I guess I wrote 170 pages – and then I just collapsed. “I had to do two movies parallel to the writing of the book, and then a TV show too”, he says, “I thought I could manage, no problem. It’s with this mentally exhausted character that Sveistrup identifies. The Chestnut Man, which he hopes will become a series of books and a TV series (discussions are ongoing), introduces young Copenhagen detective Naia Thulin, and her new partner, Mark Hess, a burned-out investigator who’s just been kicked out of Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. Then, I wrote a few movies and I realised I missed just being me, not depending on actors and producers and directors.” Raising the white flag Since The Killing I’ve had many invitations to write from publishers, which I turned down. “Twenty years later I guess I had enough experience and self-confidence and I wanted to try and write a novel again. I realised you could also write for the movies too, so I went to the film school. “It felt so lonely and so complicated and every day I just went down to the video store instead and rented Tarantino and Dirty Harry.
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