Quite an interpretive challenge for Noomi Rapace, who carried out this production with remarkable
There are many cases of actors who have played several characters in the same film. It’s easy to remember Eddie Murphy in The crazy professor or, before him, Jerry Lewis in numerous productions. Monty Python have also done the same in several films and, taking note of this news, a surprising number of Indian actors have carried out similar projects.
Although there are many examples in comedy, in drama it is a little more difficult to find them, but they continue to appear. There is the myth The cloud atlasfrom the Wachowskis, and which we are here to talk about today: seven sisters. A science fiction film for those who like convoluted stories. If you want to see it, it is available to rent from €1.99 on RakutenTV.
seven sisters It is set in a dystopian future in which the planet suffers an overpopulation crisis. Dr. Nicolette Cayman has decreed a control policy called the Family Allowance Law and no one can have more than one child. If a family has more than one child, those born after the first will be cryogenized..
In this context, Terrence Settman struggles to raise his seven twin granddaughters. He has found the perfect way to hide them: each one has the name of a week and only that day can they go outside. They have to take turns to avoid being discovered and, although everything goes well until their adulthood, when one of them disappears everything will fall apart.
Reading the premise, you may have already imagined that the main character required greater interpretive complexity and they found the perfect candidate in Noomi Rapace. “Work with [el director] tommy [Wirkola] for maybe a year while he was developing the script,” Rapace said in an interview with Nylon“during this time, I discovered that I could build layered characters, treating them all as if they were the protagonists of the movie.“.
It would have been quite easy to just say: ‘Okay, this is the hot one, this is the slutty one, this is the shy one, this is the tomboy’, almost like a Spice Girls approach. But I want the public to believe in each of them, so I used my life. I have been the seven
Rapace used his personal experiences to create all the characters and thus managed to connect with them more directly, while making them more believable to the audience. When he needed to move from one to the other, he created a ritual based on playlists.
A phenomenon on TikTok
It was worth it? The truth is that there is a bit of everything in the comments, but we are not wrong if we say that, above all, it is an entertaining thriller that surprises those who allow themselves to be surprised. A popcorn movie to enjoy without regrets that surprises at some moments, although it leaves us cold at others.
The film premiered on Netflix in 2017 after years of biding its time. It was a project selected from the 2010 ‘Black List’ – the list of the most promising scripts in Hollywood that is prepared annually – but it had to wait until the streaming platform wanted to get its hands on it. It would be even longer until seven sisters became a viral phenomenon on TikTok. Social networks did their thing and caused many people to discover this film that, until now, had gone unnoticed.
