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Joel Kinnaman

Swedish-American actor88 QUOTES

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Joel Kinnaman is a Swedish-American actor. He first drew attention for the 2010 Swedish film Easy Money and the Johan Falk crime series. He later became widely known for television roles as Detective Stephen Holder in The Killing, Takeshi Kovacs in the first season of Altered Carbon, and Governor Will Conway in House of Cards. He also appeared as Alex Murphy in the 2014 RoboCop remake and as Rick Flag in Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad. From 2019 to 2026, he starred as NASA astronaut Ed Baldwin in For All Mankind.

“When I first heard 'Robocop' was going to be remade. I said, 'Yeah, that's interesting. I'll probably watch that at some point, but I'm not interested at all to be in it.'”

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“An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.”

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“I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.”

OPERA

“I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.”

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“I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.”

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“A lot of the friends I had went on to become criminals.”

FRIENDSHIP

“I've followed Gary Oldman his whole career... I've watched the movies he's directed, like 'Nil by Mouth' - I've seen that five times!”

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“I think for a lot of people that had seen me do 'Snabba Cash', after watching 'The Killing,' I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.”

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