– I believe there might be loads of brown alcohol, he laughs when VG asks about preparations for a brand new TV position as an alcoholic crime hero who goes out with Jo Nesbøs.
– No, then. I did not take pleasure in amber, however I did a couple of different issues. For instance, I bought used to capturing.
– But it was extra about attending to know Harry. Know his pores and skin, his physique, his relationships – and his mind-set, Santelmann advised VG.
The most essential factor was to assemble the power to start out recording, he believes.
– I attempted to relaxation as a lot as doable, as a result of the subsequent day tomorrow it actually rains, and it’ll proceed to rain till the tip of November.
– More than the rest, I must have sufficient gasoline within the tank, so I keep all the way in which, mentioned Santelmann to VG.
– It’s full
The Swedish Hollywood star Joel Kinnaman, 44, didn’t even final an entire day of publication – the place he slept with Pia Tjelta and Pia Tjelta. Tobias Santelmann whereas they have been being interviewed.
SLEEPING BEAUTY: Corrupt police detective Tom Waaler is performed by Swedish star Joel Kinnaman. Photo: Camilla Norli/VG
What he himself predicted would occur:
– I used to be so left by the airplane that I used to be afraid to fall, he joked with the gathered press staff shortly after arriving at Schrøder within the new Lotus Emira whose character Tom Waaler will drive within the TV collection that premieres on Netflix in 2026. .
Kinnaman is thought for TV collection like “The Killing”, “For All Mankind” and “House of Cards” and flicks like “Fast Money” and “RoboCop”.
Also on the press convention, he had his canine:
– There was completely no appearing
According to Jo Nesbø, Tobias Santelmann was the primary identify they thought-about for the position of Harry Hole.
– That’s good to listen to. But I’m very completely satisfied that we ended up there, mentioned Santelmann.
Because there was loads of backwards and forwards within the casting course of, she reveals.
– Each casting course of may be very completely different, and right here I used to be COMPLETELY out for some time. At one level I used to be in, however then they moved on – after which I did not actually care. Then they got here again once more – and very quickly I used to be inside.
– That’s how it’s in our business. This is a personality that I’d like to make a lot of my pretty, stunning and gifted colleagues. They are my finest pals, and on the identical time you find yourself preventing for a similar roles. So you must give your good colleagues what you aren’t getting, says Santelmann, who has succeeded on this.
– I’m completely satisfied to be proven belief. This is sort of a venture.
– A particular love relationship
The key to the character Harry Hole lies in Jo Nesbø, Santelmann believes:
– This is the entire place that Jo has had in her wonderful head for 25 years, and it was essential for me to have many conversations together with her. I’ve been attempting to determine the place Harry is from Jo – form of. Nobody is aware of Harry Hole higher than he does, however now I’m going to take over. Not the Harry of the books, however the Harry of this TV world, Santelmann mentioned.
Pia Tjelta (46) is trying ahead to enjoying with Santelmann – her classmate on the Theater Academy.
– I’m very completely satisfied that we’ll be working collectively.
– We know one another very properly, says Tjelta, who believes that the love relationship between Rakel and Harry is one thing very particular:
– It exhibits a love that’s fully unimaginable, however on the identical time a love that’s fully inevitable. There is a magnetism between these two that makes dropping one another very costly.
– At the identical time, it’s dearer to like a sophisticated boy like Harry Hole, mentioned Tjelta.
She herself loves Harry Hole’s books – and by no means doubted that she needed the position of Rakel:
– It was a no brainer. I did not go for it, so to talk. I’m a bloodthirsty particular person. I’ve an in depth and robust love affair with Harry Hole’s books, he says.
The title might be “Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole”
Netflix has now confirmed that the collection might be titled “Harry Hole by Jo Nesbø” – and it’s doable to tell apart this from the style of the film “Snowman”. The movie about Harry Hole was fully killed by critics within the fall of 2017.
– This might be Jos Harry Hole. Harry’s all his. And I believe it is going to be fascinating for his readers to see a movie adaptation of that. Jo wrote this textual content herself, and I get the identical feeling from her books. The script is extraordinarily good, Nesbø’s agent, Niclas Salomonsson advised VG final week.
Read an interview with Jo Nesbø about why it was Tobias Santelmann!