I applied for the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Sweden twice. I got to the last round for two years and did not get in. It feels like you're on Idol or something, to have to go in and perform those auditions. That's why I applied to law school, because I thought that was maybe my only way forward, especially in the small country of Sweden. But theater was definitely my aim from the beginning.

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