– I have received offers that were very nice offers, but I have also said a nice no to them, because I would rather make my own right now.
– If there is something I can not say no to, I do not know, he says.
The director already has a new project on the way, which he is very excited about. It is a TV series that he writes with screenwriter Bo Hr. Hansen, with whom he also wrote his graduation film in his time.
A series in Danish to be recorded in Denmark.
The series, which is currently entitled “Families like ours”, is a thought experiment, says Thomas Vinterberg.
About what would happen in families around Denmark if the whole country had to be evacuated over a few years.
– It’s not a disaster movie by any means. It is a series about what would happen to our relations in Denmark if it was our turn to be refugees in the world.
– What will happen in the divorced families, where one party can afford to settle in a good place and the other will have to take the public to Eastern Europe? What happens to the divorced children in that situation?
– What are we leaving? What is it that we love about our country? What are we losing if we lose our country?
It will culminate in a TV series for TV2, but it will take time before it rolls across the screen. Thomas Vinterberg and Bo Hr. Hansen is still writing the series.
– We are in the middle of what I would call a big writing burden, and we will probably have to write for a little over a year, he says.
According to the director, the series is about saying goodbye to what you love. He writes it because he is very preoccupied with the idea.
– It’s like if you fall in love and there is a chemical reaction in your head, which means that you can not repel it, which keeps you awake and at night, and where you can not help but be curious about that.
– It is virtually irrelevant whether it is a tiny story at home in Denmark, or whether it is a big crumb from another country.
When asked what Thomas Vinterberg will use the great international attention he has received with several Oscar nominations and an Oscar statuette for the film “Drink”, he answers:
– It’s a form of creative confidence that can come out of it. The opened doors were actually quite open to me beforehand.
Source: The Nordic Page