Alicia Vikander Says She Felt ‘Most Sad’ at the Height of Her Fame
25.07.2022 - 15:01
/ variety.com
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Irma Vep” star Alicia Vikander has reminisced about her early years in the spotlight in a new interview with The Times of London, saying she was “the most sad at the height of [her] fame.”The 33-year-old Swedish actress, who broke through internationally with Nikolaj Arcel’s Oscar-nominated “A Royal Affair” in 2012, became a global star after knockout back-to-back performances in the sci-fi thriller “Ex Machina” and transgender romance “Danish Girl,” the latter of which earned her a best supporting actress Oscar in 2016. But during that time, Vikander said she felt lonelier than ever.“When, in other people’s eyes, I was at my height of fame, I was the most sad. I kept telling myself, ‘Take it in.
It is incredible.’ But I didn’t know what to do. There were all these first-class flights, five-star rooms. But I was always by myself.
I was by myself,” Vikander told The Times. Right around that time, in 2015, it was reported that she and her then-boyfriend Michael Fassbender, who is now her husband, had split up. She now lives in Lisbon, Portugal, with Fassbender and their 17-month-old baby.Vikander also alluded to her personal experience with miscarriage, a theme that was tackled in the melodrama “The Light Between Oceans,” in which she stars opposite Fassbender.
“Talk about meta,” said Vikander, who met Fassbender while filming the Derek Cianfrance-directed movie. “We have a child now, but it took us time,” she said.“The Light Between Oceans” has “another meaning now,” Vikander continued. “[The miscarriage] was so extreme, painful to go through and, of course, it made me recall making that film.”Vikander, who shot HBO limited series “Irma Vep” in Paris three months after they
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