{"id":122203,"date":"2025-09-06T02:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122203\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T02:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:50:14","slug":"sentimental-value-star-inga-ibsdotter-lilleaas-interviewed-from-telluride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122203\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sentimental Value\u2019 Star Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas Interviewed From Telluride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/inga-ibsdotter-lilleaas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_inga-ibsdotter-lilleaas\" data-tag=\"inga-ibsdotter-lilleaas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas<\/a> is the quiet sister, Agnes, opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/renate-reinsve\/\" id=\"auto-tag_renate-reinsve\" data-tag=\"renate-reinsve\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Renate Reinsve<\/a>\u2019s louder, more histrionic older sibling Nora in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/joachim-trier\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joachim-trier\" data-tag=\"joachim-trier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joachim Trier<\/a>\u2019s unbelievably brilliant <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/cannes-film-festival-2025-winners-full-list-1236410201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cannes Grand Prix winner<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sentimental-value\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sentimental-value\" data-tag=\"sentimental-value\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sentimental Value<\/a>. \u201cAgnes is the diplomat of the family,\u201d Lilleaas tells us, \u201ctrying to keep everyone together in the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrier didn\u2019t know much about Lilleaas before he decided to cast her as Agnes, an academic historian who lives with her husband and son in the spacious house in Oslo where she was raised with Nora and their late mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTheir father Gustov Borg, played with a sort of wounded gusto by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/stellan-skarsgard-3\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stellan-skarsgard-3\" data-tag=\"stellan-skarsgard-3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a>, is a once-famous film director who abandoned his family when he made the choice to concentrate on his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSometimes, when I watch movies, my eye is drawn to the quiet character to the left of the frame; they\u2019re just slightly out of the main action. But their stillness compels you to pay attention. That\u2019s what happened when I first saw Lilleaas in\u00a0Sentimental Value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLilleaas comes from a theater background. Her parents ran a theater production company that made sets and costumes. They also went out on the road, putting on shows in the towns and villages surrounding the little mountainside village they lived in at Goc located in Hallingdal\u00a0Valley in Buskerud County, situated between Oslo and Bergen in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/norway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_norway\" data-tag=\"norway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/lists\/oscars-2026-international-feature-film-submissions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscars 2026 International Feature Film Submissions By Country<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAt the age of 2, her parents cast her in an historical play about a woman who\u2019s beheaded because she had an abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThey thought she killed her baby,\u201d Lilleaas explains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI was very little. And I\u2019ve been told that on the day of the premiere I threw a tantrum and said, \u2018I don\u2019t want to do it anymore.\u2019 So that\u2019s sort of the beginning for me,\u201d Lilleaas says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrier says he met with many actors for Agnes. \u201cAnd she\u2019s extraordinary,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd I like actors that sometimes don\u2019t jump up and do the jazz hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cRenate can f*cking do that. She\u2019s\u00a0funny,\u201d he adds. \u201cAnd she could do levity and all that. So I love that in her, the spectrum of Renate. But I needed someone\u00a0opposite her who could hold that silence, and that took a bit of work. We had to do a couple of casting sessions, and suddenly I saw it in Inga, who\u00a0is remarkable and she gives herself to the camera. Her closeups are extraordinary \u2014 cinematic as hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/07\/sentimental-value-trailer-joachim-trier-neon-1236446224\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Sentimental Value\u2019 Trailer: First Look At Joachim Trier\u2019s Cannes Grand Prix Winner Starring Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd &amp; Elle Fanning<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLilleaas and I meet for a cuppa tea in a private dining room toward the rear of the New Sheridan Hotel along Telluride\u2019s main boulevard. I\u2019d seen her before, at the film\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/joachim-trier-sentimental-value-ovation-cannes-1236407689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">now-famous 19-minute world premiere ovation<\/a> during Cannes and at a party. Then up in the mountains, Skarsg\u00e5rd introduced us at the\u00a0annual brunch for Telluride\u2019s festival patrons.