Alicia Vikander hasn’t celebrated her 30th birthday yet, but the Oscar winner is set to receive yet another prestigious honor. She’ll take home the Nordic Honorary Dragon Award from Sweden’s Goteborg Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. Her latest film will also screen in competition at the fest, which takes place in her hometown of Gothenburg.
Written and directed by Lisa Langseth, “Euphoria” sees Vikander and “Penny Dreadful” alumna Eva Green playing sisters traveling through Europe. “The film poses questions about responsibility and freedom, both individual and in a broader political sense without delivering any easy answers,” Langseth told us.
Vikander won an Oscar in 2016 for her supporting role in “The Danish Girl.” “Ex Machina,” “Testament of Youth,” and “The Light Between Oceans” are among her other credits. She plays Lara Croft in the upcoming “Tomb Raider” reboot, set to bow March 16, 2018.
“I’m very honored to be chosen by the festival and to receive this award at the same time as ‘Euphoria’ is finally being shown to Swedish audiences,” Vikander said in a statement. “It has been such a privilege to work with Lisa again. Lisa tells the stories that no one else dares to address, but that touch on something genuine and intimate about issues we can all relate to. ‘Euphoria’ is especially important to me as it is my first time as co-producer. It has a distinctly female voice, and it is full of female talent on both sides of the camera.”
Vikander was among the nearly 600 actresses to sign an open letter criticizing the culture of abuse in Swedish film and theater published in November.
Goteborg Film Festival runs from January 27–28.
