Seven Sisters: the underside of a particular shoot for Nooomi Rapace

This Monday, January 23, 2023 at 9:10 p.m., M6 is broadcasting Seven Sisters, a science fiction film where Noomi Rapace plays seven different characters. But how did the Swedish actress achieve this feat? Tele-Leisure explains to you.

2073. The Earth is overpopulated. The government decides to institute a one-child policy, enforced with an iron fist by the Birth Allowance Office. Confronted with the birth of septuplets, Terrence Settman decides to keep the existence of his 7 little girls a secret. Confined to their apartment, each named after a different day of the week, they will have to share a unique identity on the outside, simulating the existence of a single person: Karen Settman. If the secret remains intact for years, everything collapses the day Monday mysteriously disappears… This intriguing scenario is at the origin of the success of Seven Sisters (1.8 million admissions in France). However, the film Tommy Wirkola did not have the honors of a theatrical release in the United States and was directly broadcast on Netflix in August 2017. At the same time, this anticipation film without downtime was released in cinemas in France. It is broadcast this Monday, January 23, 2023 at 9:10 p.m. on M6.

Noomi Rapace, seven times heroine in Seven Sisters

The other strong point of the film is obviously its main actress, Noomi Raptor. If this role of multiple composition is a challenge, it is also and above all a chance for the actress to Millennium (role then taken over by Ronney Mara) to reveal the full extent of his talent. To give the illusion that she is playing all the characters at the same time, the swedish actress was duplicated by computer. On set, she was actually acting as understudy. It was the technical dimension of the filming that posed the most difficulties for Noomi Rapace (her ex-husband plays in a Netflix series). The actress remembers: “If we shoot a scene with doubles, I have to show them beforehand what I plan to do. I have to give them instructions, show them how they should move, how to sit down and when to get up. I have an overview of the scene. I have to look at it from different angles and that’s a lot of responsibility. Tommy and I, we constantly tell ourselves that we must not let the technical aspect take over. In the end, it is the relationship between the shearts who matters most.” In view of the result, we can say that Noomi Rapace has indeed succeeded in the feat of embodying the seven sisters with different personalities.