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2676-rotated.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"768\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tStellan Skarsg\u00e5rd and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBaz Bamigboye\/Deadline<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThey hadn\u2019t sought the busier area. Instead she and Skarsg\u00e5rd stood with their backs to it all. They weren\u2019t being stand-offish, not at all. They just weren\u2019t seeking the limelight. By the way, their fellow stars Reinsve and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/elle-fanning\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elle-fanning\" data-tag=\"elle-fanning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elle Fanning<\/a> were standing out of the spotlight too. The sight of them all made me smile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing her tantrum at 2 years old, it was at high school that Lilleaas\u00a0decided that she wanted to get into the theater program, and that was \u201cthe first time I can remember actually thinking about wanting to be an actor. And before that it was just a feeling I had. \u2026 I liked doing theater. And then I applied to these theater schools, and that\u2019s sort of when I understood that maybe I could be an actress,\u201d she says as we sip our hot drinks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/feature\/awards-season-calendar-oscars-emmys-golden-globes-list-1234814076\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Emmys, Oscars, Grammys &amp; More<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe hadn\u2019t fully comprehended that \u201cactually there was a job that people had that was just being an actor, not making the theater, which was what I had seen my parents do, doing the whole thing from the construction and all the work that goes into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlthough she loved the \u201cwhole process\u201d of making theater, there was a determination to focus on the thespian part of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs a big\u00a0fan of Julia Roberts,\u00a0Pretty Woman\u00a0and\u00a0Steel Magnolias\u00a0played on repeat. \u201cAnd I just thought she was so beautiful and a really good actress. So I remember her from when I was young. I remember seeing\u00a0Erin Brockovich\u00a0in the cinema actually, and I was so blown away by that movie and by her,\u201d Lilleaas says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEqually, she got a kick out of\u00a0just seeing the kids in high school who were in her\u00a0parents\u2019 classes. \u201cI went to see their shows, and we went to Oslo to see productions. \u2026 And they would go on field trips with the class, and I would come with them twice a year maybe. But what I grew up with is the amateur theater and seeing the high school kids perform. So that\u2019s what I grew up identifying with and wanting to be. So I didn\u2019t really go outside for inspiration. It was sort of there on my doorstep,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MCDSEVA_EC021.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"554\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRenate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in \u2018Sentimental Value\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeon\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAnd when I look back at it, for me as a kid, they were amazing. They probably maybe weren\u2019t that amazing, but I felt that it was amazing what they were doing. And then I grew up and there was a lot of very good Norwegian actors to look up to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHer favourite then was Ane Dahl Torp (The Wave, Cold Lunch), but there were many others she followed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/stellan-skarsgard-joachim-triers-sentimental-value-party-1236408206\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking Baz @ Cannes: Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd Finds A Sweet Party Spot After The Triumph Of Joachim Trier\u2019s Cannes Sensation \u2018Sentimental Value\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAt 17, she was an education exchange and went to live in Brazil\u00a0\u00a0and went to a normal high school with Brazilian kids and gradually learned Portuguese for a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHer local-language\u00a0skills were helped along by watching \u201cthe telenovelas, like our soap operas.\u201d She remembers seeing telenovelas such as\u00a0Tropical Paradise\u00a0and\u00a0Once in a Blue Moon. The common factor being, both featured\u00a0Wagner Moura, the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/cannes-film-festival-2025-winners-full-list-1236410201\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/cannes-film-festival-2025-winners-full-list-1236410201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cannes Film Festival Best Actor star<\/a> of Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho\u2019s\u00a0The Secret Agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI saw him, he taught me Portuguese in a way,\u201d Lilleaas says brightly. \u201cBecause I watched him and other actors, of course, in the telenovelas, and I remember him so well because he was so good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2797.