{"id":699522,"date":"2025-11-16T17:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dar-salim-trine-dyrholm-on-portraying-complex-characters-with-ptsd\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:05:11","slug":"dar-salim-trine-dyrholm-on-portraying-complex-characters-with-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dar-salim-trine-dyrholm-on-portraying-complex-characters-with-ptsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Dar Salim, Trine Dyrholm on Portraying Complex Characters With PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tDanish stars Dar Salim (Game<\/a> of Thrones<\/em>, The Covenant<\/em>, Until We Fall<\/em>) and Trine Dyrholm (The Girl With the Needle<\/em>,\u00a0Beginnings<\/em><\/em>,\u00a0Poison<\/em>)\u00a0took the time to speak about their latest projects at the\u00a029th edition\u00a0of the\u00a0Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival\u00a0(P\u00d6FF) in Estonia on Sunday, addressing their characters with PTSD and more.<\/p>\n

\n\tSalim stars in Christian Bonke\u2019s Hercules Falling, which world premieres Sunday at the First Feature Competition program at Tallinn. He plays Youssef, whose war experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq linger. \u201cAfter an almost fatal incident at home, he enrolls in a special facility to prepare for another battle: this time, to learn to control his anger. It\u2019s not going to be easy,\u201d reads a synopsis. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film combines documentary and fiction elements as it takes the audience to the Danish island of Stryn\u00f8. There, Anne-Line Ussing and her husband, Stuart Press \u2013 who was diagnosed with PTSD 10 years after serving in the Australian Army \u2013 run a voluntary retreat center for Danish soldiers. \u201cIn the company of war veterans, generous hosts and their children, Dar Salim, who won the best actor award for Until We Fall<\/em>\u00a0at P\u00d6FF 2018, delivers a performance of brutal honesty and frank authenticity in this gripping drama, which is both painstakingly researched and extensively timely,\u201d the festival website promises.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, how is Hercules Falling<\/em> different from other war and war veteran movies<\/a>? \u201cThe main difference is that we use real veterans, and Youssef\u2019s story is a combination of their stories,\u201d the star explained at Tallinn on Sunday. \u201cThe script<\/a> is a cocktail of real experiences. If I had had some actors with me, I\u2019m sure we could have made a wonderful movie. But when you succeed in having real people being themselves in an environment where they feel comfortable, and they forget that we\u2019re making the movie, and then the filmmakers around them, tell the story through them, the experience [is different]. When you watch the movie, I hope you will feel it just goes a layer deeper.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tTrine Dyrholm in \u2018The Danish Woman\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Icelandic Film Centre<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tAdded Salim: \u201cI can\u2019t recreate what they do, but I can, as a sponge, take that energy and translate that story to the audience. \u2026 So, the use of real veterans in a real veterans center gives this movie a special layer.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Dyrholm, in the new series\u00a0The Danish Woman<\/em>, stars as Ditte Jensen, who retires from the Danish Secret Service to live a quiet life in Reykjavik, Iceland. However, she can\u2019t stop being the elite soldier and warrior she was trained to be. So, she decides to help her neighbors. The six-episode series comes from director\u00a0Benedikt Erlingsson\u00a0(Woman at War<\/em>,\u00a0Of Horses and Men<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe is a very brutal character, both because of her past, but also because she acts like an emperor,\u201d Dyrholm shared at Tallinn on Sunday. \u201cThe director always always says, if you mix Napoleon, Pippi Longstocking, and Rambo, you have The Danish Woman<\/em>. So that is kind of the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAgain, PTSD is a key factor. \u201cShe has been a soldier in all the wars where Denmark has participated, and there are some flashbacks,\u201d Dyrholm said about her character. So, yeah, she has PTSD.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHow did she prepare for the role? \u201cSometimes, we have to do a lot of research, but basically it is trying to put on the character\u2019s eyes and look at the world from their perspective. And that is a very, very special position to be in, because you have to lean into a lot of unknown material.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tShe added: \u201cSomehow, we have seen so much now of war and horrible stuff, and just to imagine these things is, if you then have another person\u2019s story to dig into,\u201d what gets you into a character. \u201cIt\u2019s special work somehow to dig into these other people\u2019s lives that we have actually no idea about how it is to be in, but we can imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSalim also shared: \u201cI\u2019m a product of war myself. My parents ran away from Iraq when I was one year old. It\u2019s a refugee story. We ended up in Denmark when I was seven. PTSD is not a foreign thing for me, and at the end of the day, I think this is a movie about veterans and about PTSD, but you have to just go into it with an open mind and be curious, and actually go in and feel like the amateur between these professionals, because they are the veterans. So it\u2019s about spending time learning their stories, listening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdded the star: \u201cI think none of us are foreign to being hurt in life. It can be a very strong divorce. It can be something with children. It can be a health issue. Not all our dreams come true. And this movie is really about taking an extreme environment, with very masculine men, and showing what happens to these guys who take responsibility, and they cannot live up to their own image. They are broken. How do they get back to life? And you can translate that to everyone. And I certainly can recognize that feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tTrine Dyrholn (middle) and Dar Salim (right) at Tallinn<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tSalim is very proud of Hercules Falling<\/em>. \u201cI can tell you that already now, for me, this movie has been a huge, huge success on a personal level and on many levels. It\u2019s very hard today, with all the options we have for entertainment, to convince people to go and watch a movie about a guy who doesn\u2019t feel so good. I still hope they do, because it\u2019s a wonderful experience once you\u2019re in that theater room, but it\u2019s hard to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added: \u201cWe\u2019ve already had a lot of veteran viewings, and the amount of messages I\u2019ve gotten which are so heartfelt from people who, for the first time, feel seen is very touching. We world moves on so fast. People almost get their news<\/a> on Facebook<\/a>. \u2018We should get more arms. We should go to more wars.\u2019 I\u2019m not a politician. I\u2019m not going to say what\u2019s right or what\u2019s wrong, but we have to remember that these people are actually stuck in that one or two deployments they were in, and they\u2019re still suffering, and their families are still suffering, so they [must] feel seen. So, I think this movie is already doing a lot for the veteran environment in Denmark.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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