Short model
- Tobias Santelmann has chosen to play Harry Hole within the Netflix sequence based mostly on Jo Nesbø’s guide “Marekors”
- Pia Tjelta and Swedish Joel Kinnaman will play Rakel Fauke and Tom Waaler within the sequence
- The sequence is being filmed in Oslo this week, and can start airing in 2026
Sea view
– It’s virtually unusual. Tobias was the primary identify we considered, Jo Nesbø advised VG.
– It was virtually too apparent. So we determined to take a full spherical – and see what alternatives have been right here.
On Tuesday morning, Harry Hole drove to his hometown: Schrøder restaurant in Oslo – and Netflix blocked the highway with nice safety.
Jo Nesbø, Joel Kinnaman, Pia Tjelta, Tobias Santelmann and Øystein Karlsen. Photo: Helge Mikalsen / VG
Netflix and Jo Nesbø tried to maintain the information of the primary roles a secret, however it broke within the US The Hollywood Reporter Monday night.
Apart from Tobias Santelmann who performs the position of Harry Hole, it was additionally clear who will play the lady within the lifetime of Harry Hole, Rakel, and his evil associate Tom Waaler: Pia Tjelta and Joel Kinnaman from Sweden.
– Very good, good to have the ability to say that, mentioned Tobias Santelmann in regards to the information on Tuesday morning.
You have ready your self by studying books and finding out scriptures.
Pia Tjelta has by no means doubted that she desires Rakel Fauke’s place:
– It was a no brainer. I did not go for it, so to talk. I’m a bloodthirsty individual. I’ve a detailed and robust love affair with Harry Hole’s books, he says.
Joel Kinnaman from Sweden, recognized amongst different issues from “Snabba money”, has by no means learn Harry Hole’s books earlier than.
– I learn them now, and I like them, he says in VG.
– I’m wanting ahead to this. It’s a really thrilling and difficult position, and the entire script is well-crafted, well-acted – and intensely satisfying, Kinnaman mentioned.
It was in March of this 12 months that the information that Jo Nesbø’s legal hero Harry Hole will get a brand new life on the display that Netflix wager massive on a TV sequence based mostly on the guide “Marekors”.
Last week, VG was on the hunt for Harry – and the hunt led us right here.
And IT’S Tobias Santelmann from Norway to play Harry.
Jo Nesbø tells VG that they’ve an extended and thorough course of behind them.
– We have turned over many stones. We needed to be completely certain. There have been a couple of skilled individuals who mentioned they’d by no means been concerned in a casting course of as intense because the one we went via.
But finally they find yourself again to sq. one: The first phrase they considered.
– We introduced primarily three others who have been actually good, however we went all the way in which and got here again once more: It needed to be Tobias.
And Santelmann should have delivered a superb pattern.
– He received the position as a result of he is an efficient actor. Easy. Here we’ve an actor who exhibits a really particular understanding of the character, says Nesbø and explains:
– If he acts a seven on a scale from 1 to 10 – and we ask him to alter it to an eight – then he delivers an eight. Not 9 or ten. That may be very tough, and never many individuals can do it.
Nesbø says that it was not so essential that the actor ought to seem like Harry Hole.
– We have been very nervous that it needs to be somebody who brings out the identical jokes of weltschmerz and gallows. That combination of humor and darkness that’s so acquainted to Harry.
– But on the similar time, there are lots of college students who’ve a Harry Hole of their internal eye, and they need to be allowed to maintain that Harry Hole. And I feel they’re doing that now, says Nesbø.
– What about your internal Harry picture?
– I do not know if I’ve a transparent image, I noticed him principally out of the nook of my eye. I’ve a liquid picture of Harry, mentioned Nesbø.
The guide “Marekors” begins with Harry Hole coming to her condominium – fully drunk. And she was dumped by her boyfriend.
At the identical time, small black lumps start to drip from the ground of one other condominium – in Oslo hit by a warmth wave.
This can be the place the TV sequence begins – and we comply with Harry who finds a brand new job when a girl is discovered murdered along with her index finger minimize off. But what he has to work with is Tom Waaler, the cop Harry is aware of is the one who killed his colleague.
The sequence goes by the working title “Harry Hole” – and is a Scandinavian drama sequence that takes place in and round Oslo. Filming begins in Oslo already this week and it’ll premiere in 2026.
– The plan is to create an Oslo that’s barely totally different from the true Oslo. 90 % actuality and 10 % journey.
– I envision a Gotham City model of Oslo, Jo Nesbø advised VG earlier this spring.
He insists they’ve a whole lot of work forward of them:
– The work begins in two days and can final for greater than 100 days. Together we’ll design this character, and attempt to create a model of the TV sequence of Harry Hole that’s each near Harry Hole from the books, however on the similar time additionally has part of the character that the actor has in him.
He himself is near the undertaking: He is the so-called runner within the TV sequence and wrote the script himself.
– If it does not go nicely this time, I’m to not blame, Nesbø advised VG when the information was launched.
Øystein Karlsen, who amongst different issues had nice success with “Get Out”, will direct the TV sequence.
He says the residents of Oslo will see the footage.
– There are 108 days and 178 locations since we begin on Thursday. It will likely be a touring circus.
British firm Working Title is the producer. This is identical firm that produced the movie “Snømannen”, which was fully slain by critics in autumn 2017.
But there is no such thing as a cause to doubt that cause, Nesbø believes:
– No, it is fairly the alternative. It says one thing that the “Snowman” producer is “hanging in there”. They have continued to consider in Harry all these years – they usually have a whole lot of religion in us, Nesbø advised VG when the TV sequence was introduced.