Alicia Vikander explains crazy plans for Oscar
Tomb Raider star Alicia Vikander was emotionally breathless when she won best supporting actress for her role in The Danish Girl in March 2016.
Almost two years later, Vikander is just getting around to bringing her precious golden statute back to her Lisbon, Portugal, home (which she shares with husband Michael Fassbender). And it just might be going in the guest bathroom. As a cover for her toilet brush.
As Vikander explained, she’s noodling with her plans to make the Oscar the glitzy cover of her guest-bathroom toilet brush.
“I heard Kate Winselt had it in the loo,” she laughingly said. “And I also like when things are practical. The loo idea is really good. And I have this guest bathroom. And with the shape of [the Oscar] and the bottom, it would be the perfect cap of my toilet brush. What if you had to lift that? That would be funny. And people would use it. Good.”
Just to be sure, we pressed her on this idea when we saw her again. She was still on the toilet brush cover idea.
“That’s what I remembered [after I won the Oscar] the one night when I had him. Everyone wants to hold him,” Vikander said smiling. “So I thought about making it into the toilet brush. That would be really cool.”
She worked through what it would be like walking to the local hardware story with her Oscar.
“It would be funny going to the store and to be like, ‘I have this idea’,” Vikander said, giggling. “I wondered if you could ... well, I want to put the brush underneath it.”
So where has the Oscar been for two years?
Vikander has been filming around the world and the Oscar was too heavy to carry around on international flights. So she left it with a friend’s daughter in Los Angeles.
Even when Vikander returned to the Oscars in 2017 to present the best supporting actor award, she jetted into Los Angeles and right back to the Tomb Raider set in South Africa. Not a good place for Oscar.
But this trip looks to be the one when she brings it home. And her friend’s daughter has kept her up to date on Oscar’s LA life.
“She has been sending me [photo] updates,” said Vikander. “I hope he’s having a good time.”
But seriously, dealing with where to place an Oscar is “surreal”. Vikander, 29, admitted she has a little block when it comes to receiving the great honour.
“These awards,” said Vikander, speaking low. “I’m still quite young. It was so surreal and the most beautiful memory I’ll have in my life. I almost find it surreal that it’s actually physical. Because art is constantly moving ... I’m trying to find words. I’m not downplaying it. But it’s a tap on the shoulder saying you’re going the right way. But I’m still on the beginning of my journey.”