The stunning Danish political drama made many major predictions that ended up coming true. Ahead of its return, its stars and creator talk about their moody update – and why they seem more clairvoyant than ever
orgen snuck into the UK at the start of the last decade among the great wave of Scandi – or Nordic – noir, instigated by the likes ofand Wallander. Only Borgen was nothing like these shows – no grisly murders, no unexpected deaths, minimal knitwear, and zero high-stakes shoot-outs. Instead, it was a deftly written, stunningly shot political drama, following Birgitte Nyborg – played beautifully by Sidse Babett Knudsen – who unexpectedly becomes Denmark’s first female Statsminister .
That “right story” entails a significant new oil discovery in Greenland – a Danish dependency – which throws most of the old favourites back together. Nyborg is back, in a newly formed government, as minister for foreign affairs. Has she really been in the same job all this time? I suggest to Knudsen that she must have thought about what her character has been doing: “Oh I’m not method at all – I actually just put her in the cupboard, and she’s been doing well.
Nyborg strikes a more solitary figure, more Machiavellian, losing some of her old self to her job. “If I don’t work 19-hour days as foreign minister, then who the hell am I?” she says at one point. Knudsen, in her unnervingly English RP accent, agrees. “Times have changed, and this is really a very interesting melange of the old Borgen and something very new.
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