NarrativeEight new episodes of the Danish series will be available on June 2 on Netflix. An eventful return for fans of this globally successful political fiction. This fourth season addresses the themes of the intoxication of power and the exploitation of resources in the Far North.
Petite, her face lit up by a big smile, she walks down the hallway of the hotel dressed in wide orange trousers and a mauve blouse, her chestnut curls dancing on her shoulders. It’s silly, but we almost didn’t recognize Sidse Babett Knudsen. We expected to see Birgitte Nyborg appear, her character in the series Borgen, a head of government dressed to the nines in a severe suit, her hair combed into a ponytail, her gaze calculating. Our scorn amuses him. The Danish actress is used to it. Came to give an interview at the headquarters of the World, in 2012, on her role in the series, she found herself visiting the editorial staff, “treated as if I were the Prime Minister of Denmark”.
There are roles that define a career. For Sidse Babett Knudsen, 53, that of Birgitte Nyborg is one of them. In the space of thirty episodes, between 2010 and 2013, her character as a mother, leader of a small Danish party, who has become the most powerful woman in the Scandinavian kingdom, has imposed herself, against all odds, among the characters cults of the small screen. Moreover, when the Danish channel DR1 announced, in the midst of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, that the series Borgen was set to return for a fourth season, the news caused worldwide buzz.
Broadcast in Denmark since January, the eight episodes of the new season, titled The Kingdom, the power and the glory, are available on Netflix in the Nordics since April 14. They will be accessible in the rest of the world from June 2. Waiting, M The magazine of the World was able to attend the press presentation for the foreign media, at the beginning of April, at the luxurious Hotel d’Angleterre, right in the center of Copenhagen. The schedule is precise: fifteen minutes with each actor and smoked salmon sandwiches laid out on a large table in the hall, to wait while waiting for their turn.
“It was like putting on my favorite dress”
Flanked by a press secretary from Netflix, Sidse Babett Knudsen receives the journalists at the chain in a meeting room. His picture was pasted on the door. She offers to do the interview in French: a language she learned when she lived in Paris between the ages of 18 and 24, in the late 1980s. After Borgen, she shared the poster with Fabrice Luchini in Ermine (2015), directed by Christian Vincent, and played the doctor Irène Frachon in La Fille de Brest (2016), by Emmanuelle Bercot. She has also been seen in several major international productions, including the American series Westworld.
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