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"Fame and celebrity culture - it’s never been my goal. I want people to go into a movie and forget that it’s me."
— Noomi Rapace.

"I’m not here to be beautiful. I’m not here to be sexy. Sometimes you can do a sexy part, or play a woman who’s supposed to be beautiful, and then we can do beauty. That’s for another movie. But for this movie it was sweat. More sweat, then more dirt. More blood. The make-up artist said that it was unusual for actors to ask for more fake blood and sweat but I loved it."
— Noomi Rapace about her character in Prometheus.

"The 8 last minutes of Prometheus will have a link with Alien first movie"
— Ridley Scott at the Prometheus Press Conference in Paris (x)

  • Interviewer: The chemistry between you and journalist Blomkvist [Nyqvist] makes for a very unusual relationship because of the difference in age and background. But most surprising is when she seduces him. Is that typical for the women of Sweden? [laughs]
  • Noomi Rapace: They will come and knock on your door and seduce you. [laughs]

"She’s in me. I’ll always carry around my character."
— Noomi Rapace on Lisbeth salander

"In Rome, two 25-year-old guys approached me with tears in their eyes and asked: ‘Can we get a picture, Lisbeth?’. She still means a lot to people."
— Noomi Rapace

"If you just follow your own voice, you will eventually end up with the right people, at the right time."
— Noomi Rapace (via jagfinnsinte)

“I exercised four to five days a week, doing cardio and Thai kickboxing with a crazy Serbian guy. I was on a certain diet because I wanted to be a tomboy like Lisbeth. She’s a bit cartoonish sometimes, in the book. It’s hard to believe that she can do all of these things, especially since she’s small, anorexic, only eats junk food and smokes all the time, yet Lisbeth can fight ten guys and win. She can run like a sprinter, so sometimes it was hard for me to get a clear picture of who she really was, and that made me want to humanize her and be credible and realistic. I transformed my body to be able to do everything from the fight scenes to driving a motorcycle. I cut my hair and had piercings to go as far as I possibly could with her character.” -Noomi Rapace.

“I exercised four to five days a week, doing cardio and Thai kickboxing with a crazy Serbian guy. I was on a certain diet because I wanted to be a tomboy like Lisbeth. She’s a bit cartoonish sometimes, in the book. It’s hard to believe that she can do all of these things, especially since she’s small, anorexic, only eats junk food and smokes all the time, yet Lisbeth can fight ten guys and win. She can run like a sprinter, so sometimes it was hard for me to get a clear picture of who she really was, and that made me want to humanize her and be credible and realistic. I transformed my body to be able to do everything from the fight scenes to driving a motorcycle. I cut my hair and had piercings to go as far as I possibly could with her character.” -Noomi Rapace.


"I try to do as much as they allowed me to do. You get bruised, and your body aches, and you hurt yourself, but that’s kind of part of it. I am very self-critical, and I don’t like to pretend."
— Noomi Rapace

"Many times, people expect me to be like Lisbeth and to come in as this aggressive, black-dressed, hard-rock girl! But I’m an actress. I can be fat and blonde, or skinny with black hair. I can transform myself for whatever it takes."
— Noomi Rapace

  • Movies.com: Over the course of your career you’ve been able to handle an arsenal of weapons. What’s your favorite weapon of choice at the moment?
  • Noomi: I like knives. I became quite good at throwing them. You need to have a really good technique and it’s almost like in darts, the way you throw, you need to have the whole body in it. I do like weapons [Laughs]. I remember one scene where we were running through the woods to get to a train. We were running and hiding and shooting and we had rehearsed the scene a couple of times. We were all ready to go, I had this heavy rifle and the stunt guys came to me and asked me to put in ear plugs. I kept refusing but eventually I put them in. I see the sign for action and I run. Robert and Jude were supposed to scream things to me and we were supposed to talk. There was dialogue written in it and I couldn’t hear a thing. I was running so fast, shooting and screaming and then I realized nobody was around me. It was only me and it was so embarrassing. I took the ear plugs out and I was really angry. Robert came up to me and said, “I love your temperament. I really understand you.” He turns and says, “Don’t give Noomi those f*cking ear plugs again.” [Laughs]

"I always felt like I didn’t fit in anywhere, which made me relate to Lisbeth’s feelings of being an “alien”, as Stieg Larsson described her."
— Noomi Rapace.

"He’s really sensitive and he’s really interested in what you have to say, he was always asking me, “What do you think Noomi? How would you do this?” So I’d whisper, “Maybe I have this idea,” and he’d be liked [sic], “Tell me,” then I’d tell him and he’d be like, “EVERYBODY, NOOMI HAS THIS GREAT IDEA, WE SHOULD DO THAT!” (Laughs) He was absolutely so loving, so humble, so sweet. He’s super intelligent, it feels like he sees things that nobody else would even reflect on. You have to be super focused and there with him, then it feels like anything can happen. He’s one of the greatest. He’s always exploring things, scanning his surroundings, he has a very sharp eye. His Sherlock is almost like he’s dancing around, I like the way that he’s doing it in a very playful and fun way."
— Noomi Rapace about Robert Downey Jr. (via 1537paperstreet)

“For me, it was important to fully understand Lisbeth to give her life. I wanted her to be complicated but extreme. She had to be a character you’ve never seen before yet still allow the audience to connect with her, so it was a balance between how much I should let her emotions out and how much I should keep in. I had many arguments about that with Niels, who would sometimes tell me that he wanted to see more of what was going on inside of Lisbeth, and I said, “No, I can’t do that.” Lisbeth has learned how to control her face and body so she can hide her feelings, and she wouldn’t be reacting the way Niels wanted me to in those cases.” -NOOMI RAPACE.

“For me, it was important to fully understand Lisbeth to give her life. I wanted her to be complicated but extreme. She had to be a character you’ve never seen before yet still allow the audience to connect with her, so it was a balance between how much I should let her emotions out and how much I should keep in. I had many arguments about that with Niels, who would sometimes tell me that he wanted to see more of what was going on inside of Lisbeth, and I said, “No, I can’t do that.” Lisbeth has learned how to control her face and body so she can hide her feelings, and she wouldn’t be reacting the way Niels wanted me to in those cases.” -NOOMI RAPACE.