I’ve put up new layouts here on the main site and in the gallery! I’ve been slowly working on this for the past two weeks and I’m excited to finally apply it. I hope you all love it as much as I do.
Also, sorry for the delay on this, but I have finally added some posters, production stills, and promotional photos from Suicide Squad that I was able to collect the past week. Check them out!
Joel stars as Elliot Baker in indie thriller, Edge of Winter. It came out in select theaters last August 12th, and is currently available on demand and on iTunes. It’s definitely one of Joel’s best performances, so make sure you give it a watch! I have added high-resolution screencaps into the gallery. Just a heads up that there’s a few caps that shows animal cruelty.
Elliot Baker seizes the chance to develop a better relationship with his sons when his ex-wife, Karen, and her new husband take a vacation and leave the boys with him. What starts as a bonding opportunity turns into a nightmarish adventure when they get stranded in a deserted cabin near the lake as night falls and a snowstorm rages. Bradley, 15, and Caleb, 12, quickly learn more about their father and what they truly mean to him in this gripping tale of family and survival.
First of all, Joel is celebrating his 37th birthday today, and we would like to wish him a very happy birthday! We wish you all the best in life and in your career. Have an amazing day!
I wanted to have a gallery update in time for his birthday, so I have updated it with 696 high-resolution screencaps from Suicide Squad. Check them out!
Hey guys! I know this is way long overdue, but I finally had time to focus on working some gallery updates. You can now find additional high-quality stills and high-resolution screencaps from the first season of the critically-acclaimed AMC drama series, The Killing in our gallery! The show was based on the Danish television series, Forbrydelsen. The series starred Mireille Enos as Sarah Linden, and Joel as Stephen Holder.
In continuation of the gallery update on The Killing, you can now find additional high-quality stills and high-resolution screencaps from the second season. This season picked up right where the previous season left off and still follows the continued investigation into the murder of teenager Rosie Larsen.
Late posting, sorry, but Joel has graced the cover of last month’s issue of Scandinavian Traveler. Check out scans in our gallery!
Apologies for taking too long to continue the gallery update on The Killing. I have finally updated the gallery with high-quality promotional photos, lots of additional high-quality stills, and high-resolution screencaps from the show’s third season. AMC originally announced the show’s cancellation back in 2012 after two seasons, but then announced in January 2013 that the show would return for a third. This season follows the investigation on a string of murders that are connected to case previously handled by Sarah Linden.
Joel attended the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards yesterday, with his wife, Cleo. There is no doubt that Joel was one of the best-dressed of the night, looking dapper in that Ralph Lauren Purple Label suit and Christian Louboutin shoes! Check out 32 high-quality photos in our gallery.
So sorry for falling behind on the updates! Recently, Joel became a brand ambassador for the watches brand, Carl Edmond, and you can see his feature on the home page of their website. I have added some outtakes into the gallery!
“To me ‘Be bold, be you.’ represents a certain way of living that’s aligned with how I try to live my life. In short, I think the timepieces capture and reflect that particular essence. It was definitely something that intrigued me. Along with the design that breathes that same attitude. I’ve always worn watches. I love them. I mean they’re practical for obvious reasons but wearing a watch that looks and feels a certain way makes me reflect over the concept of time and how best to spend it. I think there are watches that say something about you; and watches that you can say something about.”
“Personalities and characters I encounter fascinate me. It’s my way of staying interested in my personal growth and exploring what it means to live life to the fullest, this is something I try to remind myself of. Being involved with a watch-brand like Carl Edmond feels very intuitive. Every time I put on my Carl Edmond it serves as a reminder to be here, alive ‘in the moment’ and available to life.”
Joel is featured in the November 15th issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine, wherein he talked about watches and mentioned his upcoming show, Altered Carbon. I have added scans and an outtake into the gallery!
Joel is celebrating his 38th birthday today, and we would like to greet him a very happy birthday! We wish you all the best and another year full of joy and blessings. Have a wonderful day! In celebration, I wanted to do an update on the gallery, besides the ones I fell behind on. I have just added 311 high-resolution screencaps from the 2012 film, Lola Versus, wherein Joel starred as Luke Wilton, alongside Greta Gerwig. Check them out!
