Frida Gustavsson was chosen to open Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli's Valentino debut — but her heart was always with acting. Now she's the star of Netflix's 'Vikings.'
series “Vikings: Valhalla,” as Freydis. It’s something she’s wanted ever since growing up in suburban Stockholm in a “very sporty, very normal working class family,” the daughter of a teacher and a salesman. Yet it never really seemed like a realistic career goal.Frida Gustavsson as Freydis in “Vikings: Valhalla.”
“It lit that fire inside of me that I tried to put down for so many years. It was like I could breathe, I could express myself,” she says. “I’m not just a vessel for someone else’s creativity, I’m not just interpreting what they want to say with the styling or with the makeup but I could actually express myself, and I loved it.”
“I feel like there are a lot of double standards with women in the film industry, and same with fashion,” she continues. “We’re expected to look a certain way and have a certain size and color of our skin but at the same time you’re supposed to not care and just show up and be natural, and it’s a difficult position that you can find yourself in sometimes.”
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