Alicia is featured in Flaunt Magazine’s September 2024 issue! Yesterday they shared a beautiful behind the scenes clip from her her photoshoot, which you can watch at the end of this post. Outtakes from the shoot can be found in our gallery here, and you can read her full feature on their website – I have included the introduction and a link to the full feature below! She discuss her new film Firebrand, as well as #MeToo, AI and more.

The most interesting thing about history is that it doesn’t objectively exist.What we tend to blithely refer to as historical fact is largely a construct of the present, and the vantage point from which it has been written is always culturally specific. Taking this as an absolute, one must ask the question: to what degree do the various narratives of past eras hold any credence at all, beyond mere advantageous political and religious symbolism? There is only one thing we can say about history for sure, and that is that it has largely been written by men—women more often than not being consigned to the vast obscurities of its long shadows.

It is precisely these dark corners that the feminist actor Alicia Vikander is keen to discuss when we meet on a sunny morning in a café on England’s Lane, just a stone’s throw from her home in leafy North London. Her latest film plays precisely with the malleable nature of historical narrative in order to shine a light on issues that are still prevalent today. Firebrand by Brazilian auteur Karim Aïnouz is an adaptation of Queen’s Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle, and is duly set in the final days of English Tudor monarch Henry VIII. Its focus, however, is not on the tyrannical king, but rather the last of his wives, Catherine Parr—who somehow not only managed to survive her husband’s penchant for dispatching female heads from their shoulders, but also become the first woman to publish under her own name in Britain. | Read the full interview

Alicia Vikander is one of her generation’s most versatile actors, with an impressive, and eclectic range of roles. When her latest film, ‘Firebrand’, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year, the audience gave the star a rousing, eight-minute standing ovation.

Above, the actor sits down with ELLE UK to play a game of ‘Ask Me Anything.’

Variety is pleased to announce this year’s lineup for its annual interview studio hosted at the Toronto International Film Festival. The studio, made possible by supporting partners J.Crew and SharkNinja, will run Sept. 6-8 featuring conversations with the cast and filmmakers behind the top projects screening at this year’s festival.

Talent participating in the studio includes Mikey Madison, Yura Borisov, and Sean Baker (“Anora”); Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander, Himesh Patel, and Fleur Fortuné (“The Assessment”); Barry Keoghan and Nykiya Adams (“Bird”); Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe, John Turturro, and Sean Ellis (“The Cut”); Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Brühl, Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas, and Ron Howard (“Eden”); Elton John, David Furnish, and R.J. Cutler (“Elton John: Never Too Late”); Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Édgar Ramírez, and Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Perez”); Ryan Destiny, Bryan Tyree Henry, Claressa Shields, and Rachel Morrison (“The Fire Inside”); Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, David Siegel, and Scott McGehee (“The Friend”); Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, and Mike Leigh (“Hard Truths”); Anderson .Paak and Soul Rasheed (“K-Pops!”); Pamela Anderson, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka, Gia Coppola and Kate Gersten (“The Last Showgirl”); Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, and Mike Flanagan (“The Life of Chuck”); Dakota Johnson and Talia Bernstein (“Loser Baby”); Ben Stiller and David Gordon Green (“Nutcrackers”); John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Corey Hawkins, Malcolm Washington, and Virgil Williams (“The Piano Lesson”); Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore (“The Room Next Door”); Cate Blanchett, Roy Dupuis, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson (“Rumours”); Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Dylan O’Brien, Lamorne Morris, and Jason Reitman (“Saturday Night”); Lupita Nyong’o, Kit Connor, Catherine O’Hara, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, and Chris Sanders (“The Wild Robot”).

Cast members and filmmakers in attendance will experience the J.Crew Gifting Suite, where they can try on and take home some of the brand’s famously soft, premium quality cashmere garments, and the SharkNinja touch-up station, which will include a stylist stationed in the studio to provide hair touch-ups with Shark Beauty™ products.

In addition to its interview studio, Variety will celebrate its Demi Moore cover story with a party supported by J.Crew and SharkNinja for Moore’s critically acclaimed film “The Substance” on September 6. The film, distributed by Mubi and starring Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid, follows a fading celebrity who decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself. Actress, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Moore can most recently be seen in the second season of “Feud: Capote vs.. The Swans” and will soon be seen in Paramount+’s upcoming drama “Landman” from Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, in which she stars alongside Jon Hamm and Billy Bob Thornton. The actress set a record in 1995 when she became the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, known for her work in “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “About Last Night…,” “Ghost,” “A Few Good Men,” “Indecent Proposal,” “The Scarlet Letter,” “Disclosure,” “G.I. Jane,” “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” “Bobby,” and “Margin Call,” among many others.

In collaboration with Chanel, Variety will also host the annual Female Filmmakers Dinner event on September 7. Since 2018, Variety and Chanel have partnered on the event attended by the festival’s top talent, filmmakers and executives to celebrate women in film at TIFF. The event will also toast the Chanel Women Creators’ Network, an alumnae program and extension of Share Her Journey’s annual TIFF Writers’ Studio. The Chanel Women Creators’ Network reinforces the House’s commitment to championing women in the arts and to creating opportunities for their artistic and professional development.

Coverage from the interview studio, as well as the magazine’s additional festival events, will be distributed across Variety’s social media platforms and on Variety.com starting September 6 and continuing throughout this year’s TIFF.

Hello Alicia fans! Last month, Alicia attended Paris Fashion Week with Louis Vuitton (as she does every year). Our gallery has been updated with several HQ photos from the event, both from arrivals and inside the show itself. Alicia looked super pretty!