Altered Carbon is featured in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine. I have added scans into the gallery!
The cast of Altered Carbon are currently on a press tour as part of the show’s promotion, from Korea to Joel’s home country, Sweden. As of this writing, I believe they’re in France. Check out some high-quality photos in our gallery!
Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman got jacked for the new Netflix show Altered Carbon. But his life nearly went in a drastically different direction.
Joel Kinnaman could’ve been a soldier. The Swedish military wanted him. Kinnaman, 38, grew up back in the days when all men in Sweden had to at least try out, and he was planning to tank on purpose. But, he recalls, “when we got out there, we had all these tests—conditioning tests, strength tests, leadership tests. My competitive spirit kicked in and completely removed any pacifistic tendencies.” He crushed the tests, got assigned to an 18-month tour of the north—way up by the Arctic Circle—and thought to himself: Fuck. What did I just do?
In the end, he wound up skipping the service. He tended bar for a while in Norway (not exactly a career) and then decided to give acting a shot. “I was a wild kid and had a lot of friends who were going in the wrong direction really fast,” Kinnaman says. “I didn’t graduate from high school because I was there only 40 percent of the time. So I didn’t have that many things that were pointing any good direction, and acting was the first thing I felt I might actually be good at.”
Kinnaman landed roles in a couple of small Swedish films, and then one in his homeland’s ultimate crossover entertainment product—The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. After that came Suicide Squad, House of Cards, and now his dystopian Netflix series. “Altered Carbon takes place 300 years in the future,” Kinnaman says. “We now have the technology to download the human consciousness into a chip that is fixed in the back of your neck—and that has led to bodies being interchangeable.” So interchangeable, in fact, that bodies are known simply as “sleeves.”
Kinnaman plays a kind of superwarrior trying to solve a murder (and committing a few himself along the way) in a jacked-up sleeve that’s intimidatingly huge—but not as huge as he’d like, if he had his choice in real life. “I’d take The Rock’s sleeve any day,” he says. “That would be fun—to be the biggest guy in the room.”
Altered Carbon is featured in next month’s issue of SFX Magazine. I have added scans into the gallery!
Joel is featured in the latest issue of Vanity Fair Italia magazine. Check out scans and outtakes in our gallery!
Joel’s episode on Watch What Happens Live aired yesterday. There are no clips from his interview yet, but you can check out our gallery for some high-quality photos of Joel arriving at and inside the studios!
Joel and Cleo attended the world premiere of Altered Carbon last night. There were also cool sets inspired by or from the show present at the event and the cast took photos with them, of course. Check out photos in our gallery!
The long wait is over. All 10 episodes of Altered Carbon are now available for streaming exclusively on Netflix. Let the binge-watch begin! Check out our gallery for additional high-quality stills from the first season.
Joel attended a press conference held for Altered Carbon last February 1st. Check out some gorgeous high-quality photos of Joel taken at the event in our gallery!
The March 2018 issue of Men’s Health USA is out now! I have added scans of Joel’s feature into the gallery.
Last year, Joel became as a brand ambassador for Carl Edmond. This year, the watches brand features Joel once again as they unveiled their new collection. There’s not a lot of photos this time, but I have added three high-quality ones in our gallery.
First off, Joel is celebrating his 39th birthday today, as we would like to wish him a very happy birthday! Grattis på födelsedagen! We wish you all the best, and we’re very excited about your projects coming out next year. Have a wonderful day!
In celebration, I prepared some long overdue updates. I have finally updated the gallery with high-resolution screencaps from the final season of The Killing, the show’s first and only season that aired on Netflix when the streaming service picked it up from yet another cancellation. This series ended in such a beautiful way. On that note, we’re looking forward to Joel and Mireille‘s reunion on Hanna.
Altered Carbon is featured in the Annual 2019 issue of SFX magazine, as one of the TV shows that have made this year one of the most exciting years for sci-fi and fantasy. Check out scans in our gallery!
The official poster of The Informer has been released along with the news of a new release date. Originally set for a March 2019 release, the film was pushed back to August 16th. Check out the poster and one additional still in our gallery!