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"914\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tWagner Moura and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBaz Bamigboye\/Deadline<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnd just hours after hearing that story, there they were, hanging out with the\u00a0Sentimental Value\u00a0and\u00a0The Secret Agent\u00a0teams at the Neon party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tI ask\u00a0Lilleaas about her preparations for taking on the role of Agnes in Trier\u2019s movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe had a lot a rehearsal. I\u2019ve never done that before to that extent. But we went through every scene that I was in and with the other actors and we blocked it and we had a really thorough talk about it. And so when we came to set, we had had a plan, sort of, that we could follow or not. So it wasn\u2019t like, \u2018This is how we\u2019re going to do it,\u2019 but it wasn\u2019t set in stone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrier\u2019s pre-production runthrough of the screenplay gave her confidence. \u201cWe\u2019ve been through this. So we\u2019ve tried it out,\u201d Lilleaas says. \u201cWe know a little bit about what it\u2019s like. And in Norway, there\u2019s not a lot of money for rehearsals.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnd then \u201cwhen you do it again, you get deeper into it. I think it\u2019s not just the first read of the thing. So you can actually dig deeper. And you have sort of a memory of what the other actor did.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThey shot in a studio and at various locations including the family home that\u2019s\u00a0at the center of the film\u2019s drama. It\u2019s a dramatic structure located in Oslo\u2019s posh west end of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLilleaas knew\u00a0Reinsve a little because they\u2019d worked\u00a0together with a\u00a0\u00a0small theater company that Reinsve had started. They worked summer seasons on theater projects with children who are home and don\u2019t go on vacation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThen Trier brought them together for\u00a0Sentimental Value. The two actors rehearsed together, and Lilleaas had a feeling of, \u201cHow was this dynamic going to be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe had talks about family and sisterhood and stuff like that,\u201d says Lilleaas, who has an older sister and a younger brother. \u201cI\u2019m in the middle,\u201d she says, laughing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s great. I mean, I know a little bit of what it\u2019s like to be a younger sister, and I know what it\u2019s like to be a bigger sister and how that\u2019s different, how the dynamic is different and the responsibility is different. When you\u2019re someone\u2019s younger sister, like I am in the movie, you\u2019re protected in a way, and there\u2019s someone who\u2019s always been there. You\u2019re not the first, you\u2019re not the test [child],\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TIFF_DEADLINE_2025129492.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"768\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Joachim Trier, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd, Elle Fanning and Renate Reinsve at the Deadline Studio during the 2025 Toronto Film Festival <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDeadline<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAnd when you\u2019re an older sister, at least for me, there\u2019s this enormous responsibility to protect the younger one that I don\u2019t feel with my older sister. They\u2019re so much more relaxed, which is probably annoying for her that you can just walk through life with the feeling of no responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tI point out that in the film, Agnes, although younger, is the grownup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cBut I think at some point it shifted in their relationship because when there were children, Nora, the older sister, protected the younger sister and took care of her and was her steady rock.\u201d She feels that affected Nora \u201cin a way that broke her a little bit. And it affected her, as you see in the movie. And so at some point, the healthier one becomes the protector in adulthood. \u2026 A lot of people can relate to that and recognize that. \u2026 And that\u2019s because of the sort of older sibling sacrifice in a way, or her taking the fall, I guess. \u2026 That makes the younger one able to be the protector because maybe they\u2019re more secure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBut, in her view, it doesn\u2019t mean that the younger \u2014 and, in this instance, stronger \u2014 sister, is not \u201caffected by the childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAgnes has her scars, only they\u2019re not immediately as visible as Nora\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWhen we worked on it, I think that Agnes has a relationship with her father. He\u2019s not absent from her life, but he\u2019s not there. So she can call him, but he\u2019s not involved that much,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs a child, Agnes and her father were close \u2014 after all, he chose her to play a role in one of his films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnd then he disappeared into editing and into probably traveling with the film. \u201cAnd he was gone. And for a child, that must be so devastating and it must make you feel that you were used by your parents somehow. You don\u2019t necessarily understand then. But I imagine that that\u2019s the feeling that you were sort of taken advantage of in a way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI can only imagine, being an actor, how much you give of your inner self and how much that costs. And for someone just to take it and leave, it\u2019s hard enough when it\u2019s someone you don\u2019t really know. But when it\u2019s your own father, it must really make you confused to put it lightly,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tI think I understand why actors act and how they can pour themselves into a role. Yet I feel that they\u2019re not always appreciated for what they put into it, I