Renate Reinsve On Her Return to Cannes With ‘Armand’, “The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done”
deadline.comBefore making Joachim Trier’s 2021 hit The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve was about to jack it all in. Three years later — after A Different Man, with Sebastian Stan, Another Life, with Gael García Bernal, and Handling the Undead, a chiller from Let the Right One In writer John Ajvide Lindqvist — she now finds herself not just back in Cannes but doing double duty at the Sundance, Berlin and Tribeca film festivals (“It’s a running joke that I have two movies everywhere”).
Reinsve takes the lead in the Swedish drama Armand, directed by Ingmar Bergman’s grandson Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel. DEADLINE: What can you tell us about how you were cast in Armand? RENATE REINSVE: Halfdan, the director, approached me 10 years ago, and we did a short movie together.
I think we did it in two days. Afterwards, we both stood there with tears in our eyes, because we’d had such a deep artistic connection.
We knew we had to do something again, so he started to write this movie back then. I followed it through all his drafts. Eventually I became executive producer, because after everything exploded in my life after Cannes the last time, when I won the Best Actress Award, it became easier to get this movie financed.
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