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Peter Stormare Reveals His Sweet Side in the Rom-Com Food and Romance
When picturing Peter Stormareaudiences might imagine the cold-blooded hitman of Fargo feeding Steve Buscemi into a wood chipper, or perhaps the angry wrench-wielding Russian cosmonaut in Armageddon (alongside a panicked Steve Buscemi), or even the nihilist who drops a ferret in a bathtub The Big Lebowski (again, with Steve Buscemi). Apart from apparently being Buscemi’s best wing man, the Swedish Stormare has become an iconic character actor especially known for his unsavory, often comically angry or intimidating characters. From his work as a Russian gangster in John Wick 2to the Viking vampire Godbrand in Castlevaniato play the devil himself in ConstantineStormare can be intense.
That’s why it’s so surprising to see him playing the love interest in a downward sweet romantic comedy, the new Swedish film Food and Romance. What’s even more incongruous is just how optimistic, kind, and ebullient Stormare himself is when talking about the film and his life. The 69-year-old actor (and creator of the hilarious little series Swedish Dicks) is inspiring enough to give motivational speaker Tony Robbins a run for his money, something which runs perfectly parallel to his new film. Food and Romance is, in many ways, an inspirational rom-com about how it’s never too late to pursue your dreams and chase after the love you want. Stormare spoke to MovieWeb about the film and how its themes relate to his own life.
Food and Romance is a Sweet Swedish Rom-Com
Food and Romance (also known as Tuesday Clubor Tisdagsklubben, in Swedish) follows Karin as she’s forced to evaluate her seemingly perfect bourgeois life. Karin had different plans for this life, though — “I dreamed of working with food, but then I got pregnant early,” she says. Despite being an excellent home cook, Karin never pursued her passion; it’s hard and time-consuming enough to be a professional chef, but growing that career as a woman with a family is extremely difficult. Decades later, though, and with a cheating husband and adult progeny, Karin decides to give herself a second chance at food and romance.
The film feels very knowledgeable about the experiences of women, having been written and directed by different women who focus much on Food and Romance on the nourishing female relationships Karin has. Stormare enters the scene as Henrik, the international chef who leads the highbrow cooking class (with a focus on Asian cuisine) that Karin and her friends join. Henrik initially seems like the kind of intense character Stormare has mastered, but as he falls in love with Karin, he’s gradually revealed to be a sweet, lonely man who ultimately doesn’t want to lose out on the new lease on love and life that Karin offers.
It was surprisingly organic for Stormare and Marie Richardson, who played Karin, to create a chemistry of kindness in Food and Romance. “It was pretty easy,” said Stormare, “because Marie, the lead actress, and I were from the same region up in northern Sweden, and I got into the acting academy in Stockholm, and she got in like two years after me. Of course, we became friends, being from the same area. This is like 100 years ago now, but I got into the National Theatre, and she got in too, and I vouched for her. Not only was she very beautiful, she was extremely talented.”
“We became friends, and we worked together,” continued Stormare. “Not much, but we did some things on stage, but then I left the National Theatre, but we stayed sort of friends. And she called me a couple of years ago and said, ‘There’s this project about three women and the love interest , Are you open?’ I said, ‘That sounds fantastic, Marie. You and I, playing lovers? Yes!'”
Peter Stormare Was the Perfect Fit for Food and Romance
The closer Stormare got to Food and Romance, the more he realized how compatible he was for the film, and not just because of his long friendship with Richardson. “I talked to the director, and she talked about the backstory of my character Henrik,” said Stormare. “She said that he’s been all over the world, but he was in Japan for a long time, and he really loves the Japanese. And I said, ‘I’m married to a Japanese woman. I worked in Japan.’ She hadn’t known that, so it was like all these circles were coming together.”
“I thought the character was lovely, a guy who is lost and finds love by the age of 65. Movies like this are done by Hollywood,” Stormare explained, “they’re all guys, and all the guys are doing a heist or robbing banks or something.They’re
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You want a water bottle that makes it easy to stay hydrated. So Consumer Reports looked at a lot of different bottles and a lot of different key factors, like whether a bottle leaked and how easy it was to clean and tote around. We also assessed how it handles drops and falls.
“Easy to clean” is relative—it could mean that the bottle is dishwasher-safe or that it just doesn’t have a lot of pieces with hard-to-reach areas.