say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI think if you turn on your empathy a little and think about it, what you\u2019re actually doing is you\u2019re putting the most vulnerable part of yourself for everyone to see and enjoy,\u201d Lilleaas says. But, she warns: \u201cThat does cost something for people. And I think there\u2019s a lot of judgment against actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tI suggest that,in part, it\u2019s based on the ever-ready diet of celebrity coverage that dominates the media. Everything is showbiz. The president of the United States treats the White House like some mammoth soundstage where he can treat foreign leaders as if they\u2019re the stooges on a television game show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnd then there\u2019s the assumption that every actor must have stacks of money\u00a0and that everything is done for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAnd I think people look at that and they want that,\u201d Lilleaas says. \u201cSo maybe there\u2019s a little jealousy in there that you want that, but you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re paying to get that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMost actors, she says, \u201caren\u2019t famous. They\u2019re very hardworking, normal people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2216334751.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"683\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning, Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd and Joachim Trier at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMonica Schipper\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tI was in the Grand Lumiere in Cannes when\u00a0Sentimental Value\u00a0was greeted with that extraordinary 19-minute ovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHow did she feel being in that rare moment, I ask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt was overwhelming, of course. We\u2019d just seen the movie, which was nice. I had seen it once before, in a smaller theater. So this was huge. And there were a lot of people, and it was so nice to hear people react and you can feel the energy in the room. \u2026 And this feels good. And then they applaud. And I was prepared that if they like it, they\u2019ll applaud. And thought, \u2018Maybe it\u2019ll last a little,\u2019 but I didn\u2019t know what was long and what was short. You don\u2019t know what six minutes is. You don\u2019t know what 19 minutes is. So I just sort of dissociate a little because you\u2019re filmed at the same time,\u201d she recalls with a delayed looked of shock on her face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tI confess to her that I was one of those from the media who filmed her. Although, I must say that\u00a0my iPhone is nowhere\u00a0near as big as the official cameras that\u00a0Thierry Fr\u00e9maux escorted\u00a0into the auditorium to film the ovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI had tears in my eyes because I thought it was just great and a little overwhelming, of course. And I was moved by the movie,\u201d she says. \u201cI was moved by people\u2019s reaction to the movie. And when you look people in the eye after they\u2019ve seen it, there\u2019s this connection that we know we\u2019ve experienced something together and that we have this understanding of our pain, each other\u2019s pain, without having to say it because we\u2019ve seen the movie and it sort of describes it. And so now we know each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt\u2019s a bond made between people watching a big screen in the dark, she remarks. \u201cI think that\u2019s so powerful to experience, and that makes me cry a little.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tI remember feeling that the\u00a0Sentimental Value\u00a0screening was\u00a0a seminal night for cinema. But the irony of it was that this\u00a0was a film about acting, about the film industry and the destruction that it can cause to the people who toil in it .And it was taking place in this cathedral of cinema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAnd it was very huge for me to just be there,\u201d Lilleaas says. \u201cI felt so privileged and I felt like it was a dream to be there. And how much respect people have for movies there. That\u2019s very moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBut what did she think of the whole the Cannes red carpet \u2014 the gowns, the jewelry, the shoes, and all that palava?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tReading my question back, I realize how sexist it is. I guess I wouldn\u2019t have asked Denzel Washington about the color of his tuxedo or his ear stud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tI chastise myself, wishing\u00a0that I could take it back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHowever, Lilleaas responded that she thought the whole red carpet panoply \u201cwas a lot,\u201d especially when that kind of exhibitionism \u201cis so far from the core of the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNonetheless, she thought the glam fest was \u201cfun\u201d and that she \u201clikes to dress up\u201d but suggests that she found it \u201ca little overwhelming as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs we\u2019re talking, Lilleaas suddenly looks up with a start.\u00a0There\u2019s a trophy head of a buffalo known as \u201cOld Joe,\u201d as the brass plaque reveals, mounted on a dining room wall. \u201cIt\u2019s garish,\u201d Lilleaas cries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe\u2019d been so deep into our conversation that neither one of us had noticed the darn buffalo staring right down at us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_2753.