had to sew 80 stitches in his head after «« close to death »-experience – Seher

“Millennium” star Michael Nyqvist revealed gory details of his dramatic accident to Fredrik Skavlan.

SEOGHØR.NO: The Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist (55) has been a household name in his home country for years.

But it was the role of Mikael Blomkvist in “Millennium” series, based on Stieg Larsson’s crime novels, which meant that he became known in Hollywood.

When he played in the action thriller “John Wick” (2014), with Keanu Reeves (51 ) in the title role, was the Swede, however, badly injured on the film set.

In this week ‘Skavlan “program tells Nyqvist about the dramatic experience.

– I cut up the head, so my ear was down here, he says according to Aftonbladet presenter Fredrik Skavlan – while pointing at his shoulder.

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movie star Michael Nyqvist in the role of white-collar terrorist Kurt Hendricks in action film “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” (2011). Photo: United International Pictures / Filmweb.no

has scars after 80 stitches

It was a stunt man who struck the “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” star, so he flew through the room, the newspaper said.

The ugly work accident meant that Michael Nyqvist had to take X-rays of the brain, and sew all 80 stitches in his head. Today he has a distinct scars that protrude from the roots going down the pan.

He has previously told the Aftonbladet that he was not ashamed of the scar.

– Now I see real tough out, actually. There is no trying put up a with me in town at the moment, he said laughingly to the newspaper in 2013.

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NOW AND THEN: The International Emmy Awards in 2011 had not Michael Nyqvist scar on his forehead. In 2015, after the work accident, was scarred however in place (right). Photo: NTB Scanpix

Feared For Life

Under “Skavlan” -Visit recalls the actress, who has two children with his wife Catharina Nyqvist Ehrnrooth (46), how the accident was an “out of body” -experience.

– I thought that I should not touch me, I sat there and it was as if my ears took in all appearance. Then I heard someone say: “We have to call his family.” And then it started to sway.

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FAMILY MAN: Michael Nyqvist has been married to his wife Catharina since 1990. Here are the two for a movie premiere in Stockholm with children Arthur and Ellen in 2007. In “John Wick» played Nyqvist against Hollywood star Keanu Reeves (right). Photo: NTB Scanpix / AP

Michael Nyqvist adding he disappeared out of consciousness for a moment.

– Yes, and then I came back. It was a “near death” -experience, of course, he tells Fredrik Skavlan according to Aftonbladet.

The whole interview with Michael Nyqvist refer to “Skavlan» NRK1 clock 21.25.

KNOW THE ROLE: Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace (left) was really first known when they played respectively the male and female lead in “Millennium” series and movies. Here in a scene from “Men who hate women” (2009). Photo: Mary Evans Picture

Also in 2013, when Nyqvist was topical in drama film “The Girl from Nagasaki” got actor an idea of ​​how fragile life can be. The time was the role of his character in the film suffered a stroke, and felt that his personality changed.

See Michael Nyqvist talk about the film, and the frightening of working with death as its theme, the video below :

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29 January 2016 – 2:31 p.m.