11.30.04 - Good news for all fans of Enemies: A Love Story. The upcoming 15th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival will be screening the film as part of their Tribute to Paul Mazursky. The director will be at the festival so perhaps some of you enquiring fans can ask him about his experience of working with Lena!
11.23.04 - Eeep! I completely overlooked LenaOlin[dot]net's anniversary. We turned 2 years old on Nov. 13th. Happy belated birthday to us! The contributors & visitors to this site are truly the best! Thanks for making it all so much fun!
Now how about some more pics?
Huge thanks to the ever generous J.C. for more fantastic scans!
Lobby cards of our favorite psycho, Mona, from Romeo Is Bleeding - one; two; three; four.
Lobby cards of Josephine getting a backbone from Chocolat - one and two.
And a still of lawyer Peggy enjoying breakfast in bed from Night Falls on Manhattan.
11.20.04 - Major thanks to Kris for her beautiful ULOB screencaps! Sabina! *swoon*
11.19.04 - Huge thanks to J.C. for these great Polish Wedding press kit gems! Ad & description; Poster; Mama & her boys; Bolek & Jadzia; Sexiest grandma ever; Lady in red; Jadzia, Hala & the "Gypsy!"; Jadzia in uniform.
11.18.04 - ETA - Big thanks to A for the beautiful Irina scan from the new Alias magazine.
Big thanks to Kakan for these fantastic caps from the making of The Telling from the Alias dvds! Action Lena - ho-yeah!
11.17.04 - Many thanks to J.C. for this sexy, gorgeous portrait from Glamour, Feb. 1991. And here's the small article that went with it.
Major thanks also to Lisa for another fantastic autographed After The Rehearsal still. Imagine Lena gazing into your eyes like this. *sigh*
11.10.04 - Big thanks to Em for a beautiful new wallpaper addition!
Big thanks too to Lisa for scanning this fun pic of Lena being crowned Miss Scandinavia! Hope to have her scan of the article tranlsated soon.
And big thanks to J.C. and Lisbeth for these terrific scans from Aftonbladet Sondag's Aug. 2003 issue (also hoping to have the translation soon).
Two gorgeous portraits: one & two.
Three great family pics: one, two, three.
And one theater pic.
11.07.04 - Giant thanks to Kris for creating some gorgeous, cool wallpapers especially for LenaOlin.net. I'm so honored! Head on over to the Art section and check 'em out!
11.05.04 - Huge thanks to Lisa not only for those fantastic Egg photos, but also for scans of the 1991 interview as well, now added to the Articles section. Oh boy, Lena had attitude to spare in this one! Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5;
11.04.04 - Major thanks to Jinnie for more highres gems! Lena at a Chocolat press junket: one; two; three; four; five; six; as well as this pic from Jan. 2001.
Big thanks to Lisa for these gorgeous scans of Lena from Egg magazine (the interview is coming soon)!: one; two; three.
And big thanks to Kakan for another great Lena and family pic!
11.01.04 - Huge thanks to Jinnie for these fantastic high res pics of Lena and her daughter at the Swedish reading/exhibit last Nov. - so great to have them in such big sizes!
one; two; three; four; five; six; seven; eight; nine; ten; eleven; twelve.
10.29.04 - Many thanks to Em for this great quote from the latest Alias magazine. David Anders on Lena Olin:
"I've been a fan of Lena's for a long itme. I think the first time I saw her was in 'Unbearable Lightness of Being'. Lena was an addition that was an absolute delight. It was interesting doing scenes with her because you'll forget your lines sometimes. She's got this gaze - she's hot"
10.28.04 - Big thanks to Yackella for translating a Lena & Lasse interview with Aftonbladet, from Dec. 2000.
Big thanks too to Kakan for this great Havana scan.
Big thanks as well to Lisa for sharing her rare autographed After The Rehearsal still! Also, she scanned Interview's 1991 article - part one; part two and part three.
10.27.04 - ETA - Huge thanks to Yackella for translating a new Lena interview with Sweden's tv4.se, talking about Alias.
Enormous thanks to Jinnie for more high res beauties! These are from the Alias press conference in Sept. 2002.
one; two; three; four; five; six; seven; eight and nine.
10.24.04 - Huge thanks to Yackella for translating the rare Aug. 1987 MånadsJournalen article for us! It's a great read.
And here are the gorgeous scans from the issue: one; two and three.
10.22.04 - Jinnie has blessed us with even more High Res gems! I absolutely love these Lena & Lasse photos from Feb. 2001 when they were in Sweden for Chocolat! Major thanks, Jinnie!
one; two; three; four; five and six.
10.21.04 - Huge thanks to J.C. for sharing these rare DAM Swedish magazine scans!
