GERALD
MOHR
LIDINGÖ 2009 Contd.
Christina Schollin
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The day dawned wet - in fact, very wet. It rained solidly during Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and it was cold, to boot. The Swedes I spoke to said they could not recall such poor weather in June. However, I did not let that stop me! I had arranged a lunch at Hässelby Slott in order to bring together performers and production staff who had worked on “Private Entrance” and had invited Bert Sundberg, Pontus Gustafsson, Christina (who was unable to attend) and newspaperman Joachim Björk. In the event I received a phone call that morning from a friend of Bert Sundberg’s in Stockholm to give his apologies, as he was unable to travel owing to a personal commitment and the atrocious weather down south. Joachim very kindly picked me and my companions up at our hotel and drove us out to Hässelby Slott, which is also an hotel, for lunch at 12.30 p.m. Pontus was waiting for us in front of the “Private Entrance” and we met. He is a professional actor working with Dramaten, the Swedish National Theatre in Östermalm, Stockholm, and had just returned from a tour of Russia. Like Christina, Pontus could not recall much about working on “Private Entrance”, except that his part of the location shoot took four days and, on noticing that the
LUNCH AT HÄSSELBY SLOTT, SATURDAY 13 JUNE