GÖTEBORG, Sweden — Alicia Vikander is at this week’s Goteborg Film Festival to help promote the Alicia Vikander Film Lab high-school initiative, and because Scandinavia’s largest film festival, held in her home town of Göteborg, southern Sweden, has always been part of her life.

Established in 2021 by Vikander (“The Danish Girl”), the Festival and the Sten Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture, the three-year film training program is for local high-school-aged students, with the program made available to educational establishments in the Goteborg area since last January.

“We’ve managed to get it on the curriculum,” said Vikander who is the biggest star at this year’s festival and a fixture at the event, reciting an Honorary Nordic Dragon Award, for instance, in 2018. “It’s a project where I’ve been able to get a lot of it done remotely on Zoom,” she told Variety at Göteborg.

On Monday at the Festival, a gala will take place presenting films by this year’s students. 12 short films will be screened. The films are between two and five minutes long. Since the launch, film teachers from the Festival have been visiting schools selected this year, once a month, and Vikander has visited the schools twice during the school year.

The participating schools in 2022 are Kannebäcksskolan, Nordhemsskolan and Skälltorpsskolan – the school that Vikander attended. Each year, three to four new schools join the project.

“For a long time, I wanted to find a way to give back,” says Vikander who trained as a dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School. Read More

Award-winning Korean actors Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung and Hoyeon have joined Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender in the cast of upcoming thriller Hope.

The Korean feature is directed by Na Hong-jin, marking his first film since The Wailing in 2016, and is backed by Korean producer-distributor Plus M Entertainment.

Hwang starred in The Wailing, which played at Cannes, and is also known for Netflix’s Narco-Saints, Cannes 2022 title Hunt and Berlin 2023 feature Kill Boksoon.

Zo is known for roles in war epic The Great Battle and more recently Escape From Mogadishu, while Hoyeon was a breakout star of Netflix’s Squid Game, for which she received an Emmy nomination and won best outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series at the SAG Awards. Hope will mark her feature debut.

The film follows the residents of Hopo Port, where a mysterious discovery is made on the outskirts of the remote harbour town. Before long, the residents find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against something they have never encountered before.

It is not yet known what roles Oscar winner Vikander and Oscar nominee Fassbender will play in the largely Korean-language film, but Hwang will play a village police officer while Zo takes on the role of a young hunter.

Cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo, known for his work on Oscar winner Parasite and Cannes Competition title Burning, is also on board. It marks his second collaboration with Na after The Wailing.

Plus M Entertainment recently signed a financing and distribution deal with director Na, who is also known for The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, which respectively played at Cannes in 2008 and 2011. Hope will be produced under Na’s own Forged Films and in pre-production, with filming set to begin in Korea later this year.

Plus M will manage international sales while UTA Independent Film Group and Plus M will handle North America sales. (Source)

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, real-life husband and wife, will be reuniting onscreen for the second time in director Na Hong-Jin’s Korean thriller movie “Hope”.

Emmy-nominated Korean actress and model Hoyeon, who made waves with Netflix’s Squid Game, is set to make her feature debut in the upcoming project.

This is the first project from acclaimed Korean director Na since the 2016 hit “The Wailing”, and it’ll mark Hoyeon’s first starring role in a Korean project since she made her screen debut in “Squid Game”.

The largely Korean-language movie will follow the residents of Hopo Port, where a mysterious discovery is made on the outskirts of the remote harbor town. Before long, the residents find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against something they have never encountered before. Hoyeon will play a policewoman.

Additional casting and pre-production are underway for a shoot later this year in Korea.

While the movie will be in Korean, Fassbender and Vikander will speak their lines in English. They had wished to take part after being impressed by the director’s previous work.

“Hope” marks the second time they’ve appeared together in the same movie after 2016’s ‘The Light Between Oceans.’

Korean producer-distributor Plus M Entertainment, owned by multiplex chain Megabox, is behind the project after recently inking a financing and distribution deal with Na, also known for Korean movies “The Chaser” and “The Yellow Sea”.

Cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo, known for his work on Parasite and Burning, is also on board, marking his second collaboration with Na after “The Wailing”.

Pic will be produced under Na’s production banner Forged Films. Plus M is handling international sales and UTA Independent Film Group and Plus M are handling North America.

Alicia is fronting a brand new Louis Vuitton campaign this year, and this time it’s for the brand’s very first high jewelry campaign! I’ve attached an article with more information about the campaign below, and you can find the first stunning HQ photo of Alicia modelling their jewelry in our gallery here.

PARIS — Louis Vuitton is launching its first high jewelry campaign, fronted by Alicia Vikander, marking steep ambitions from the luxury label as it continues its push into the category.

“She’s very regal but approachable,” said Michael Burke, the brand’s chief executive officer, speaking with WWD from an upper floor meeting room of its buzzing Pont Neuf headquarters here. The executive pointed to her training as a classical dancer, stressing the importance of showing the movement of the body for displaying jewelry.

“There’s a return to jewelry that’s sensual,” he remarked, adding that jewelry worn on the skin — rather than in the hair, for example — takes on a “whole new sensuality.”

The executive noted that Nicolas Ghesquière, who designs the label’s women’s collections, started working with Vikander first. The designer felt she had “the right energy, and the right type of grace and movement and expression to bring his clothes to life,” Burke said.

He noted a compatibility in style with Francesca Amfitheatrof, Louis Vuitton’s artistic director for jewelry and watches.

“She designs for that type of woman, she doesn’t design girly little flowers. Nobody needs another girly little flower thing, with center stones and some brilliant diamonds around it. The market is full of that,” he said. (Read the full article at WWD)