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Barry Forshaw talks Bergman, Israel and Wallander with
Henning Mankell, Scandinavian crime innovator
A few days after Kenneth Branagh’s knighthood was announced,
I met Henning Mankell in an upmarket London hotel. Branagh is one of three
actors to have played the role of his hero policeman Kurt Wallander, to
varying degrees of acclaim. Mankell, when asked in interviews about which
of the three actors he prefers, has always been studiously diplomatic. Can
I finally draw him out?
“I don’t find it a difficult question when I’m asked
who I prefer,” says Mankell.
“I
am a theatre director. I spend a lot of time working with actors, so I see
the particular virtues of each… I’m always excited by the fact that they
are strikingly different
from
each other.”
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