MOVIEWEB – The Informer has received a new poster and release date. Instead of opening in theaters at the end of next month, the movie with now be released on August 16th. Aviron Pictures did not reveal the reasoning behind the decision.
The Informer is based on the novel Three Seconds by Borge Hellstrom and Anders Roslund and focuses on honorably discharged Special Ops soldier Pete Koslow (Joel Kinnaman) as his world is turned upside-down when he is jailed after a fight to protect his wife (Ana de Armas). He’s given a chance for early release by becoming an informant for the FBI (Rosamund Pike and Clive Owen) and using his covert skills in an operation to take down The General, the most powerful crime boss in New York. But when the FBI sting meant to finally earn Koslow his freedom results in the death of an undercover NYPD cop, Koslow finds himself caught in the crossfire between the mob and the FBI. Caught in a world of impossible choices, Pete Koslow knows he must return to prison, where he then formulates a plan to escape the clutches of three of New York City’s most powerful organizations, the mob, the NYPD and the FBI, in order to save himself and his family.
Joel looked pretty (as always) as he attended the premiere of Hanna in New York City yesterday with co-stars Mireille Enos, Esme Creed-Miles, and creator David Farr. Check out high-quality photos in our gallery!
Joel and Mireille recently sat down with Los Angeles Times to discuss Hanna. They talked about a lot of interesting things, including how the dynamic differs from what we were used to with The Killing, their characters, and the best of all, how they got cast! You can read the full article at the Los Angeles Times website, but here’s are some snippets:
“It’s super wonderful to be back working with each other,” Enos says at Amazon’s Culver City headquarters, where she and Kinnaman have come together to discuss the series. Kinnaman smiles and nods in agreement.
Playing adversaries instead of partners marks a dramatic shift for the two actors — one they have excitedly embraced.“It was a little trippy the first day we had shooting because the dynamic could not be more different,” Kinnaman says. “But after a couple of takes, it just flowed. We really work well together, and we pick up on little things each other does. I go this way a little bit, and she goes right there. It’s a little dance. It makes it so easy and fun.”
They both welcome the change in dynamics for “Hanna.”
“If we were playing two pals,” Enos says, “I don’t know if we could have done it.”
“I liked that it was so polar opposite,” Kinnaman adds. “Because we had such a good and long relationship on ‘The Killing,’ it was very important to both of us. ‘The Killing’ is one of those things that kinda stuck with people. There’s a danger of going back to the well.”
Enos was the first to be approached by Farr for the series. “We met at a spa hotel where she was shooting in England,” he says, “and I thought she would be perfect for the re-invention of the character.”
Enos says she was asked who she felt might be a good choice to play Erik. “In my mind, the character was a little older than Joel, so I told them to send me some of their favorite names of people in their mid-40s, ex-military.
“They got back to me and said, ‘Actually we were thinking of talking to Joel and wanted to see how you felt about that. I said, ‘Favorite human! On the planet!’ ”
Looking fondly at Enos, Kinnaman says, “Mireille basically cast me.”
Today’s the day! All eight episodes of Hanna are now available for streaming on Amazon Prime. Visit our gallery for high-resolution screencaps from the premiere episode!
Joel has graced the cover of this month’s issue of L’Uomo Vogue magazine. Check out the beautiful outtakes in our gallery!
On his political views: “I used to have a much clearer idea of where I stood on the political spectrum, but now I’m much more fluid. I’ve become much more of a centrist in many ways. I grew up in Sweden in a very strong state where there’s much more opportunity for people who come from the lower classes to do a class migration, and of course I see the structure of a Swedish society with higher taxes, free education, free healthcare and those things of course play into that but at the same time I look at the entrepreneurial spirit of the US and see real value in that too. In any society where you can look in someone’s mouth and see if they’re rich or poor, the society has failed them.”
On his go-to designers: “For red carpet, I like Dior, Ferragamo, Valentino, Brioni. For more casualwear I like ACNE, APC and Common Projects. I’m involved with a Swedish watch brand called Carl Edmond that I love. Watches are something I’ll splurge on as they feel timeless and are a solid investment piece.”
