{"id":1684,"date":"2016-06-29T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T10:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2016-06-29T10:38:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T10:38:43","slug":"danish-actor-arrives-at-shanghai-international-film-festival-to-launch-directorial-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"Danish actor arrives at Shanghai International Film Festival to launch directorial debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After two glamorous decades as one of the Europe&#8217;s most acclaimed actors, Ulrich Thomsen of Denmark is trying his hand at directing. His debut directorial work,\u00a0<em>In Embryo<\/em>, had its world debut during the Shanghai International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><em>In Embryo<\/em>\u00a0tells a twisted love story between Sean, a drug dealer (Ross McCall) and Lilly (Kristen Hager), a heroin addict. It is considered an &#8220;art film,&#8221; with plenty of close-ups, long takes without dialogue and heavy symbolism, leaving the audience with an enduring afterthought about substance and domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Following his first acting gig in 1994&#8217;s Nightwatch, directed by Ole Bornedal, the great Dane has played a number of acclaimed roles, including in Thomas Vinterberg&#8217;s The Biggest Heroes (1996), Susanne Bier&#8217;s Sekten (1997) and Anders Thomas Jensen&#8217;s Flickering Lights (2000).<\/p>\n<p>His global breakthrough came in 1998 as an abused son in Thomas Vinterberg&#8217;s incest drama The Celebration. Within China, the Danish actor might be most identified with his character Sasha Davidov in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole interview in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/991101.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Globaltimes.cn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After two glamorous decades as one of the Europe&#8217;s most acclaimed actors, Ulrich Thomsen of Denmark is trying his hand at directing. His debut directorial work,\u00a0In Embryo, had its world debut during the Shanghai International Film Festival. In Embryo\u00a0tells a twisted love story between Sean, a drug dealer (Ross McCall) and Lilly (Kristen Hager), a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[33,5,10,36,38,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichthomsenactor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}