Alicia Vikander Opens Up About Portraying Miscarriages After Experiencing Her Own ‘Painful’ Infertility Struggles

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Taking her broken heart into her art. Alicia Vikander opened up about portraying character who experience miscarriages after dealing with her own pregnancy loss.“We have a child now, but it took us time,” the actress told London’s The Times in an interview published on Sunday, July 24, while promoting Irma Vep.In the new Sky Atlantic TV show, Vikander, 33, plays a pop star who suffers a miscarriage and is told to perform on stage right after.

She also played a character who experienced two separate miscarriages in The Light Between Oceans, the movie where she met husband Michael Fassbender in 2014.The Tomb Raider star, who welcomed her first child with Fassbender, 45, in 2021, said that playing out these scenarios can “totally” help actors cope with such trauma. “[The miscarriage] was so extreme, painful to go through and, of course, it made me recall making that film [The Light Between Oceans],” she said. “That film has another meaning now.”Like her Irma Vep character, Vikander said celebrities are often told that the show must go on even when their personal lives are falling apart.“Sometimes you go through things that are tough in life and if you have an office job you can step away for a bit,” she explained. “But there are times that myself or colleagues have been through something and, well, I can’t understand how they went on to the red carpet afterwards.

To be met by people asking, ‘How are you doing?’ Given what they had just been through? Most people would not be able to step out of their house.”The Sweden native was able to avoid such situations during her own pregnancy loss.

She previously revealed she struggled with miscarriages in the early parts of the coronavirus pandemic, so she had the luxury of keeping