In the new Discovery + drama series “All you love”, the childhood girlfriends Sara, played by Mina Dale, and Jonas, played by Jakob Fort, meet again by chance when a subway is evacuated in central Oslo.
They find each other again, but eventually Sara discovers that Jonas is carrying a dark secret. He is about to be radicalized through a far-right online universe, where a separate worldview is cultivated and terrorists are described as saints.
On Thursday, the series premiered, and series creator Marie Hafting says that she had to do thorough research prior to the recording – including in research and literature, in addition to collaborating with the Police Security Service.
She wanted to find out how young boys, like Jonas, could be radicalized.
– You can look at classic vulnerability factors, and then we often have traumas you have experienced in life, exclusion, connection to society when it comes to school and work and finances also come into play. These are the classic vulnerability factors, which often apply just as much to right-wing extremists as to those who are radicalized into IS.
See the full interview at the top of the case!
Radicalized through forums
Hafting explains that the character Jonas has a critical view of society today, which she thinks many young people recognize themselves in. Then this gaze develops into something darker and more hateful.
This is when these various online forums, which exist in reality, come into play.
– MADE A DEEP DIVE: To make the series as believable as possible, series creator Marie Hafting spent several years researching and developing her latest project. Here with actor Jakob Fort. Photo: Good morning Norway
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– Today there are many good forums online and there is a lot of important socialization among young people that takes place online, but then there are some branches of various forums and places, where there is a subculture where young people discuss politically incorrect opinions. There is a lot of propaganda and “memes” that play on humor and that have a seemingly funny jargon, but which are really deeply fascist and anti-human, she says and continues:
– The more you are there, the faster the radicalization goes. That is the big difference between those who were radicalized before and the young guys who are being radicalized now. There is always someone out there who is ready to discuss a little, who can teach you more, send you PDFs and make you go even deeper.
Jakob Fort (22) says that it is difficult to put his finger on exactly what happens to the character Jonas during the series.
– I would describe Jonas as basically a smart guy, who is curious and ambitious, but he also has a need for belonging and a need to feel smart to get recognition. He got this on this forum and it is an important factor, I think, he says and adds:
– He has been disappointed several times during his life. He had a dream of joining the military, but did not get it and then he struggled to find his place in society. He also found like-minded people online and began to dive into this darkness.
First lead role
This is the 22-year-old’s first leading role. He sees the whole thing as a big vote of confidence, at the same time as he admits that he was nervous about the character he was going to enter.
To prepare for the role, Fort had many conversations with series creator Hafting.
– PLAYS RIGHT EXTREME: In the drama series, Jakob Fort plays the role of Jonas. Here with co-star Mina Dale, who plays her boyfriend Sara. Photo: Discovery +
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– First and foremost, I have talked a lot with Marie, since she has done the thorough research. I have seen some documentaries, but then we made an active choice that I should not spend the whole summer diving into these forums myself and, but that I should rather understand how Jonas had these opinions, what has happened and where it went wrong. Also, we should keep the focus on that it is a love story and.
Hafting points out that such series exist for us to be able to live into the character in order to understand some better – for better or worse. She hopes they have done that.
– One should not get out of it with a conclusion and lessons with two lines under the answer, but maybe we can get a greater insight into those people and into Jonas and what happens to young people.
– I think it is important that people make up their own opinion and that people make up some reflections about it, Fort adds.
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