In “The Assessment,” the climate change-fueled psychological thriller from Fleur Fortuné, Oscar winner Alicia Vikander plays a government assessor in a dystopian future where resources are so scarce that couples must be approved to have children.
The irony is that while shooting the film, Vikander herself was four months pregnant.
“What I kind of went through, you know, between takes obviously brought a lot to it… I did definitely have, like, a quite profound emotional balance to how I portrayed that character due to that,” Vikander told TheWrap editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman at TheWrap’s 2024 TIFF Studio sponsored by Moët & Chandon and Boss Design.