baba-yaga-not-only:VINTERBERG: When you make a movie, you always say, “I’ve never done a movie like
baba-yaga-not-only:VINTERBERG: When you make a movie, you always say, “I’ve never done a movie like this before.” But in this case, it was really true. I’ve never done a movie like this before. Already from writing this script, this was an untameable beast that wanted to go in all sorts of different directions. It wanted one scene with you, where you so tender and crying. And then it wanted another scene with you and your friends, making slapstick comedy, buying codfish in a store. And it insisted on having those two scenes in the same movie, which normally would have been curated and equalized and tamed. And so, the only way to work with this film was to let it be beyond our control somehow. Of course, there was a script, and there was an editing process—it was not complete anarchy, but there was something. There was a soul in the narrative in this movie that was so complicated to control.MIKKELSEN: I agree. I remember that it was very stringent, in the sense that you have the arcs of the character, the characters were there, and there was a logic to the characters. But in some places, the logic kind of disappeared, because it was an uncontrollable film. It felt like an uncontrollable beast we were working on, and that was kind of new to me.VINTERBERG: It’s interesting, because you’re talking about the uncontrollable, which is a word that I love these days. And uncontrollable showed itself in many ways. The film is about that. It’s about the joy of letting go of control, but also, I experienced the ultimate loss of control by losing the life of my daughter. So we were just there, in some turmoil of emotion. We’re professional enough to pull off making a movie, but it was like a current that we both floated with. It was amazing. I’ll never forget that. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/thomas-vinterberg-mads-mikkelsen-reflect-on-another-round -- source link