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‘Borgen’s’ Birgitte Hjort Sørensen and Sara Isabella Jønsson, Star and Creator of Canneseries ‘Dark Horse,’ Talk Drugs, Toxic Mother-Daughter Relations
‘Borgen’’s Birgitte Hjort Sorensen talks drugs and mother-daughter relations with the creator of the Canneseries’ ‘Dark Horse.’
“From the get go, the symbiotic and co-dependent mother-daughter relationship has been the beating heart of the story and even more so when it evolved into a highly dysfunctional one,” said fast-rising writing talent Sara Isabella Jønsson who co-created and co-wrote the Netflix show “Copenhagen Cowboy” with Nicolas Winding Refn and earned two Danish national Robert Awards – best screenplay– for the films “Unruly” and “Persona Non Grata.” But the very first idea to set the story in a small town where the youths feel restless, came six-seven years ago at a difficult time in her life, when she was grieving the sudden loss of her younger brother from a traffic accident. Next up for the hot writer Jønssson who shares her life with internationally acclaimed writer-director Nikola Arcel (“The Promised Land”, “A Royal Affair”), is “Wannabe,” co-written with “Dark Horse”’s Skjoldemose and newcomer Patricia Bbaale Bandak who will direct.
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