As you know I’m not an actor, I have merely been in one amateurish movie and will possibly be on stage next year. It’s a show that takes place in a simulated world. Today I in a weird way was reminded of my grandpas acting career. I was surfing wikipedia and came to the Swedish page for “Exploitation film”. It mentioned Thriller en grym film/Thriller a cruel picture - a movie it’s not possible to mention without claiming it was one inspiration for Kill Bill, that’s an obligatory claim. I have not seen that 1970s “rape and revange” movie, but it stars Christina Lindberg. She also had a role in a historical movie a reviewer on IMBD called: “Greatest trainwreck in swedish movie history”. My grandpa had a role as an extra in that movie.
Ok my grandpa was a farmer, the reason he had a role as an extra was because that movie was filmed near his farm and they took extras from the home guard. Still, why not say that my grandpa acted with the actress from a cult movie and I therefore come from an actor family - just like the Skarsgårds. Thinking about that, our last name also ends with “gård”. Coincidence?
Then writing about my family. I have heard my four year old niece sing “Itsy Bitsy Spider" in both Swedish and Finnish. She picked up those lyrics in her old kindergarten. That reminded me that she and her sister are 50% Finnish, who won’t speak Finnish. Well, they are not the only example of that. It’s possible that it was on livejournal I first read about Latinos in the US who don’t speak Spanish, just English. (I have no idea how common it is, just that it’s not unheard of.) I also think I have heard that if the mom in a “mixed ethnicity” family speaks a minority language, the kids will be bilingual. If it’s the dad that speaks the minority language, the children are less likely to be bilingual. Intresting.
Ok my grandpa was a farmer, the reason he had a role as an extra was because that movie was filmed near his farm and they took extras from the home guard. Still, why not say that my grandpa acted with the actress from a cult movie and I therefore come from an actor family - just like the Skarsgårds. Thinking about that, our last name also ends with “gård”. Coincidence?
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Then writing about my family. I have heard my four year old niece sing “Itsy Bitsy Spider" in both Swedish and Finnish. She picked up those lyrics in her old kindergarten. That reminded me that she and her sister are 50% Finnish, who won’t speak Finnish. Well, they are not the only example of that. It’s possible that it was on livejournal I first read about Latinos in the US who don’t speak Spanish, just English. (I have no idea how common it is, just that it’s not unheard of.) I also think I have heard that if the mom in a “mixed ethnicity” family speaks a minority language, the kids will be bilingual. If it’s the dad that speaks the minority language, the children are less likely to be bilingual. Intresting.