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"1015\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tInga Ibsdotter Lilleaas with her \u201cfriend\u201d Joe mounted on wall at New Sheridan Hotel in Telluride<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBaz Bamigboye\/Deadline<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNot much call for buffalo in Oslo. She and actor husband Gunnar Eiriksson (P\u00f8rni, Power Play) reside there with their\u00a04-year-old son. \u201dIt\u2019s a very chill, everyday life with my family,\u201d she allows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe went straight home from Cannes\u00a0and into the routine of picking up her child at kindergarten. \u201cIt\u2019s very quick to get back to reality from that unreal setting\u00a0to somewhere close to normal life. That\u2019s life as life. That\u2019s what\u2019s important to me. And that\u2019s what has value. And the other stuff is fun and a little crazy, but it not real life,\u201d she observes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLilleaas agrees that you can\u2019t act real life on stage or screen if you don\u2019t ever experience it as a normal person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThat\u2019s why she believes that \u201ca lot of actors should have other jobs in their life. They need to know what it\u2019s like to have a job that\u2019s not acting and to work with other people who are not actors. Because you can\u2019t spend your whole career life working with the same type of people, we\u2019re very similar often. And to just do the acting, then you don\u2019t actually know what you\u2019re talking about somehow, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLilleaas has practiced what she preaches. She has worked in the costume department of her parents\u2019 business. Her first main job was as a dental assistant. \u201cI was\u00a0super unqualified for the work \u2014 I was 17,\u201d she reveals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThat was followed by a stint as a\u00a0teacher and helping out in a care home for senior citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThat\u00a0last gig must\u2019ve been helpful in her understanding of Agnes\u2019 father, played by Skarsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tI\u2019d seen them in Cannes at the Closing Night\u00a0party, and I liked how he often seemed to be protective of her in a kindly, fatherly way. Same in Telluride. This world was new to Lilleaas,\u00a0and she appreciated that he was \u201cso sweet to her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnd, she adds, \u201cHe\u2019s so down to earth and so warm and empathetic, and he\u2019s such a good actor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWorking with him on\u00a0Sentimental Value,\u00a0she says that \u201cwhen you just look in his eyes, you see his soul, you can feel his presence, and I can see something in there. I don\u2019t know what it is, but it resonates with me. And so I react to that intuitively, which was so much fun and so interesting and rewarding as an actor to work with him. Yeah,and he\u2019s very nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHer Agnes in\u00a0Sentimental Value, she notes, \u201cis\u00a0not in the darkest place throughout the movie. So for me it was very light and\u00a0happy to go to work. And I really like feeling things at work. So it was a lot of fun. We had a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFuture work, Lilleaas says, is \u201ca little up in the air\u201d while she helps\u00a0promote\u00a0Sentimental Value\u00a0through the fall and winter. Following <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tiff\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tiff\" data-tag=\"tiff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TIFF<\/a>, the picture screens on\u00a0four dates at the New York Film Festival beginning with a gala on September 30 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. It\u2019s screening three times at the BFI London Film Festival, premiering there on October 12 at the Royal Festival Hall. It\u2019s released into theaters in the US and UK on November 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe world of the stage remains in her blood. Before and after filming\u00a0Sentimental Value\u00a0she stood in\u00a0for her uncle, a teacher at a drama school in Oslo, where she taught 19-year-old students for half a semester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe found the experience refreshing. \u201cI love being a teacher,\u201d she enthuses. \u201cIt\u2019s like acting, teaching. I\u2019ve done it before as well. And I learned so much about acting from it because I have to try to explain myself. And I think it\u2019s really interesting and it\u2019s so much fun to see younger people experience themselves in doing that. And to see them grow as people mostly, not so much the acting part, it\u2019s more the human being growing up and taking that step into adulthood. I think it\u2019s such a privilege to be a witness to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt\u2019s also a privilege for me as well, to watch a new star get ready to soar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas is the quiet sister, Agnes, opposite Renate Reinsve\u2019s louder, more histrionic older sibling Nora&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,86034,64435,134,86035,86036,344,21839,86037,86038,86039,18032],"class_list":{"0":"post-122203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-breaking-baz","11":"tag-elle-fanning","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-inga-ibsdotter-lilleaas","14":"tag-joachim-trier","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-norway","17":"tag-renate-reinsve","18":"tag-sentimental-value","19":"tag-stellan-skarsgu00e5rd","20":"tag-tiff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}