‘The Woman with the Dragon Tattoo’ star says she spent her childhood in Sweden and Iceland “out taking part in and constructing stuff and using horses,” sharing that “there have been no boundaries, actually.”

The Woman with the Dragon Tattoo star opened up about her childhood on a distant farm in Iceland, which concerned lots of “taking part in and constructing stuff and using horses,” however not loads in formal schooling. In truth, Rapace in contrast herself to The Jungle Guide’s Mowgli.

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“There have been no boundaries, actually. I am self-taught and self-raised, and I could not correctly learn and write till I used to be 12, 13,” she informed The Instances, including that there have been no books or tv. “Typically I felt like Mowgli, this baby who was raised within the wilderness.”

Rapace had beforehand opened as much as The Guardian about her unorthodox upbringing, together with the 4 CDs she owned and cherished: Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman, Dolly Parton, and “a bizarre Icelandic band referred to as KK.”

“I got here from a poor farm, I’m not educated, nobody opened doorways for me, I don’t come from cash,” Rapace informed the outlet. “I grew up on this farm, and we didn’t have a TV for a few years. There was no radio, there was no newspaper, there was no info coming in.”

Born to a Spanish flamenco singer and a Swedish actress, Rapace moved together with her mom and stepfather from her native Sweden to Iceland when she was 5. Simply two years later, she landed her first position, a non-speaking one within the Icelandic movie Within the Shadow of the Raven.

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The Swedish actress broke massive when she took on the position of Lisbeth Salandar in 2009 for the Swedish-language adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, with all three movies launched in 2009. The primary two movies within the unique trilogy have additionally been tailored within the US, with Rooney Mara and Claire Foy taking over the position of Lisbeth, respectively.

By the point Rapace took the position that will outline a lot of her profession, she had already adopted her stage final title, which she and ex-husband Ola Norell settled on as a result of it means “chicken of prey” in French and Italian and so they thought it sounded “cool.” The couple welcomed son Lev in 2003 earlier than their 2011 divorce.

“My son stated as soon as, once we simply moved to London, he was consuming breakfast … ‘Mummy, are you aware I’m the first-born Rapace on the planet?’” Rapace recalled to The Guardian. “So yeah, I feel I picked fairly nicely.”

Rapace is at the moment selling her main position within the Apple TV+ trippy science fiction collection Constellation. Additionally starring Jonathan Banks and James D’Arcy, the primary six episodes at the moment are streaming with new installments dropping each Wednesday.