Noomi Rapace i ”Constellation”.
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Noomi Rapace at the premiere of the TV series “The New look”.
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Intense and a kind of journey to different “emotional places”,
This is how Noomi Rapace, 44, describes the filming of “Constellation”, the series in which she plays the main role of Jo Ericsson, an astronaut who returns to Earth and discovers that several parts of her life are not at all as they should be.
– The last day, when the recording was over, felt a little surreal. I started to cry. It was like I returned to reality and my own life again, says Noomi Rapace.
Noomi Rapace plays the role of Jo Ericsson in “Constellation”.
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“Constellation” airs on Apple TV Plus.
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Briton Peter Harness, the series’ creator and main writer, lives in Sweden. For him, no other actor than Noomi Rapace was in mind for the lead role. Harness even tells Expressen that Rapace “was born to play this role”.
– When she got the scripts, she was almost annoyed. She had intended to take six months off, but felt she had to do this. I don’t want to speak for her, but as I feel this story is a kind of mirror of things that Noomi has experienced and been through in her own life, says Peter Harness.
Unsurprisingly, Noomi Rapace agrees:
– Yes, it really feels like this series was written for me. When I read the scripts, I felt that Peter has been keeping track of what happened in my life. It was almost a little scary.
She sits next to the actor Jonathan Banks, who is known from “Breaking bad” and “Better call Saul”, and plays one of the other supporting roles in “Constellation”. Banks says he “doesn’t envy Rapace” given some of the scenes she was forced to do.
– Physically, this was a demanding recording, that part was intense. What was also challenging was that this was a kind of journey to different places within me, but it also gave me a lot, says Noomi Rapace.
Here you also get the opportunity to switch between Swedish and English. Was it your idea?
– No, that’s how it was written. Since I moved to London with my son several years ago, it’s something we’ve done too. The way my character and her daughter talk to each other is similar to the way my son and I talk to each other.
– We change from Swedish to English all the time. Above all, if we disagree about something, then we take it in Swedish so that no one else understands what we are talking about, says Noomi Rapace and laughs.
She takes a new bet. A little more serious. Once again, Rapace highlights how close she feels that the story in “Constellation” is her own life.
– What happens Well emotionally and how much she loves her job and how much she is ready to invest while wanting to be a mother and is a mother who loves her child most of all… that is one of the biggest challenges in my life, finding that balance between work and being a mother.
“Constellation”
# TV series by Peter Harness premiering February 21 on Apple TV Plus. Michelle MacLaren, Oliver Hirschbiegel and Joseph Cedar direct the eight episodes.
# The cast includes Noomi Rapace, Jonathan Banks, James D’Arcy, Julian Looman, William Catlett, Barbara Sukowa and Rosie and Davina Coleman.
# “Constellation” is about the astronaut Jo. When she returns to Earth after a failed space voyage, she discovers that certain parts of her life are not as they should be. More about the plot: “The action-packed space adventure explores the darkness of the human psyche and one woman’s desperate search for the truth about the hidden history of space travel, with the hope of regaining all she has lost.”
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