This was how Swedish actress Noomi Rapace pitched her team on doing a new movie called “Lamb”: “OK, I'm going to do this very small Icelandic film with a first-time director. There's no money and ...

Noomi Rapace had no time to be sheepish on the set of Lamb. On her first day of filming A24's Icelandic horror-drama, she found herself in a barn helping deliver a baby lamb live on camera. "I didn't ...

The actor, who grew up on a farm, was well prepared for the duties required for the startling supernatural drama from A24. By Brian Davids Writer “I delivered baby lambs, yes. My hands went inside the ...

Noomi Rapace was sitting waiting for “the knock” on her trailer door, a sign that a mother sheep was ready to deliver a baby. She had just traveled hours to a small Icelandic village to film a movie ...

Splicing the dark heart of a folk-horror movie into the fluffy body of a rural Icelandic relationship drama yields unexpectedly fertile and darkly comic effects in Valdimir Jóhannsson’s ...

Noomi Rapace: actor, artist, mother of lambs. That’s how the 41-year-old Swedish actor will be known from now on (at least to me). “Growing up in Iceland, you're very aware of — my grandmother always ...

As Kristen Wiig once sang during a Björk impression on SNL, “Welcome Iceland, there is no sunlight. You are on fire, a demon taaakes your faaaaace…” Which is to say, there is an uncanny quality to the ...

Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snaer Gudnason star as a childless couple discovering a mysterious newborn in this supernatural folktale from first-time director Valdimar Jóhannsson. By Scott Roxborough ...

Hot on the heels of Pig being held out as Nic Cage’s most critically acclaimed movie (which is saying something, after the Coen Brothers and the whole Oscar thing, etc.) of all time, A24 (which also ...

A version of this story about Noomi Rapace in “Lamb” first appeared in the International issue of TheWrap magazine. Noomi Rapace was sitting waiting for “the knock” on her trailer door, a sign that a ...