful to the people I work with. ”

About future plans

“It simply came to my notice then. I feel like I’m in the process of going. And sometimes I seem to stand still. But I love creating. I watch Margot Robbie, who I think is a great actress, a professional. I have great respect for her and her work. I would like to be more involved in all the processes, perhaps setting up a family film company. I see a lot of things in the future, but I don’t think I’m translating a new page in life today. I just know I want to create. And most of all in Sweden. I haven't started it yet. "