{"id":13165,"date":"2019-06-17T13:25:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?p=13165"},"modified":"2019-06-17T13:25:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:25:55","slug":"16th-of-june-morning-discussion-with-pernilla-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/16th-of-june-morning-discussion-with-pernilla-august\/","title":{"rendered":"16th of June: Morning discussion with Pernilla August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Sunday morning discussion, Swedish actor-director <\/span><b>Pernilla August <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">told the audience lively stories about her long career in film and theatre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">August grew up in S\u00f6dermalm, Stockholm where she lived with her mother after her parents divorced when Pernilla was two-years-old. August\u2019s photographer father influenced her relationship with camera from early on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cI can see in my eyes that I\u2019m very aware of that I\u2019m looking through the lens into him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a child and later a teenager, August made use of the tricks of theatre in school. She didn\u2019t consider it acting but merely her way of being. Already at the age of eight she discovered how to create a contact with the audience. August says that intuition is her most important tool in working. At the age of 15 she ended up acting in a commercial by <\/span><b>Roy Andersson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through a friend\u2019s father. Afterwards Andersson asked August to play a small role in his movie, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Giliap <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1972). It was at that time when August really started to get excited about filmmaking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI want to be with all these people on the other side of the camera. They seem to have so much fun over there. I didn\u2019t think I want to be an actor, more I wanted to be a part of crew.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was still in the middle of her theatre studies when she got offered a role in <\/span><b>Ingmar Bergman\u2019s<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fanny and Alexander<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1985). It caused some problems as it was forbidden to act in movies during her studies. August\u2019s situation was solved by organizing a voting with the students and the staff, which, she says was horrible. She describes Bergman as a brilliant writer and a director with a personal touch who was mostly whispering instructions. August ended up in <\/span><b>George Lucas\u2019s <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Wars <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">movies after getting to know the producer <\/span><b>Rick McCallum<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the filming of the tv show <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In the filming of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Phantom Menace<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1999) August was at first nervous about her English and accent but Lucas assured her she shouldn\u2019t worry as her character is from a Swedish galaxy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later on, as a director August has been able to live her dream of being behind the camera. For her the most important thing as a filmmaker is to create a sensation that what is being filmed is realistic because it\u2019s the only way to make a contact with the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To a desert island Agustin would take <\/span><b>John Cassavetes\u2019s <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Woman Under the Influence <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1974).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Juho Liukkonen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the Sunday morning discussion, Swedish actor-director Pernilla August told the audience lively stories about her long career in film and theatre. August grew up in S\u00f6dermalm, Stockholm where she lived with her mother after her parents divorced when Pernilla was two-years-old. 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