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interview subject: Alexander Eik
mp interview content 0 question: The story of Crown Princess Martha and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) is no doubt surprising to many MASTERPIECE viewers. How did you go about uncovering the hidden history for the series?
mp interview content 0 answer: It all started back in 2011 actually, when I read a newspaper article about Crown Princess Martha and her experiences during the second World War. I was very surprised to see that she had a very close relationship to President Roosevelt, and I realized that I knew absolutely nothing about her. When I talked to my friends and colleagues, it turns out that none of us actually knew very much about her … very little had been written about Crown Princess Martha, and the few books that were written about her, were all describing her at a very cordial distance, written by people who actually didn t know her personally.
MASTERPIECE Behind the Scenes of Atlantic Crossing
Join actors Kyle MacLachlan and Sofia Helin, writers Alexander Eik and Linda May Kallestein, and MASTERPIECE Executive Producer Susanne Simpson as they go behind the scenes of the new MASTERPIECE series and answer questions from the audience. Register Here! Sunday, April 18, 2021
Join actors Kyle MacLachlan (
Twin Peaks) and Sofia Helin (
The Bridge), writers Alexander Eik and Linda May Kallestein, and MASTERPIECE Executive Producer Susanne Simpson as they go behind the scenes of the new MASTERPIECE series and answer questions from the audience.
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‘Atlantic Crossing’ crosses the Atlantic
April 8, 2021
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) has confirmed that its dramatization of Crown Princess Martha’s role during World War II is “mostly fiction.” The NRK series
Atlantic Crossing is now being aired on PBS’ venerable
Masterpiece Theater in the US, where hundreds of thousands of Norwegian-Americans may not be aware that it’s far from being factually correct.
Some scenes from NRK’s series
Atlantic Crossing are undeniably based on real events, like this depiction of the royal family’s triumphant return to Norway in June 1945, after the war had ended. Crown Princess Martha was played by Swedish actress Sofia Helin, while Norwegian actor Tobias Santelmann played the role of her husband, Crown Prince Olav. PHOTO: Cinenord/Beta Film/NRK/Morten Wien Solberg
BRUCE R. MILLER
To play Franklin Roosevelt in âAtlantic Crossing,â Kyle MacLachlan could have looked at dozens of award-winning performances. Instead, he leaned into Ken Burnsâ documentary on âThe Rooseveltsâ and pored over Doris Kearns Goodwinâs biography.
âThe research, for me, was really one of the greatest joys,â MacLachlan says during a Zoom interview. âThe challenge, of course, is to get inside the person and figure out the psychology and the âwhy,â you know? Just having footage of Roosevelt moving through space, how he carried himself in front of a crowdâ¦told me a lot about who he was as a person.â
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