![]() Some of her exchanges with “ninjababy” are rather brutal, vulgar even. That's what I am trying to teach my children, but it doesn't work. She doesn't know what she wants to do in her life, but I still wanted people to see her for what she does, not how she looks – even though Kristine is so wonderful, despite Rakel's greasy hair. We need more of that when we are younger, so don't regret your mistakes! I mean, you will regret them, but you don't need to show it. I really connected to the oldest one: she didn't care about what others thought anymore. In my previous film, I showed three women: one who was in her twenties, another in her late thirties, and a third in her sixties. In rom coms, at best, you can get what Mindy Kaling called a “klutz”: a good-looking yet clumsy woman, “like a drunk buffalo who has never been a part of human society.” Rakel is so comfortable in her own skin that it's almost shocking. Girls need to learn not to please others too much - you have to please yourself, too. We talked a lot about the pressure that we put on ourselves, the pressure that's put on us by society. If she doesn't feel like taking a shower, she doesn't take a shower. She feels she is not good enough to become a mother, but she doesn't feel ashamed of the way she lives or that her place is dirty. So not having her being shamed or having second thoughts was important. Inga and I wanted to broaden the way women are shown in film. I am a mother of two, but I will fight to my death for the right to choose. I didn't want to give her the option, to have that scene when she has to decide. You are in Poland and I know abortion is an issue there, but I didn't want this film to be about abortion. Yes, three potential fathers are being discussed and her friend exclaims: “It's like Mamma Mia!”, but it's not a judgement. But when you get pregnant, your relationships with these men change. She sleeps around if she wants to, she is free-spirited. I wanted to tell a story about a young woman who has this sex drive most of my friends had in their twenties. Then I did two seasons of the series Home Ground and met screenwriter Johan Fasting – he came up with the “ninjababy” and elaborated on the male characters. It’s “emotional animation”, but we also wanted to use it for comedy, with drawings of all these big dicks. I worked with Inga Sætre, who wrote the graphic novel this is loosely based on, and my first idea was to have this mix of live-action and animation.
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