alicia and keira

Alicia Vikander for Marie Claire France, November 2019.

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It’s an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: ‘Wow, I’m not the person I thought I was. I’m in the middle of something and I can’t actually deal with it.’

If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

Alicia Vikander photographed by Peter Lindbergh for the Pirelli Calendar 2017

Alicia Vikander by Caitlin Cronenberg

Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child.

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in ‘Les Miserables’ and 'The Sound of Music,’ and my mum’s an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn’t find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

Female stories and female voices are very often missed out on, completely. Very often in every section of culture women are lost.

And we’re fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don’t have that.

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don’t have any rehearsal time in film. You don’t shape it together… with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn’t the film side.

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“All of us are surrounded by ghosts. Now we need to learn to live with them.”                                                                             –Testament of Youth (2014, dir. James Kent)

Alicia Vikander for Modern Weekly, September 2016.