Bang is currently in Belfast – with his guitar – where he is playing a Viking inRobert Eggers’s new film, The Northmen, a bloody adaptation of Hamlet set in 10th- century Iceland and co-starring Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgard. He is sporting a healthy beard for the role and has been working out a lot. “There’s a big fight scene, bare-chested that they wanted me to look a bit more Viking-ish.
For real! I'm dying to see something from this.Sorry for the false alarm bump, but I NEED a trailer for this NOW!
The Northman star Ralph Ineson has shared details on Robert Eggers’ new Viking movie.
The actor, who is part of the sizeable ensemble cast in The Lighthouse director’s follow-up film, recently told NME he was “really blown away” with some early footage he had seen.
“It’s an enormous movie,” Ineson began. “I saw a four-minute montage of some of the stuff they’d already shot and I was really blown away. The marriage of Rob Eggers’ imagination and Viking folklore… Jesus, man.”
Describing a specific scene from the film, Ineson continued: “Alexander Skarsgård looks like an absolute beast.
“[There’s] a scene where he beats this guy in a battle; bends down and rips his throat out with his teeth, screams to the gods and he’s got his shirt off – and you think: ‘My god that’s not a bodybuilder doing a scene, that’s like a proper serious actor!’
“He’s made himself look like some kind of monster for the part, the dedication’s incredible. I think it will be a bit of a masterpiece, to be honest.”
Hopefully this works out better than the last time Ineson played a legendary sea-faring warrior.
We asked the actor if audiences should expect something brutal, given the director’s past works. ‘Oh yeah,’ he eagerly answered. ‘It’s incredibly violent and incredibly intense… it’s a crazy dark character, he does some horrific things in the movie. It’s really, really dark – but then again, it’s a Robert Eggers movie so it’s gonna be dark.’
He continued: ‘It was very tough to shoot because almost all of the scenes are shot with one single camera move. It’s tough when you have a big Viking battle sequence with like 100 extras, horses and chaos… to shoot that with no cuts is incredibly challenging.’
So there were long and very, very tough days… but equally, when you finally get that take after 30 tries, it’s like winning the World Cup. It’s the best feeling ever. It was a thrilling experience, but exhausting for sure.’

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