Scan Magazine | Culture Feature | The Fourth and Final The Bridge
Swedish Sofia Helin (Saga Norén) and Danish Thure Lindhardt (Henrik Sabroe). Photo: Carlstrom Photography
The team behind The Bridge paid a visit to London. Left to right: Executive producer Anders Landström, producer Lars Blomgren, actress Sofia Helin, actor Thure Lindhardt, writer Hans Rosenfeldt and broadcaster Dr. Matthew Sweet.
later, you’re shooting in New York,” said the actor, who has played in several Hollywood films. “It’s changing the whole idea of how we perceive and see human beings, because the scripts are becoming so much better and are helping promote and show human beings of different race, sexuality and so on; I think it can change the world.” However, Swedish producer Lars Blomgren revealed that the ambition was initially not at all as big as such; the producers just wanted to get the show on Danish TV. “It seemed to us that while all the Danish shows were airing on primetime on Swedish TV, none of ours made it to Denmark. We thought, if we just create something that looks Danish, then we can at least get it onto Danish TV,” he said and added, laughing: “and then we just overshot the target a bit.”
What happens next? While the big finale was something everyone kept tight-lipped about, the
show’s writer, Hans Rosenfeldt, opened the lid a little on the process that brought the show to an end. “We wanted to give them [the characters] a good ending, the ending they deserved,” he said. “All the other seasons we wrote as a part of a series – we didn’t know if we would be commissioned again. But this time, we knew we could actually write an ending, and that was truly helpful.” Sadly, for those of us hoping that this might not, after all, be the very end, the producers agreed that it is “100 per cent sure” that it is. Hence, all there is left to do is savour every bit of it, and from what we heard, it is going to be more Nordic Noir than ever. “It’s very emotional; the first time I pitched it to my wife, I started crying,” admitted Blomgren. Time to get the tissues out. The fourth and final season of The Bridge starts on BBC Two on 11 May.
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