Aside from the physically demanding, and at times comical toll, the role took on Frida I wonder how carrying around the trauma of playing a survivor of sexual assault impacted her and how she prepared for it? “Partly relying on personal experiences of trauma, but also reading a lot about trauma survivors,” she responds.
“It's always really intense when you place really dark and heavy traumatic feelings on certain physical aspects, because it becomes so real,” Frida adds. “Your body doesn't know that you're acting, your brain can comprehend that, but when you go through really exhausting physical things, your body reacts like it's a real trauma.
Aside from the show’s hair and makeup teams figuratively and mentally transporting her to the Viking era, and back again, a tip from her intimacy co-ordinator helped, too. “We came up with a little ritual of hugging myself, saying certain things and doing a little tap either before or after you do an intimate scene. I implemented that into the other really physically traumatic scenes, especially when Freydis gives birth, her baby is kidnapped and she’s left to bleed out and die.
Bringing that trauma to screen is beyond powerful, as is Freydis’ inability to adhere to any stereotype of what you may expect from a female character. And even though they lived over a thousand years ago, Viking women were game changers ahead of their time, which is something Frida is proud to bring to our screens.
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