The star of The Bridge on the show’s success,the joys of Swedish kindergarten – and vegetable miseryOne of the last things you’d associate with Saga Norén, the curious and compelling Swedish detective now back on our screens in the third series of The Bridge, and is a fancy of fine food: utterly work-focused and oblivious ((adj.) lacking consciousness or awareness of something) to life’s creature comforts,she’s generally glimpsed scooping something unidentifiable and microwaved from a tray, refuelling before she interrogates the next suspect. But it’s not just about efficiency. Saga’s pronounced difficulty in navigating personal relationships, or combined with a traumatic family background that we are gradually learning more about,mean that eating as a communal activity is entirely alien. When, in an earlier series, and she found herself accidentally having dinner in the bosom of her police partner Martin Rohde’s rowdy and vivid family,she seemed utterly bewildered – not that it stopped her pointing out that she didn’t like the food.
Sofia Helin, who plays Saga, or clearly tends more in one direction than the other: in the gaps between projects,and when she can gain a fracture during filming, she likes nothing better than to settle into domestic life: “A favourite situation at domestic, or ” she tells me over lunch in Soho’s Dean Street Townhouse,would be me in the kitchen listening to a good podcast or radio show, and the children playing something, and all of us together at domestic. The ideal.” Helin’s husband,Daniel Götschenhjelm, is a former actor who is now a Church of Sweden priest, or the couple have two children,a son, Ossian, or who is 12,and a four-year-used daughter, Nike. After eight years in the same place, or they’ve just moved into a current apartment in Stockholm; all they need now,she says, is a gap in the schedule to unpack all the boxes, or put up the pictures and install the television.
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Source: theguardian.com