“I was very involved in the script, kind of giving each character a real back story, a real life, a real personality,” she said.

Rapace was intrigued by the inherent challenge of playing seven characters in a single film, but the opportunity to contribute her own ideas to the changes necessary to gender-swap the roles was what really excited her. When one of them (the eponymous Monday) goes missing, the remaining six are forced to crack the case, lest they end up going the way of their absent sibling. In Wirkola’s “What Happened to Monday?,” Rapace is tasked with playing seven sisters – each one assigned a day of the week (and a matching name) during which they’re allowed out of their apartment to live a fraction of a life. Her reaction? “I was terrified!” For a versatile actress like Rapace, first introduced to audiences through dark material like the original Swedish-language “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” films and Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus,” that’s saying something. The 25 Saddest TV Character Deaths of This Centuryįrom 'Nymphomaniac' to 'Little Ashes': Unsimulated Sex Scenes in 40 Films 'Chevalier' Writer Stefani Robinson Has Always Been an Overachiever - So Is the Subject of Her First Feature 'Beau Is Afraid' Ending Explained: Inside the Meta Twist of Ari Aster's Dark Comedy

“He called me up and he said, ‘Noomi, I think I’ve got something for us, but it’s seven brothers and I can’t imagine anyone else except you doing it, so if you want to do it, I want to change it to seven sisters,” Rapace said with a laugh during a recent interview. Wirkola was eager to change that, but only if Rapace was game. When Wirkola initially sent Rapace the script, “What Happened to Monday?” was still centered on seven brothers.

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