On his earliest memory of engaging in fashion: “Probably sneakers. I’ve always loved a great pair of sneakers and as boys running around on the playground and comparing your stuff. That was always a big topic of conversation.”
– Just Jared
Joel is in one of the covers for next month’s issue of Esquire España. Check out scans and outtakes in our gallery!
The cast of For All Mankind was at the New York Comic-Con last weekend for an exclusive sneak peek and panel session. Check out photos in our gallery, with thanks to my friend Mouza at Anthony Mackie Daily!
Joel attended the world premiere of For All Mankind last October 15th, and he looked absolutely dashing in pink. Check out high-quality photos in our gallery, with thanks to my friend Mouza at Anthony Mackie Daily!
Joel attended the Washington DC premiere of For All Mankind yesterday, and it’s no wonder why he always makes the best-dressed list. Check out photos in our gallery!
Sorry for the delay, I have updated the gallery with high-resolution screencaps from the first five episodes of For All Mankind! How are you all liking the show so far?
I know this is more than a year overdue, I have finally updated the gallery with high-resolution screencaps, along with stills and behind-the-scenes photos, from the first season of Hanna! The second season is now available to stream on Amazon Prime.
Firstly, Joel is celebrating his birthday today, and we would like to wish him a very happy birthday! Hope you’re staying safe and healthy, and that you have an amazing day. Grattis på födelsedagen!
I have updated the gallery with high-quality stills and high-resolution screencaps from the film, The Secrets We Keep, which came out in VOD last month. If you haven’t seen the film yet, I recommend you do!
P.S. If you’re on Instagram, follow us at @joelkinnamannet!
Joel is Sharp magazine’s final cover star of 2020! The Zoom interview delves a little into the characters that Joel has portrayed over the years. Check it out below, and outtakes in our gallery!
When Joel Kinnaman joins our Zoom call, I’m surprised to see a cloudless sky and shimmering ocean. He tells me that he and his best friend have recently decamped to Chicama, a small coastal town in northwestern Peru, for a holiday after wrapping production of the second season of his Apple TV+ show For All Mankind, which airs in January. “I’m in some kind of surfing paradise, and at the same time being consumed by the election and following that, biting my nails off,” he says, flipping the camera to show me the breathtaking view of the world’s longest wave.
This election represents a pivotal moment in American history. The agonizing process of counting votes in the days leading up to Biden’s win let our imaginations run wild about what the future holds. What does the future of democracy in America look like? How will this election shape the course of history? (Much to Kinnaman’s relief, two days after we speak, Joe Biden is voted president-elect and Kamala Harris, the first Black woman vice president–elect.)
These kinds of “what if” projections about the future are at the core of For All Mankind. The show presents an alternate history of the space race in which the Soviets beat the Americans to the moon. Kinnaman stars as Ed Baldwin, one of NASA’s top astronauts, who led the failed lunar mission, demoralizing NASA but inspiring the Americans to catch up, training women and women of colour — marginalized groups excluded from space exploration at the time — in the process. “The actual space race was kind of a depressing story,” says the Swedish–American actor. “It was like, we went to the moon and that was amazing, and then everyone was hoping and felt we were headed to outer space to continue human exploration, but then it just got dismantled.”
Kinnaman was drawn to the show’s intelligent writing and powerful storytelling. Each season jumps ahead in time, depicting the lasting political and cultural impact of life-changing events. “I thought it was just such a smart way of both telling that story, of leading up to that story, and then where we wanted it to go,” he adds. “It’s a way of telling a historic story with complete creative freedom for where it goes.”
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This isn’t a drill, we got a new shoot! Joel’s looking so good (as always) on the cover of the latest issue of GQ Hype. The interview was done through a Zoom call and it’s mostly focused on the upcoming The Suicide Squad. Check out the interview below and outtakes in our gallery!
BRITISH GQ – When Joel Kinnaman answers my Zoom call, he’s walking briskly through the streets of Venice Beach with his dog, Zoe, a rescue mutt from Mexico. He’s wearing a blue baseball cap and a T-shirt adorned with a baby picture of his fiancée, model Kelly Gale, the sleeves of which are just about obscuring a tattoo of the word “Skwad” on his bicep, which was administered on the set of the first Suicide Squad movie by Will Smith with Margot Robbie’s tattoo gun. (He does not regret it. “It’s a good story,” he says.)
