Oh dear I shall so miss “Borgen”.
No argument: Sidse Babette Knudsen as the Prime Minister in this series gives the best performance ever seen on TV.
Fact, inarguable. Not up for discussion.
Not even the amazing tutors at www.teachyourselfacting.com can actually turn you into that good an actor! However we can set you on the way – and if you have the faintest interest in the craft and you haven’t seen this utterly compelling Danish series, then buy borrow or steal a box-set, and watch this woman go to work.
One of the essential challenges of portraying human behaviour is that at any particular moment humans seldom are dealing with just one thing, feeling just one set of emotions. A former tutor-colleague of mine at RADA, Dee Cannon, used to talk about actors needing to express “layers” of feeling. Ms Knudsen knows the secret.
But then all the cast of “Borgen” are so believable, so focussed. Saturday evenings are suddenly barren and bleak.
I shall just have to get out more…