From Oct. 1991: Lena & Lasse and another Lena & Lasse.
From Jan. 1993: Lena & August; Lena's dad Stig & August and Lena.
From Jan. 1994: Lena & Lasse.
Huge thanks too to Jinnie for more High Res goodies! Lena at the 2001 Oscars: one and two. Lena at Shipping News premiere: one; two and three.
10.20.04 - Big thanks to Lisa for these Lena goodies! Two great Lena portraits: sexy Lena and casual Lena; And two great movie stills: Mr. Jones and Enemies
10.19.04 - Here's a cute little account of how our favorite Swedish couple found out about Lasse's Oscar nominations for The Cider House Rules:
Lasse Hallstrom was home in Bedford, N.Y., in bed with his wife, actress Lena Olin, on the morning of Feb. 15, watching TV. When Dustin Hoffman announced Hallstrom's Oscar nomination for best director of 1999, for The Cider House Rules, Hallstrom turned to Olin, and Olin turned to Hallstrom. They shared the same reaction -- utter disbelief.
Then the phone began to ring.
And ring.
''There had been no speculation about the Swede being one of the five,'' says the obviously tickled Hallstrom, a native of Stockholm. ''We were always mentioned as just outside the top five for best picture, but I hadn't seen my name at all. I was absolutely certain I wouldn't be nominated.''
To go along with this cute story, here are some High Res pics from the ever generous Jinnie of Lena and Lasse at that year's Oscar luncheon and party. (They look so happy and proud) one; two; three; four; five and six;
And here too are a few choice Emmy pics: one; two; three;
10.17.04 - Major thanks to sammy for translating the MånadsJournalen article! I like this one alot, it has some interesting bits on Lena and Lasse's opinions on Hollywood, plus a couple of personal touches. Obviously the movie they were going to make together, The Golden Afternoon fell through though.
Enjoy!
10.15.04 - Huge thanks to Jinnie for more beautimous High Res pics!
Three lovely Lena portraits from 1991 -
one; two; and three;
Two Lena and Lasse pics -
Mamma Mia opening and Party for Sophia Loren
Two gorgeous premiere pics -
one and two
Seven Cannes pics, including Lena getting all prettied up for one of the events (check out all those jewels *blink*) -
one; two; three; four; five; six; and seven;
10.11.04 - I scanned another of the Swedish magazines I bought, and boy do I love, love, love these pics!
Sexy Lena and Lasse cover.
Lasse giving Lena a look.
Lena looking highly amused.
The pics combined (love how her feet are in his lap).
Gorgeous Lena portrait.
Gorgeous Lasse portrait.
Cute baby Tora.
Lasse filming..
Yep, there's an article too, and sammy's working on the translation for us! Enjoy!
10.10.04 - I love this sweet pic of Lena and Lasse from a few years ago. So cute.
Many thanks to Jinnie for these high res Hollywood Homicide stills!
Lena; Lena & Harrison; and Lena, Harrison & Josh.
10.07.04 - Big thanks to Jinnie for more gems! I had never seen these pics from the Rome premeire of Chocolat. pic 1; pic 2; pic 3; pic 4;
Also have some more Cannes pics:
pic 1; pic 2; pic 3;
And lastly, but not least, big thanks to Lisa for this lovely Lena portrait!
10.06.04 - More candy from the ever generous Jinnie! My favorite is this beautiful close-up from Cannes. So pretty!
From the Berlin film fest, here's
Lena & Juliette
Lena, Lasse & Juliette
Lena & Lasse (love her expression)
contemplative Lena
I want skin like her's
Lastly from Jinnie: Lena & Lasse at the National Board of Review awards.
But wait, there's more! Many thanks to J.C. for sharing a couple more huge Havana publicity shots: Lena & Redford and Lena alone.
10.05.04 - Just finished reorganizing the site's Photos section. Yeah, I had been being lazy, just placing a lot of pics in the Portraits area. Many of those pics have now been moved to the Public Events section. Also reorganized the Family section.
Hopefully I didn't fudge things up, and it works properly. ;-)
10.03.04 - Big thanks to J.C. and Lisa for lots of sexy ULOB gems! I particularly love this portrait, and this dreamy, sexy one, and this mischievous one!
09.29.04 - Major thanks to Jinnie for the latest batch of eye-candy! More great pics of Lena and Tora at the Swedish exhibition/book reading in NYC last Nov.
And a big Happy Birthday to my sweet sister Patti!
09.27.04 - Here are a few teeny-tiny pics of Lena at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 5th. She looks goooood.
09.26.04 - Enormous thanks to Kris for these five awesome audio clips from Lena'a commentary on the ULOB dvd! Kris' description of them was so good, I'm just gonna copy and paste 'em. :-) -
*Clip 1 - Lena introduces herself and briefly covers how/why she was cast.
