New Jönsson league against the wall

Of: Jan-Olov Andersson

Published: December 25, 2020 at 6.15 p.m.

Photo: C MORE

David Sundin, Anders “Ankan” Johansson, Henrik Dorsin and Hedda Stiernstedt are the new Jönsson league

Jönssonligan is resurrected!
Tomas Alfredson’s “Beware of the Jönsson League” has just premiered on C More.
Aftonbladet has put the new members of the league against the wall. How do you remember the original movies? The actors who played their roles? And what are they doing now?

Henrik Dorsin, 43, plays Charles-Ingvar “Sickan” Jönsson

What is your relationship with the original films?
– For those of my generation, they were something that you could see with your parents without feeling that they were taking one to the movies just for the sake of the children. They also kept them, it was great to see and laugh at something together. It was more than just “Emil and the pig’s knuckle.”
What is your relationship with Gösta Ekman?
– He is my great idol, so there are great shoes to fill. Some things I do consciously in the same style as him. When “Sickan” says “it’s timed and clear”, there is a special twist to saying the same as Gösta. Otherwise, I also looked at the Danish and Norwegian models. I saw how they did it. What role does he play in the league?
It was your idea to make the movie. As a step?
– The production company FLX acquires rights to old stories. “Why don’t you have the Jönsson League?” I asked jokingly at a meeting. But you can’t joke, so they act. Damn, I thought, when they bought the rights. Tomas Alfredsons the name came up, we have to have a director. We never thought it would be relevant, but it clicked between me and him. We talk a lot about Gösta Ekman, he was on the crank when he passed away and Tomas had met him. We decided to make the film as a tribute to Gösta.
What are you up to now?
– The scalar view is like in a bag and waiting. We hope to have a premiere on March 11, otherwise it will probably be in the fall. Then comes a second wave of “Unclear Release Date” on SVT on weekdays. We have a wonderful line up, med Lisa nilsson, Sarah Dawn Finer, David sundin, Babben Larsson, Lena Endre and Stina ekblad.
You have breathed new life into both Åsa-Nisse (as a screenwriter) and the Jönsson League. Do you have more ideas of this type?
– I only have one wish, I don’t know who has the rights – Little Fridolf. With me and my wifeHanna dorsin) as Selma.

Anders “Ankan” Johansson, 46, plays Vanheden

What is your relationship with the original films?
– The first film about the Jönsson League was the first I saw in the cinema without my parents. I immersed myself in the universe of cinema and I thought: How is it possible to make a film that is just for me? It struck in the heart. I wanted to live in his world.
What is your relationship with Ulf Brunnberg?
– I saw such a funny interview with him where he told me that people had said: “Play again”. But he would be like this. It’s amazing, the way it walks. I cannot do that, I cannot try to be Ulf Brunnberg, it would have been to shoot himself in the head.
In the movie, Vanheden lives at home with his parents, who have a radio and television store. Do you seem to have trouble freeing yourself from them …?
– They have store operations in the same house where they live, it can be a suffocating environment. A family can be great, it can also be clumsy, clumsy, and difficult to leave. He wants to go out and do mischief. It was a fantastic gift to work with Lennart Hjulström and Marie Göranzon. At first I was terribly nervous. Since then I have never laughed as much as when I was working with Marie, it was so fucking funny. And when Vanheden is about to leave and Dad looks at him with narrowed eyes… Lennart Hjulström is in such good shape that I was very scared.
You’re on “On Track” again. Is it the same arrangement that you compete with Marianne Ahrne and with your hairstyle, as an extra element?
– Exactly. But I think Marianne Ahrne’s hairstyle gets very little attention, even if it’s quieter.
What are you up to now?
– I have written a play, “Mission Unsuccessful”, a romantic sci-fi farce, which I will start rehearsing with Teater Jaguar in Gothenburg. Then must Måns (Nilsson) and I went on tour in May, it is said, but we don’t know if it will happen.

Hedda Stiernstedt, 33, plays Doris

What is your relationship with the original films?
– Probably before this I had never actively sat watching them, but I have still managed to see them all several times! Movies are something that everyone in Sweden has a relationship with. They have been difficult to avoid, they are part of the soul of the Swedish people.
What is your relationship with Birgitta Andersson?
– He did so well with Doris, that I try to keep Doris’s heart while doing it my way. She is new, but has traits that you recognize. I don’t think it would have been possible to do the Jönsson League in the same way today, that the only woman in the league had sat in the house and waited.
– I met Birgitta before the recording, it was a lot of fun.
In the movie, Doris makes a very special variation of spaghetti bolognese. What is your real recipe like?
– I love to eat, but I’m really bad at cooking.
What were the funniest scenes to do?
– It is difficult to choose a specific scene. I think the best thing was when the whole league was together, then it became a good energy and we had a lot of fun together.
What are you up to now?
– There are double premieres on Christmas Day. Not only Jönssonligan’s movie, but also “Our time is now – 1951” on SVT. Since then, I have been to Norway and worked on a TV series and will be going back there one shift after New Years.
How does it feel that “Our time is now” is finally over?
– It feels good in this form. Måns Herngren (director) has done a great job, the show has new blood, it feels like a worthy ending, I hope and think people will appreciate it. So it feels good to leave the big series and the role now.

David sundin, 44, plays Harry

What is your relationship with the original films?
– I wasn’t old enough to see them in the movies. Instead, it became a family tradition to watch them on television. We also had them on vhs. They were a big and important part of what I ate and I thought it was fun in childhood.
What is your relationship with Björn Gustafson?
– The names and the relationships and the sentiment persist, then there are so many novelties, so there will be no exact comparisons, which made this or that, as if we had been closer to the original films. My Harry is neither exploding nor drunk, although he likes to have a drink. There is nothing that matters in the story.
Harry is very afraid of heights when the Jönsson League climbs the wall of one of Hötorg’s skyscrapers. Are you so scared
– Yes, but actually I am, when it comes to the crisis. But it was not as strong as it seems in the movie.
A woman I saw the Jönssonligan movie with said: “Is it from” Best in test “? How handsome is he without a mustache?
– This is breaking news! My biggest annoyance is that I’m so ugly without a mustache.
Here Hedda Stiernstedt breaks into the discussion:
– This nojan is really real to David. So much so that the worm and wardrobe department had to make a mock mustache, a copy of the real one, so he could have it for recordings and interviews on “Best in Test.”
David Sundin again:
– It was also the loose mustache that I took to the Melodifestivalen so I could take it off later.
Are you so happy that “Best in Test” became such a hit that TV 4 felt compelled to change the air date of “Let’s dance”?
– Satisfied, yes … that means that we have done very well, after having previously been beaten (when it comes to seeing figures) by “Let’s dance”.

What are you up to now?
– I have learned more from all the foster children that Doris and Harry have in the Jönsson league, so now I will do a toddler program for SVT children. And then “Best in test” returns on February 26th.

Published: December 25, 2020 at 6.15 p.m.

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