I'm a huge fan of her work on Borgen and her bit part in the epic (and weird) 1864. I'm glad to see she's getting some American work (besides—ugh—Inferno).

It really freaked me out to hear her speaking in English with a (mostly) non-Danish accent. I don't think that smoking means "bad guy" here, but rather "I have a high stress job." I think it was also supposed to be an age thing to contrast her with the writer/director character (whose name I cannot be bothered to…