Renate Reinsve has just emerged from the depths of the Danish countryside, where she has been filming her latest project. Her first pitstop? Daunt Books in London. In town for the BAFTAs, Reinsve has had to quickly reacclimatise to the pace of awards season after the brief pause. But first: novels. She walked away with two.
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After just a snatched moment on the phone with Renate, I’m convinced she’d be an excellent addition to any book club. The Sentimental Value star is as thoughtful as the characters she’s known for (she said she felt 1,000 kilos lighter after waving goodbye to Nora on the last day of shooting the Joachim Trier film she’s nominated for). Originally from a “really small place in the forest in Norway”, she assumed her very first red-carpet appearance at Cannes Film Festival (back when 2021’s The Worst Person in the World had an unexpectedly seismic impact on cinema) would be a one-off. “I thought, I’ll just be myself because this is the first and the last time I’ll be here,” she says, somewhat unfathomably. “I still have the same feeling, but now I’ve understood it might not be my last every time I go on [the red carpet].”
