{"id":125137,"date":"2024-09-14T08:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T08:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/14\/alicia-vikander-reveals-how-motherhood-inspired-firebrand-performance\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T08:01:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T08:01:37","slug":"alicia-vikander-reveals-how-motherhood-inspired-firebrand-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/14\/alicia-vikander-reveals-how-motherhood-inspired-firebrand-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Vikander reveals how motherhood inspired Firebrand performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-09-14\" datetime=\"1726300897\" pubdate=\"\">14 September 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/alicia-vikander\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,alicia-vikander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alicia Vikander<\/a> has had &#8220;new emotions\u201d to draw on since becoming a mother.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Alicia Vikander has reflected on the influence of motherhood<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old actress &#8211; who has two sons with her husband <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/michael-fassbender\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,michael-fassbender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Fassbender<\/a> &#8211; has revealed that she relished playing Henry VII\u2019s wife, Catherine Parr, in the movie \u2018Firebrand\u2019, because it was the first time she&#8217;d played a parent since becoming one herself.<\/p>\n<p>Alicia &#8211; who gave birth to her first child in 2021 and her second child earlier this year &#8211; told HELLO!: \u201cAs an actor, I think you always draw on your own life experiences and fantasies as well as your imagination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had played a mother before I became a parent myself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave birth on screen three times before I gave birth for real.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI definitely feel you get access to endless new emotions to draw on the second you become a parent.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt impacted the way I did this film, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAlicia also found that her costumes helped her to play the historical figure.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe explained: \u201cThe first costume fitting, the ritual of putting it on, was pivotal in my finding the character.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe clothes are a reminder of what life was like for women like Catherine back then.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cBut the costumes were just so beautiful and authentic.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI had seven or eight layers on most of the time. It was 30 minutes just to put it all on. I loved them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat&#8217;s more, the actress did &#8220;a lot of research&#8221; about the Tudor era before filming started.<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking about her preparation, she said: \u201cThere is a lot of research.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI spoke a lot with [director] Karim Ainouz and I read a lot of books and listened to a lot of lectures from experts on the Tudors who came and spent time with us.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cOf course, this happened 500 years ago, so we can\u2019t know for sure every detail of what happened, but that\u2019s the beauty of telling a story like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/alicia-vikander-reveals-motherhood-inspired-firebrand-performance-1406265.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 September 2024 Alicia Vikander has had &#8220;new emotions\u201d to draw on since becoming a mother. Alicia Vikander has reflected on the influence of motherhood The 35-year-old actress &#8211; who has two sons with her husband Michael Fassbender &#8211; has revealed that she relished playing Henry VII\u2019s wife, Catherine Parr, in the movie \u2018Firebrand\u2019, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1953,2329],"class_list":{"0":"post-125137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-alicia-vikander","9":"tag-michael-fassbender"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}