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When I get into a role I become a combination of Noomi and the character. We merge into one. My body follows my mind and adjusts accordingly.

Noomi Rapace

(Source: contributormagazine.com)


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Somebody with that dark, strong energy, that dedication and will to transform herself and stay in that character, for a filmmaker to get that, that’s definitely a gift.

Niels Arden Oplev about Noomi Rapace

(Source: undertheradarmag.com)


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He doesn’t like the bullshit and he doesn’t like people to pose and pretend and to fake things. And he doesn’t like perfection – he’s driven towards something that is more real and cracked. We share that. I don’t want to look perfect. So I don’t want make-up, for instance, unless my character would be wearing it in that situation

Noomi Rapace, on Ridley Scott

(Source: telegraph.co.uk)


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And I started to sweat, and I was in this light blue dress, and I was like, “oh my God! You can actually see that I’m sweating!” and I was really nervous.

Noomi Rapace on meeting Ridley Scott

(Source: youtube.com)


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We are friends. I adore her, I love working with her.

Noomi Rapace on Rachel McAdams.

(Source: youtube.com)


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She [Lisbeth] is such a beautiful survivor. I think her fight for life is so strong…she doesn’t see herself as a victim.

Noomi Rapace

(Source: charlierose.com)


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…she laments the same thing that all female actresses lament, that there are rarely great roles for women.

Shelley Browning, Noomi’s Manager

(Source: angelfire.com)


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I met Niels Arden, the director, at a hotel in Hollywood and I was standing in front of him, five minutes, and he didn’t respond at all.

Noomi Rapace, on not being recognised after playing Lisbeth Salander [source]

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It’s weird, always when I look back at my movies I can clearly see that my relationship to the actors, on set, are affected by the relationship in the film.

Noomi Rapace [source]

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You always think it’s going to be something else and it’s not quite disappointing but it’s like, “Oh, that face again.” You always hope there’s going to be something else. So that’s hard, but even though it was me in it, I was blown away by the movie.

Noomi Rapace, on seeing herself on screen in Prometheus [source]