Axel Åhman is readied to star in the upcoming series” Body in the Closet created for Detector Bros International Television Manufacturing Finland.
He’ll play Staffan, a target market services employee at a theater. A nation boy, he has actually located his means into a big-city social institution and knows its history by heart. He also has a crush on Betty however is painfully awkward and thoughtless in his efforts to approach her.
This causes … his unexpected death by chainsaw. Nonetheless, it’s not completion for Staffan, as he returns to haunt Betty throughout the collection.
” I located it amusing to play a murder target. I like it when characters satisfy an unanticipated end, and when writers dare to go darker,” Åhman informed Range
” Funny is at its craziest when it dancings on the borderline of darkness,” he included. “We don’t see much dark funny in the Nordics. When I got the possibility to get involved, I simply had to tag along and see where it headed. It’s likewise a great obstacle to play someone else’s manuscript. I have actually generally played personalities from my own writing.”
As explained by producer Mia Oikarinen, Åhman is best referred to as a participant of the extremely preferred comedy team KAJ, however he’s likewise an author, film writer, comedian, artist and actor.
” His comic timing and history in creating make him a particularly strong fit for Staffan and for the collection’ darkly comic tone. He was very delighted that we thought about him for the role– and amused that we instantly imagined him as Staffan.”
Elin Grönblom routes. She co-wrote the show with Josefin Sonck, who will certainly play the lead. Grönblom and Sonck are currently understood for “Bloodsuckers.”
” I such as the style because it allows you to play and have fun. Horror, or in this instance, dark funny with some murder, is additionally a welcome form of avoidance. We like to see characters do points that we ourselves don’t dare to do, and most likely shouldn’t,” stated Grönblom.
Sonck concurred: Comedy and scary are closely associated.
” Both count on surprise and playing with the audience’s expectations. However this isn’t a ‘horror funny.’ It’s more concerning someone’s progressively desperate life circumstance, informed through dark humor and mythological components.”
” Body in the Storage room” will certainly start shooting following autumn, and Svenska YLE, the Swedish-language division of Finland’s public broadcaster YLE, is already on board.
” Josefin and I are both attracted to dark humor. It enables us to take a major subject– in this situation, egocentrism and the connection in between a narcissistic parent and kid– and show its absurdity via wit,” claimed Grönblom.
” When you can laugh, maybe annoyingly, you can additionally beam a light on something significant from one more angle. [The show] is embeded in a visually reasonable world: the gray Helsinki fall. Yet we exaggerate the personalities and the activity to develop a busy, funny tone.”
The story adheres to the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland.
” We belong to this minority as well, but it’s a globe that can be recognized anywhere. Especially the theatre globe with its discriminative, magnificent characters. Since the motif of the series is egocentrism, what far better phase to put them on?,” wondered Grönblom.
The team counts on the program’s “solid worldwide capacity.”
” All our personalities are driven by their own vanities and needs, and commonly fall short to see others around them. We poke fun at the progressively ridiculous circumstances these awful people put each other with,” observed Oikarinen.
She included: “Sometimes we require to laugh at them to handle what’s happening around us, specifically in this increasingly self-concerned– and frankly fairly frightening– world.”
According to Sonck, the show incorporates three components: an universal and timely theme, a dramatic plot with spins and cliffhangers, and an actors of “funny, wacky personalities who act out the things most of us secretly assume yet would never confess.”
“Our collection discovers self-absorption, the pursuit for recognition, and our efforts to manage exactly how we present ourselves to the world. The movie theater comes to be a symbolic setting for these styles. However it’s also an area where tricks are brought into the limelight.”
