Så var det jul igjen / Christmas as usual.

Just before Christmas 2022 I was standing in queue at a coffee shop on Torshov in Oslo, also looking for coffee that morning were Petter Holmsen, a director I briefly worked with at Oljefondet - a series set at the Norwegian Oil Funds offices, many years ago. We catched up, talked about Christmas traditions and when I was about to leave he mentioned he might have a part for me in his next film. At the time I had discovered that I was pregnant but it didn’t show yet, I was also in the middle of making a series in Finland and wasn´t expecting to do more acting work than that any time soon. So I asked politely when the shoot would be, he told med next spring and I told him as truth were that I probably would be eight months pregnant at the time where as he responded: “Are you kidding me!? The character is pregnant!” We started shooting in march 2023 and it premiered on Netflix just before Christmas the same year. One of my goals for the shoot, my character being somewhat a comic relief, was to eat something in every single shot - which fitted perfectly with my natural state at the time. Although it was tougher to be eight months pregnant and working than I expected ( I would not recommend it if it’s your first and you don’t know how your body acts during a pregnancy ) - I think it’s cute to have made a movie with my daughter and will probably force it on her every Christmas till I die.