*Clip 2 - Talking about Sabina's relationship with Derek De Lint's character, her frustration, and her use of sexuality.
*Clip 3 - "So, I have a huge head." Funniest. bit. EVAR.
*Clip 4 - On Teresa's relationship with Sabina. As well as the relationships between the actors. As well as the hilarious "I'm heavy." line.
*Clip 5 - Discussing the "nude photography" scene, as well as Lena's philosphy on laundry.
09.24.04 - Big thanks to Kakan for these behind the scenes caps from the Ignition dvd! Lena looks like she really enjoyed shooting the action scens. :)
09.22.04 - Here ya go, as requested, a couple of dancing caps from RIB here and here. (Thanks to Kris for these.)
Big thanks to Lisa for this very beautiful Entertainment Weekly photo from the Feb. 11, 1994 article which you can read here.
And final big thanks to J.C. for this awesome autographed still from Mr. Jones!
09.19.04 - Ready for some rarely seen Lena pics?! I bought some great Swedish magazines (thanks Hans!) and here's the first batch of pics! These are from the Jan. 1994 issue of ManadsJournalen, and boy are they fabulous and sexy!
ETA - Huge thanks to Kakan for these great photo scans from the very recent Aftonbladet's Sondag cover story on Lena! And the article can be found here; here; and here;
09.15.04 - Huge thanks to Jinnie for more High Res pics! Enjoy the eye candy!
09.14.04 - Many thanks to J.C. for these very beautiful screencaps of Lena's behind the scenes interview from the Swedish dvd of United States of Leland! It's so unfair this wasn't included on the U.S. release.
09.13.04 - ETA - Enormous thanks to sammy for translating this awesome, long 1998 Lena interview with the Swedish magazine Cafe. It's SO good!
Many thanks to Kris for these terrific United States of Leland screencaps from the dvd!
09.11.04 - Major Big thanks to Kakan for finding and giving the heads up about this new Swedish magazine article, and big major thanks to sammy for scanning it for impatient your's truly! Here's a bit larger pic of Lena, Lasee, Tora and August! Cool! It says it's August - he kind of looks like Lasse's son Johan. Hmmmmm.
09.09.04 - Forgot to add this comment from the photographer, Raul Vega, who took the great cover shot:
Earlier in the day Lena played a tragic scene, but she really got into our session. I was impressed with her spirit. She's a real trouper.
I re-scanned the American Film cover, as well as scanning the Lena portions of the very long article inside. Here's part one & part two, & also this wonderful Masha description from the book. Hope y'all can see the text okay - I tried to scan it as big as I could. :-)
09.06.04 - I really love this Lena scan from a 1990 French promo card. Many thanks to J.C. for the photo, as well as the translation which had some nice things to say about Lena's career!
And another huge thanks to Jinnie for these great High-Res goodies! Enjoy Lena enjoying some award ceremonies and parties!
09.04.04 - How about some lovely screencaps of a very young Lena in that crazy 1978 Swedish movie Adventures of Picasso. Big, big thanks to J.C. for these rare caps!
09.02.04 - ETA: Huge, gigantic thanks to Kris for the gorgemous new image for the site!! *squee!* It's just so purty!
The wonderful sammy delivers yet another Swedish article, which included this lovely pic. Huge thanks to sammy for translating the pertinent parts:
Movie news:
Will be done in November with "Casanova" - after that no more movies scheduled before she'll work with Staho.
Rumours about her filming with Geoffrey Rush in "The piano tuner of earthquakes", is just that - a rumour. "it's a script I received a long time ago, but through the papers I have heard this rumour starting so perhaps I need to make some calls and see what's up with that…"
Regarding Alias
"I am really about to quit but it is almost difficult now. I play with the thought all the time about coming back and do some more episodes. Not this year, but perhaps later, she says."
There's more translations in the Forum!
09.01.04 - ETA #2: I'm in heaven, sheer heaven y'all! ThankYouThankYouThankYou to generous Jinnie for these exclusive To Die For high res photos from Lena's recent photoshoot!! OMG! *swoonthud*
ETA: sammy just continues to treat us with more articles and tidbits from Lena's recent media blitz in Sweden. Check out the Forum for even more goodies, including that Alias teaser from Lena herself.
On the question if she will return to "Alias" - "it's not impossible. When my agent negotiated with them they never really decided that I was going to quit so they haven't written me out of the plot yet, so you never know."
Hmmmmm...
Enormous thanks to sammy for the great translation of Svenska Dagbladet article! Not that Lena "owed" anyone an explantion about Alias but maybe now people will finally get it through their heads that it was never about money.
Great interview (three cellphones! hee!). Thanks again, sammy!
