Tommy Wirkola, Noomi Rapace – What Happened to Monday – Seven Sisters #TFF35

PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Tommy Wirkola and Noomi Rapace, director and actress of the film What Happened to Monday – Seven Sisters.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Tommy Wirkola and Noomi Rapace, director and absolute protagonist of What Happened to Monday, presented at the 35th Torino Film Festival in the Festa Mobile section. The film sees Noomi Rapace playing seven identical sisters, developing their personalities and personal journeys in this distopic future where, because of overpopulation threatening the planet’s resources, the One Child Policy forces people to have one child only. The seven sisters manage to hide for 30 years but something goes wrong and they will have to fight to survive. Noomi Rapace describes how challenging this acting experience was for her, from having to die multiple times and then mourn her own death to physically fight with “herself”. Wirkola reveals that it was his decision to change the protagonist from male to female as in the beginning it was supposed to be Seven Brothers.

What Happened to Monday – Seven Sisters:  The out-of-control birth rate has forced governments to enact the drastic One-Child-Policy instituted by the Child Allocation Bureau, which is directed by Dr. Cayman, who has decreed that all children in excess must be hibernated. A woman dies giving birth to septuplet girls and, to save them all, their grandfather hides them and names them Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Each one of them may leave the house only on the day that corresponds to their name; they use the shared identity of Karen Settman and are forbidden from revealing their family secret. Hidden for six days a week, the seven sisters are only free to be themselves in the prison of the apartment in which they live. Everything goes smoothly until one day Monday doesn’t return home…

For the official page of the film on the Festival website, click here.