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Claes Bang in The New Look (2024) 1.03 | "Nothing But Blue Skies"

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Claes outraged in #stockholmbloodbath at fucking Swedish peasants. Obviously. 😂

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FUCKING SWEDISH PEASAAAAAAANTS!!!! 🤣

CLAES BANG as KING KRISTIAN Stockholm Bloodbath ‧ 2024

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CLAES BANG as FJOLNIR   The Northman (2022)| Dir. Robert Eggers ─ requested by @safarigirlsp .  

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CLAES BANG as FJOLNIR The Northman (2022) | Dir. Robert Eggers

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One more beautiful thing about Dracula is that he is the moon here.

Usually, in mythological and fairytale stories, a man is the sun and a woman is a moon. They are actually the parts of the one whole thing, the phenomenon of human nature, which is realized and became what it was supposed to be from the very beginning.

The man symbolizes power, bright light, and desire to go ahead and change the world. And the woman is a symbol of the inner world and its treasures and beauty. The woman normally is associated with love, tenderness, and soft light.

And what do we see in Dracula?

This man is not just a creature of the night (which could be enough to change the symbolic picture), but the one, who is connected with the moon, whose power goes from the dark, mysterious, and unknown part of reality. In some sense, we can say that he is the woman here. Well, the authors do not even try to hide it – in the first episode, Dracula bites Johnathan and makes him dream about his love, where he, Dracula, ‘plays’ Mina. The scene is repeated one more time with the sailor when Dracula makes the man think it is Dorabella.

More than that – we know that Dracula all over his long life wanted the one thing: to see the sun again. To meet ‘her’ and to be the witness to her power and beauty. Well, he did. He found her. He met the ‘man’ to his ‘woman’ and helped her to find the ‘woman’ to her ‘man’.

I love this.

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🤩 isn’t he just…

Christopher Lee in Port Afrique (1956)

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Claes Bang // Dracula

Dracula BBC - E02

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This video is incredible 👌🏻🔥

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Claes Bang photographed by Lis Kasper Bang ©

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Claes Bang Interview ‘The Square’ Your Morning 2017

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Claes Bang in a documentary about 'The Square'

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/089094-000-A/es-war-einmal-the-square/?fbclid=IwAR0OBJ6tUxkJLas8GPOZ7-3VhrFDS4QI3NMcGP8HV-Fco4jgpw-Fd_XdDdI

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You're turning me on

You're bringing me down

You're feeling me up

And you're pissing me off

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Claes as Fjölnir in The Northman: A Call to the Gods book

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Interview with Claes about “Bad Sisters”

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Dracula (2020)

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@stokerbramwell asked

So if Lee is 1 and Lugosi is 3, who’s 2 for you?

This is not gonna make me very popular 😂

Claes Bang from BBC’s Dracula (the 2020 miniseries)

A lot of it has to do with context, namely how I was feeling about non-Shadows vampires at the time. And that was… well, I was incredibly bored. Especially with Dracula. In the past decade, Luke Evans was.. well, he did the best he could, I won’t deny that. And Jonathan Rhys- let’s move on, shall we? 

So then along came Claes. And ta-da!! Dracula actually had a personality again!

He was very funny (ohh those dad jokes…), quite chaotic, and the show wasn’t afraid to make him look pretty dirty, too. 

I also did find him to be intimidating at times. But instead of being all macho-wacho death-metal-screaming, he was very calm and quiet. Almost soothing, actually. 

Not much else to say except Claes was a breath of fresh air (and definitely one of the saving graces of the final episode) and it looks like he started a new trend of letting Dracula actors give chaotic campy theatrical performances instead of the same old boring “i’m sexy cos I’ve got nice abs but no personality” shit. Thank all the gods above and below. 

So, all that is why he’s my second fave on-screen Dracula :D