Michael B. Jordan

But when they leave, I tell my team it's like changing tires on a Formula One car.

It has to be very quick.

It's very expensive to make movies.

And in Norway, we don't have an endless budget.

So we've got to be really effective about it.

Well, you're telling a story of a, as you said, of a director who is an acclaimed director who has family issues.

As an acclaimed director, do you have to tell your family not to read into this?

It was interesting to show it to my family, because I come from a film family, too.

My grandfather was a film director.

Both my parents worked with movies.

My brother is a documentary director.

So, yeah, when they saw it, they were laughing.

My younger sister said to me, it's like you've taken a lot of elements that I recognize and put them in a blender.

And you're not throwing anyone under the bus, but I see it's you.

She also wants her cut, right?

Exactly.

The family cut.

It's interesting.

When people are talking about this film, and I felt that as well, it's a very tender film, which feels bold in this day and age, which we sort of live in this age of irony where you don't see that in film so often.

Is that a Norwegian thing?