Swedish newspaper article about Lina

[drakkar]

Thanks

[randwill]

Now if an industrious Swedish native speaker could provide an accurate translation...

I know Google can sort of do it, but the emphasis is on the "sort of".

[nithr]

not much news really.
- she barely has any contact with the other actors from the movie anymore. just a little bit on facebook.
- if she doesn't become an actor after school she might be a journalist or lawyer.
- she wants to travel and maybe live in africa for a couple of year before starting work (lol why?).

everything else is old that she's been dancing, found the role on stagepool, how long it took to shoot the movie etc.

[abner_mohl]

I processed the PDF thru an OCR program, don't know how accurate it rendered it:

"Jag vill garna bli skadespelare efter skolan"
Lina fick mersmak av rollen som vampyr

— Jag har dansat och speIat teater anda sedan jag var atta ar. Efter det borjade jag "gymma" ett tag, med det blev fort trakigt, sa nu far det nog bli dans igen, sager Lina Leandersson som hade en av huvudrollerna i succéfilmen Lat den ratte komma in. Nu har det gatt nagra ar sedan premiairen, men Lina hoppas kunnajobba som skadespelerska i framtiden.

Lina som var medlem pa en hemsida fran Stagepool sag att de sokte en skadespelare eller skadespelerska i hennes alder till en film inspelning.

Den sokande skulle helst ocksa vara vig och smidig, sa rollen skulle
med andra ord passa henne som hand i handske. Lina hade turen med sig och
fick aka till Stockholm pa audition och visa vem hon var; och vad hon kunde.

Forst pa plats i Stockholm fick hon veta att nastan 3000 sokt rollen som blodtorstig vampyr till filmen Lét den ratte komma in.

Akte pa casting
— Jag var ner till Stockholm tre ganger innan jag fick traffa Tomas Alfredsson som regisserade filmen, och forst fjarde gangen fick jag traffa Kare Hedebrandt, min motspelare "Oskar". Naturligtv is var det jattenervost infor castingen, men jag tankte att bara jag gor mitt basta, sedan far det bli som det vill med resten, tankte jag.

— Jag gjorde nog att bra intryck, for jag var den som antagligen lyckades
bast och fick rollen, sager Lina och lyser med hela ansiktet.

Alfredsscn regissor
Filmen spelades in i bade Umea och Stockholm, och det tog tre manader att spela 1n den nastan tva timmar langa filmen. Lina visste ingenting om vad som skulle handa ifor varje taging, i stallet fick hon det berattat av Tomas Alfredsson nar tagningen skulle goras. Lina tror att det var for att 1nte hon skulle lasa in manuset 1 forvag 0ch tolka scenen pa sitt eget satt.

Vill resa efter skclan
— Det var inga som helst problem med inspelningen, alla var sa bra och hur gulliga som helst, Nar jag gatt klart nian har i Falun tanker jag soka till Sodra Latin i Stockholm till estetiska linjen, och sedan ska jag soka scenskolan. Ty varr har jag ingen kontakt med skadespelarna fran
filmen langre, bara lite pa Facebook.

— Blir det inte film i framtiden sa kan jag tanka mig att bli journalist eller kanske rentav advokat. Det verkar ocksa intressant tycker jag. Men innan jag borjar jobba tanker jag aka ut och resa runt i varlden forst, och da framst till Afrika. Dar kanns det nastan som att jag skulle kunna bo naget ar; Vi far val se vad det blir, det ar ju anda nagra ar kvar i skolan, sager Lina.

Google Swedish to English translation:

"I'd love to get injured players after school"
Lina got a taste of the role of a vampire

- I have danced and speIat theater ever since I was eight years old. After that I started "gym" for a while, but it quickly got boring, so now it'll probably be dancing again, "says Lina Leandersson who had a leading role in the hit film Let the Right One In. Now it has been some years since Premiair, but Lina hopes to work as an actress in the future.

Lina was a member of a website from Stagepool saw that they looked for an injured player or actress in her age for a film shooting.

Applicants should preferably also be nimble and flexible, said the role would
In other words fit her like a glove. Lina had luck on his side and
I go to Stockholm at the audition and show who she was, and what she could.

First to arrive in Stockholm, she was told that almost 3000 sought the role of bloodthirsty vampires for the film Let the Right One In.

Went on a casting
- I was down to Stockholm three times before I got to meet Tomas Alfredsson, who directed the film, and only the fourth time I got to meet Kare Hede Brandt, my opponent "Oskar". Naturligtv ice was jattenervost information casting, but I thought only I do my best, then I will do as it wishes with the rest, I thought.

- I did enough good impression, because I was the one who probably got
straw and got the part, "says Lina and shines all over his face.

Alfredsscn director
The film was shot in both Umeå and Stockholm, and it took three months to play 1n the almost two-hour movie. Lina knew nothing about what would happen ifor each taging, the barn, she is told by Tomas Alfredsson when shooting would be done. Lina think it was for that 1nte she would load a script beforehand 0ch interpret the scene in their own way.

Want to travel after skclan
- There was no problem with recording, everyone was saying how good and cute as anything, that I've been clear, the ninth grade in Falun, I intend to apply for schools in Stockholm to the esthetic line, and then should I look for drama school. Unfortunately I have no contact with the injured players from
the movie longer, just a bit on Facebook.

- Is there film in the future said, I can imagine to be a journalist or maybe even a lawyer. It also seems interesting, I think. But before I start working I will go out and travel around the world first, mainly to Africa. Dar, it almost feels like I could live naget s, we'll see what happens, it is after all a few years left in school, "says Lina.

[randwill]

Thanks for the translation, abner_mohl.

"Injured player" must be "actor". As with all these translation services, there are funny glitches. If you've looked at English translations of much that is written in Swedish about Lina, you know her name usually translates as "rope".

Good work, Team Eli. In less than 12 hours from the time of the original post, we all had access to a PDF, and translation, of the newspaper article.

Edited to add: A good friend of mine's daughter is just finishing up 3 months in Africa as part of her college experience. She loved it and learned a great many things about herself and the world. It would be a good thing for Lina or any young person who has such an opportunity.

[abner_mohl]

One hilarious mistranslation is Per Ragnar as Spalding Gray, the name of the American playwright, and actor.

[johnlord]

Thanks also to YOU johnlord and to CyberGhostFace. Any new information about Lina is priceless. John Lord, what a great organist!

You probably meant Jon Lord, ex-Deep Purple organist, but unfortunately and certainly surprisingly it's not me

[mahler]

Thanks also to YOU johnlord and to CyberGhostFace. Any new information about Lina is priceless. John Lord, what a great organist!

You probably meant Jon Lord, ex-Deep Purple organist, but unfortunately and certainly surprisingly it's not me

Sorry. I thought you were inspired by him.

[PeteMork]

Good...

But this is my favorite! Eli at fifteen.

[a_contemplative_life]

I'd say the days of her being passed off as a boy, if they ever existed, are behind her...