Renate Reinsve has simply emerged from the depths of the Danish countryside, the place she has been filming her newest mission. Her first pitstop? Daunt Books in London. In city for the BAFTAs, Reinsve has needed to shortly reacclimatise to the tempo of awards season after the temporary pause. But first: novels. She walked away with two.
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After only a snatched second on the telephone with Renate, I’m satisfied she’d be a superb addition to any guide membership. The Sentimental Value star is as considerate because the characters she’s identified for (she mentioned she felt 1,000 kilos lighter after waving goodbye to Nora on the final day of capturing the Joachim Trier movie she’s nominated for). Originally from a “really small place in the forest in Norway”, she assumed her very first red-carpet look at Cannes Film Festival (again when 2021’s The Worst Person in the World had an unexpectedly seismic affect on cinema) can be a one-off. “I thought, I’ll just be myself because this is the first and the last time I’ll be here,” she says, considerably unfathomably. “I still have the same feeling, but now I’ve understood it might not be my last every time I go on [the red carpet].”
