Bridging cultures all over the world When it comes to cultural collaborations, few have had the resounding success of the Danish/Swedish TV-series The Bridge. Celebrating the BBC’s forthcoming release of the show’s fourth season, the team behind the drama paid a visit to London to talk about cultural differences, how TV can make the world a better place and where the final season might leave the two protagonists (no spoilers). By Signe Hansen
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Noir enthusiasts. With Swedish Sofia Helin (Saga Norén) and Danish Thure Lindhardt (Henrik Sabroe) among the guests, the discussion quickly turned
to the challenges and lessons learnt from the Danish/Swedish collaboration. “We learned that we’re all humans; it doesn’t matter if we’re from Denmark or Sweden,” Helin enthused smilingly, showing everyone that Saga is very much the result of great acting and writing rather than a natural part of Helin’s own open-hearted persona. Lindhardt had a slightly different take and dryly joked: “Yes, I think it’s only 600 words that are actually different between Danish