| Show Lana was at bar Stockholm houaa whan j I called “If tha cold Mason" iha said "Not paally too cold but I hava a Lana’s cold mother and father are both actors Her father was in isanaroue Ingmar Bergman films and young Lana Swedish Personal: Born March 22 1956 in Stockholm Sweden Married to Lism Hallatrdm 199- 4- Ona ion August K) and one daughter Tore 3 Films: Include 77m adventures of Picasso 1978: Finny and 4leaander 1983: after thm Rehearsal 1984: Flight Month meet 4 Matter of Lift and Death 1988: The Uneearabte Lightness of Being 1988: Friends 1988: Enemies 4 Lone Story 1989: Havana 1990: Might Falla on Manhattan 1997: Pohah Wedding 1997 Television: Include Walleneerg: 4 Hero' a Story 1985 TTieatex: Include Ming Lear 1984: Mill Julie 1991 first met the director at a party when iha was 17 After graduating from drama school The Ingmar habitually casts same actors ova ova in his films plays much as John Lana Joined Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre and started woHiing for Bergman both on stage used to cast John and in films It was her stage and Ward How then did performance as Cordelia in King Lear that lad to her the talented Lena Olin escape the great Bergman after Fanny and Alexander and King Lear ? And why would a young actress even want to quit the Master? “Because he so belongs now to the theater" she told me “I was a small patt of it but theater is a very closed world and I needed to run away and grab my own life And remember when I was with Bagman I was very young" She has now “grabbed" her own life and very definitely so Ha latest film directed by Sidney Lumet is Night Falls on Man-h- a being cast in The Unbearable Lightness of Being BecauM Lena's family has spent m much time in tha US and bacauM EngliWi is taught in SwediWi schools her son August is fluent in English Does tha family skip “Oh yes" Lena laid "We are a nan Andy Garcia and Richard Drey fuss Garcia is a cop turned DA and Lena plays a wealthy Manhattan lawyer drawn to the idealistic Garcia There's another Olin picture ready for release called Polish Wedding Lena hadn’t ytt seen a final cut of Night Falls “When the film is finished I get more and more reluctant to see it" she said “Then I'll see it two or three years later" Her only regret she said was not having scenes with Drey fuss I guess for most moviegoers Lena came very much to life in 1988" s The Unbearable Lightness of Being an arty flick in which is she made love to Daniel while wearing only a bow la haL That led to questions about acting in the nude to which Ms Olin memorably responded: “Nudity is just another Day-Lew- five-ho- ur from a ski drive resort that like I we ski-do- wnhill not costume" A year lata she got an Oscar nomination for Enemies A Love Story and then was cast opposite Robert Redfotd in Havana expensive to make and loudly promoted but a flop How big a disappointment was that? “ ‘Disappointment’ is a strange word" she said “because you believe in what you do We started off with a very good feel and a good situation Redford was very good and die director was Sydney Pollack It was a great shoot But its failure was a big surprise" In real life Lena and her husband Lasse HallstrBm —who directed My Life as a Dog and Bn! one Sarto TtafltaarHtorpan Now in Lena QUo IBB H1BSI GnSnSfl SwsSto tesuty sMtotaAWtir What’s Eating Gilbert Grape — live in Stockholm with their daughter Ton and Lena's son from an earlier relationship August named fertile Swedish dramatist August Strindberg They also have a country house in the south of Sweden Lena gat me laughing with ha plot summary of Polish Wedding: “It’s sa in Detroit and I’m the wife of a baker and I'm the bride's motha who manied at 15 and I work as a cleaning lady who has seven kids and" Please try to imagine someone who looks like Lena as a clean- And August is very good" What about her husband Lasse? "No" she Mid "He's not very good" If I write that I asked will that get her in trouble? “Oh no" Lana Mid “ha and I are constantly trying to work things out" ing lady with seven children This one I've got to see II 83 mSEBSuXL rang as nanuanv m I cross-count-ry an paimok mmuzsw 1 (IMiPMIlWj v£-'- V :&t J Jiu IJJWWWI! |
