Stellan Skarsgård

I mean, the power of the response, I am surprised by.

You can't anticipate that because it's fantastic.

I mean, the audience response.

It appeals to obviously everybody from children to old people.

Because everybody has a family member or are in a relationship to some family member that is sort of reflected in the film.

But it's also, it's a very light film.

It deals with serious problems and it deals with them seriously and don't take them light.

But the film itself is very, very light.

It's like light as a feather.

You were well-known.

Yeah, I mean, it was a TV series and we had one channel to choose between.

Everybody choose it.

So everybody saw it.

So it became very famous as a 16-year-old.

But I've done theater before and I've done sort of amateur theater and I've done also professional theater before I did that.

Well, you can say that child actors, they can either succumb to the pressure and the sort of loss of anonymity can turn out really bad.

Or you can survive it and it turns out pretty well.

And I had very, very thoughtful and brilliant parents who sort of made sure that my head didn't get too big and that I was grounded as a person.

Well, they pointed out to me how different I was from my persona, my public persona.

And the important thing is don't get that difference between your public persona and yourself too big because that's when it happens, when it goes wrong.