Sweden's Persbrandt signs up for Hobbit role
Published: 3 Dec 10 12:35 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/30598/20101203/
Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt has landed a role in the sequel to "Lord of the Rings", according to the Aftonbladet daily.
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According to an unnamed Aftonbladet source, Persbrandt's role remains unclear but it will have a "Nordic" connection, and it is reported that he has already fitted his clothing for the part.
Mikael Persbrandt, perhaps best known for his role as Gunvald Larsson in the Beck films, will thus become the latest of a string of Swedish actors making the step to Hollywood. Known as something of a tough guy, both privately and publicly, Persbrandt has long stated ambitions to move into English language film.
The rugged 47-year-old received praise for his portrayal, in Susanne Bier's latest epic "In a Better World", of Anton - a doctor dividing his time between an idyllic town in Denmark and an African refugee camp.
In January 2009 he won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a leading role, for his part in "Everlasting Moments".
Persbrandt's work on "The Hobbit" is scheduled to take place over a couple of weeks in the beginning of 2011, according to Aftonbladet, with the film's US premier set for December 2012.
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Denmark is a state while Africa is a continent and all of it is not a refugee camp (be more specific rather than throw your blanket of ignorance over the continent).
Improve your journalism, it is in part meant to educate the reader not confuse them.
I guess even in the realm of fantasy one can't be too careful in making sure you always display your ethnicity as a "pure" Swede, huh? Wouldn't want to be confused with the riff-raff. Geez, can we not have one article that doesn't display the boundaries between immigrants and Swedes? Why the emphasis on making sure the Swedish actor posterboy has a "Nordic" connection in a fantasy world?
And don't throw the past away
You might need it some rainy day
Dreams can come true again
When ev'rything old is new again
As for journalism, not sure why they called The Hobbit a sequel to LOTR when it is clearly a prequel, as also denoted later in the article.
Even though it doesn't specify what African country he's in in that one movie, it's not really that important for the article, is it?
The Hobbit will never be a sequel to LOTR, despite it coming out in theatres after LOTR. It will always be a prequel, because we are referring to the content and timeline of the actual story, and not real life movie release dates. The only way it could be a sequel is if the content was entirely rearranged to appear as though the evnets in the movie are occuring AFTER the LOTR events. But then it would be an entirely different movie altogether, eh?