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Alicia Vikander
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21 Interesting Facts About Alicia Vikander
- #001
One of Alicia Vikander's favorite experiences during the production of Anna Karenina (2012) was shooting in the Russian countryside outside St. Petersburg. Temperatures dropped to -40 °C, and for five days she stayed in a cabin with no hot water and benches instead of beds. Russian security guards protected her and co-star Domhnall Gleeson from the wolves and bears that roamed the desolate area.
- #002
While filming The Light Between Oceans (2016), Alicia Vikander met her current husband Michael Fassbender, who plays her husband in the film.
- #005
Director Tom Hooper postponed the production of The Danish Girl (2015) until Alicia Vikander finished filming The Light Between Oceans (2016) so that he could rely on her for the role of Gerda.
- #006
Alicia Vikander left Assassin's Creed (2016) and The Circle (2017) to make Jason Bourne (2016) instead. She was replaced by Ariane Labed in Assassin's Creed and by Emma Watson in The Circle.
- #007
The directors Alicia Vikander dreams of working with are Lars von Trier, Terrence Malick and Quentin Tarantino.
- #009
In an interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (2014), Alicia Vikander stated that she did most of her own stunts in Tomb Raider (2018), some of which she had to repeat.
- #010
Alicia Vikander took the role of Kitty in Anna Karenina (2012) after Saoirse Ronan turned it down, and she took the role of Alice in Seventh Son (2014) after Jennifer Lawrence dropped out of the production.
- #012
Before learning the Danish she had to use in A Royal Affair (2012), Alicia Vikander was able to practice all her lines because a friend of her mother recorded them onto her iPhone.
- #015
Alicia Vikander grew up in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- #016
During the period when the series was first staged, Alicia Vikander appeared for three years in the Swedish musical Kristina From Duvemala, written by former ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.
- #017
In February 2015, Alicia Vikander was signed as the new face of Louis Vuitton.
- #018
Alicia Vikander has appeared in two period works set in Denmark, the neighboring country of her native Sweden: A Royal Affair (2012) and The Danish Girl (2015).
- #020
In 2011 she was selected by European Film Promotion as one of the Shooting Stars of European cinema.
- #022
She is the daughter of Maria Fahl and the psychiatrist Svante Vikander.
- #023
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph in August 2015, she confirmed that she and Michael Fassbender were a couple. They met in 2014 during the filming of The Light Between Oceans (2016).
- #024
She shared the cover of Vanity Fair's 2016 Hollywood issue with Jane Fonda, Viola Davis, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Rachel Weisz, Lupita Nyong'o, Brie Larson, Charlotte Rampling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton and Saoirse Ronan. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.
- #030
An accomplished Swedish folk dancer, in January 2016 she became the first guest in the history of The Tonight Show to perform the Frog Dance on stage with host Jimmy Fallon on the eve of Swedish Midsummer.
- #038
She is one of two dancers/actresses to have played artificial life forms. Summer Glau, a prima ballerina, played a cyborg in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008). Alicia was also a ballerina who played an android in Ex Machina (2014).
- #042
Alicia Vikander was included in Maxim magazine's 2018 list of the Top 100 Women.
- #043
Alicia Vikander was included in Maxim magazine's 2017 list of the Hottest 100 Women.
- #045
Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo are Alicia Vikander's best friends.
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