#Trine dyrholm series#

In Charlotte Sieling’s film, we see this singular, authoritative female figure engineer a truce between the perpetually embattled Scandinavian countries through the foundation of the Kalmar Union, a regional alliance that held for more than a century. Maternal and political dilemma: Trine Dyrholm in Margrete: Queen of the North. What we don’t know is whether it was him or not, but a lot of historians now are discussing that.” Of course, we made up some stuff in the film, but it’s based on historical facts and we know how it ended. “This story about her son is just a sentence in the history books. “The only thing basically I knew about her was that she was the person who unified the north,” she says. A few weeks before, for reasons unknown, he had been set free.Īccording to Dyrholm, the return of the missing king is now no more than a footnote in history books to the much larger story of Margrete’s extraordinary success as a political leader and negotiator. In 1402, a young man claiming to be her biological son returned home more than 15 years after he was supposedly assassinated, saying he had actually been held captive in Germany. It draws on the true story of the first Queen Margrete, who ruled Denmark from the late 1380s until her death in 1412, ostensibly as regent to her adopted son Erik. We are discussing Margrete: Queen of the North, a medieval costume drama about power, morality and a ruler’s internal battle between private sentiment and public duty. I mean I felt privileged before, but turning 50 is definitely something I really like.” “I don’t know why, but I feel so privileged after turning 50. “To be in nature, that’s what it’s about.” She is hugely pleased with being 50. It’s going to be so nice!” she says excitedly. “We just have to pack a lot of wine and buy a lot of food and drive to the island. There will also be a trip on an old sailing boat – not their own boat, she adds hastily, as if worried about seeming overly grand. She and her husband both turned 50 this year and they are having a family celebration in a small cottage on an island. When I speak to her, she is packing to go away for the weekend.

#Trine dyrholm series#

Whether playing the founder of a hippie commune, a faith healer, Velvet Underground singer Nico, or Gro, the Viking gallerist vying for control of the family estate in the Scandi series The Legacy, she incarnates every character with an immediate vitality that makes you temporarily forget that you have ever seen her play anything else. Right now, for the record, let’s establish that Trine Dyrholm is not an answer to anybody else. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text sizeĪ few years ago, an article in a British paper described Trine Dyrholm as Denmark’s answer to Helen Mirren.