He’s telling me about the play that saved his career. The sole reason he’s here today, promoting a different, better Suicide Squad movie – an unorthodox, quasi-sequel, quasi-reboot of the 2016 DC Comics film about a group of supervillains manipulated into fighting the good fight – is because of an obscure one-man show called Howie The Rookie by Irish writer Mark O’Rowe.
In his twenties, three years into a degree at Sweden’s most prestigious drama school, he began to experience debilitating stage fright. He would have panic attacks while on stage and vomit or black out before performances. “I thought maybe I don’t have the constitution to do this, maybe I can’t handle this pressure.” He resolved to overcome his problem through a sort of self-made exposure therapy. He would find the most terrifying stage performance for himself and do it over and over again just to prove to himself that he could. Enter, Howie. It was a gruelling, 90-minute piece, in which he would embody 16 different characters. “Everything hinged on this working and there was something in me that just would not let it fail.” He became obsessed with it and performed it over and over again in front of live audiences, slowly chipping away at his anxiety over time. After that, nothing would ever seem quite so daunting. “It became the foundation of a new kind of confidence that I had, or that I built with that.”
In many ways, that baptism of fire prepared him for much greater stresses he would deal with in his career, from playing the emotionally destroyed lead in a four-hour stage adaptation of Crime And Punishment in Gothenburg (his first proper gig out of acting school) to his first role in America in the beloved drama series The Killing and more recently shouldering the hopes of millions of comic book fanboys. Working on massive blockbusters – The Suicide Squad, he tells me, is the most expensive R-rated movie of all time – comes with its own very particular kind of anxiety. When you’re acutely aware that a shoot day costs £220,000, there’s a truly high-stakes need to perform, knowing that if you fudge your line or miss, you’re letting multiples of most people’s average wage slide down the drain. It can get a little tense. “There are so many moving parts and I don’t want to be the one that sucks.”
The Suicide Squad represents somewhat of a second chance for Kinnaman. Twenty sixteen’s Suicide Squad was considered a creative failure by most of those involved in its making. This time around, Guardians Of The Galaxy mastermind James Gunn takes over for original director David Ayer. Kinnaman reprises his role as military man and Suicide Squad leader Rick Flag, alongside fellow returnees Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn) and Viola Davis. Idris Elba and John Cena are subbed in for Will Smith and Jared Leto as co-leads.
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Joel attended the premiere of The Suicide Squad last night with his fiancee Kelly Gale. As usual, he looked dapper rocking that light suit at the red carpet! Check out photos in our gallery.
The Suicide Squad is out in theaters and on HBO Max today! Joel and Margot spoke to People Magazine to discuss the movie and their friendship.
The Suicide Squad costars Margot Robbie and Joel Kinnaman have been real-life pals since meeting on 2016’s Suicide Squad. But Sweden-born Kinnaman, 41, says he gained a whole new appreciation for Australian Robbie, 31, while filming their critically-acclaimed R-rated comic book-based movie.
“We had a couple of days when we were shooting these scenes, where we had massive rain towers [raining down on us],” Kinnaman, who plays military tactician Rick Flag in the films, tells PEOPLE. “For some reason these rain towers, [the water] is so cold. It’s so cold! And the rest of us, we get the rain on us, but we also have clothes on. And then we get a warm, cozy coat to put on in between. But because Margot [as Harley Quinn] is in full body paint, she’s just standing there taking it. And then she can’t wrap herself in anything. And you just see her, her whole body is just shivering, her teeth are clattering. And then, as soon as it’s, ‘Action,’ she’s on, and it’s on.
“And then you go back to in between [takes], and she’s shivering and clattering her teeth,” he continues. “She’s a savage. It makes a Swede very proud, someone that enjoys the cold. That’s why she is a little bit of an honorary Swede.”
Robbie jokes that she has a natural affinity for Kinnaman’s home country.
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“I think I always gravitate towards Swedish people. I just love the Swedes, so it didn’t take me long to gravitate towards Joel,” she says, adding that she did welcome a warm towel and shower after long days of filming.
