(dramatic music) - Crown Princess Märtha, she was born a princess.
She has never been an active political figure before, but then this war comes and the Nazis occupy her country, and she has to go to America with her children and she's separated from her husband.
So all of that causes her to start thinking about what she can do with her power, how she can use it, how she can try to save her country.
- She changed the way she looked at herself, I think, primarily.
And she realized that she actually had political influence.
So, she developed from being an icon of the old world to becoming a liberated woman.
She had to learn how to make her own decisions.
- Every challenge will change you as a person, and this is the greatest challenge she has in her life, to be a refugee, and finding herself in a situation where she's with the most powerful man in the world, who could potentially help to save her country.
So, she's forced both from without and from within to start taking action.
- Working with Sofia was such a pleasure.
She's a very powerful actress.
She's incredibly insightful about the character, always asking questions, always finding the way through, always taking the interesting choice.
And she was a dream partner to work with.
- I find her to be a true character actress.
She did her research and even learned to speak Norwegian.
- To learn different languages, that's the challenge when you take on a part that speaks Norwegian, Swedish, and English.
But also to find the cracks in a character that is so well-behaved and so controlled, and find where I could get into her heart within that.
That was a challenge.
Where Märtha came from was very limited.
You have to wear certain clothes and to be very pleasant all the time.
So, to take her out of her comfort zone and force her to start doing things she doesn't dare to do, that's all I'm looking for when I'm looking for a character.
That's the dream part for me.
