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Aberdeen (2000)
Synopsis
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years. The impatient Kaisa reluctantly agrees. The story is a ruse: mom is dying and wants her ex and her daughter together again.
The trip gets complicated (dad is too drunk to fly and the hot-tempered Kaisa gets them banned from the airline): they go by ferry then car, needing a great deal of help along the way from a sweet lorry driver named Clive. Will they reach Aberdeen before mom's death, and will Kaisa find any stability within herself or in others?
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Trivia & Facts
× Filming Locations:
• Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
Oslo, Norway
Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Glencoe, Highland, Scotland, UK
Saltcoats, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
• Lena Headey starred in the movie Loved Up (1995) together with Ian Hart as well.
• The song that Kaisa and her father Tomas dances to in the end of the film is "Balladen om herr Fredrik Åkare och den söta fröken Cecilia Lind" by the famous Swedish folk singer and songwriter, Cornelis Vreeswijk. The song is about an old man meeting a younger woman/girl and they dance cheek-to-cheek.
× Awards: 9 wins & 5 nominations (view)
Lena Headey Quotes
• About getting the part
"I met Hans (Petter Moland, the director) and went 'I have to do it!' He asked if I really liked it. And I said, 'I love it, I've slept with it under my pillow, I've read it every day! I know I can do it.' He went away for three months, all the time staying in touch. Telling me, 'They want me to do it with Drew Barrymore, they're giving me a bigger budget.' But then after a while he dismissed all that and said, 'It's yours, you start in a month!' It was an awesome experience."
• "I think Aberdeen is the one. I read it and thought, 'Wow, this kind of material never comes my way. I'm never given this sort of thing.'"
• "When I read this fantastic script, it just excited me, I thought, 'I want to speak these words, I want to get in there, there's so much in there to do.' I thought, 'Kaisa, now there's a real person.'"
• Preparing before shooting scenes
"We'd go through scenes and he'd tell the story of how that scene came through his experience to be on the page, even though it wasn't a direct translation of what happened to him in life. After that, we were free. And he'd have a big smile on his face, or he'd look concerned and you'd know - or wouldn't know - that what you were doing was right or wrong. Sometimes he'd be quite moved because he was watching himself with his Dad and re-living the frustration and anger."
Character Quotes
• Kaisa: Fine, call security. Fucking Bitch, d'ya know that?
Airline Stewardess: Is that supposed to be a threat?
Kaisa: Err, no, no. It’s an index finger you dimwit, but that... that's a fist. But not for hitting... for fist-fucking tight arsed pussies like your good self!
• Kaisa: You and your fucking nature shit. It's too much fucking nature in this country. It gives me the creep.
• Kaisa: I lost my virginity when you were out there reading all that Greek litterature of yours.
Tomas: Well! I've bad conscience about a lot of things but that is not one of them. Girls are supposed to loose their virginity - it has happened to a lot of nice people.
Kaisa: I was just a kid... it's what being a kid is all about.
Tomas: So what did I do wrong?
Kaisa: Do you've got all night?
Co-Stars and Directors Quotes
• Hans Petter Moland "I knew she had the right instincts for the job and we went from there. She's bright enough to know that roles like this are demanding and they don't come around that often. If you look at how many films she has done, you see that she has never been challenged as much as this. She wanted that challenge."
• Stellan Skarsgård "Lena Headey is wonderful in the role. I didn't know of her work before that. Hans Petter is extremely good at casting, and giving the opportunity for the people he has cast to blossom in front of the camera. He's really one of the best directors I've had in handling actors."
• Stellan Skarsgård "Lena Headey has the unique quality of producing true lives in front of the camera. She is very talented, and there is no vanity in her. She can be very beautiful, but she doesn't mind being ugly as well. And the lack of vanity is fantastic when it comes from such a beautiful girl. I don't think she is working hard to do big Hollywood movies, but she is so good that there will be always be work for her as an actress."
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