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Take the 14-ounce CamelBak Eddy+, $15: It’s completely leakproof and spillproof, thanks to a straw piece that doesn’t detach. But that piece is a bit more challenging to clean.
If that’s a deal breaker, the budget-friendly 14-ounce Contigo Trekker Kids, $12 for a two-pack, strikes the right balance between kid-friendly and easy-to-clean.
If durability is your main concern, look no further than the Yeti Ramblers. Both the 12-ounce Rambler Jr., $25, and the 18-ounce Rambler, $30, are almost indestructible, keep drinks cold for more than 36 hours, and are super-easy to clean.
The Yeti is a pretty solid and heavy water bottle, so if you have smaller kids or you want something that’s really easy to tote around or take to the gym, you might want to consider something lighter.
For example, the 24-ounce Hydro Flask Wide Mouth With Straw Lid, $40, weighs less than a pound, keeps your water cold, and fits perfectly into most cup holders.
If ice-cold water isn’t a top priority, Consumer Reports says you can save some money and score the 26-ounce Sundried Water Bottle for $6. It has a silicone mouthpiece that’s easy to drink from and clean.
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Cincinnati restaurants hit by Facebook, Instagram social media hackers
Arnold’s Bar & Grill’s Facebook account was hacked over the weekend in what owner Chris Breeden says is a scheme that has targeted several Cincinnati small businesses.
According to Breeden, he received a notification Friday that someone in Los Angeles had logged into his personal Facebook account. Minutes later, he was alerted that an unknown user had accepted his friend request.
“I went in and unfriended that person and removed everyone that was logged in,” he said.
Breeden also changed his password. However, the user was added back as a friend, and the next morning, Breeden was locked out of his personal Facebook account, Instagram and the Arnold’s Bar & Grill business page for violating Facebook’s terms of service.
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The small business owner says two of his credit cards, which were linked to Facebook to pay for Arnold’s Bar & Grill advertising, were charged a total of $2,800. Two of four fraudulent charges were flagged by his bank before going through, and he was reimbursed for the other two.
As of Tuesday, the Downtown bar’s Facebook page is visible online, but Breeden says he can’t log into it. The Arnold’s Bar & Grill account on Instagram, which is owned by the Facebook parent company Meta, has been taken down.
Multiple Cincinnati restaurants have been targeted
Breeden believes what happened to him is part of a hacking scheme that has hit multiple small businesses around the country. Hackers can gain access to a user’s Facebook account, add themselves as an administrator for their business page and make purchases with linked credit cards or PayPal accounts, according to a Reddit page dedicated to the issue. The hackers quickly block users from regaining entry to their accounts by posting explicit or copyrighted content, getting the page taken down by Facebook.
Crown Restaurant Group, which owns Losanti, Crown Republic Gastropub, Crown Cantina and Rosie’s Italian, experienced similar hacking issues in October.
Hayley Sitek, the group’s co-owner and social media manager, said she was notified on Oct. 18 that one of the restaurants’ posts had violated Facebook’s terms of service. After contesting the ban, her personal Facebook account was hacked, and she was locked out of all four restaurants’ Instagram profiles.
“You merge these accounts together and it’s advertised to make your life easier, but as soon as you connect them, they can take you down,” she told The Enquirer.
The restaurants’ Facebook pages were able to remain active because they had an administrator besides Sitek who could still access them, he said. Sitek didn’t save any credit card information to the business pages because he managed multiple accounts, so no fraudulent charges were made.
However, the restaurants’ Instagram pages and Sitek’s personal accounts were permanently removed, but she was able to create new pages for the businesses last week following a 30-day ban.
Breeden said he has connected with 10 local businesses, including Crown Restaurant Group’s, that have been targeted, seven of which were hacked within the past two months.
One business, bar and music venue the Belle & the Bear, said in a post it was forced to create new Facebook and Instagram pages after being hacked in September. Breeden also said Via Vite, which is owned by Cristian Pietoso, was affected by a hack. Via Vite, as well as Forno Osteria & Bar, one of Pietoso’s other establishments, began inexplicably posting out-of-place movie clips on Facebook in the past few weeks.
The Enquirer has reached out to Pietoso and other restaurant owners who might have been affected but did not hear back.
For small business owners, losing access to social media is “instantly crippling,” Breeden said, especially amidst the holiday season.
“We have a large Facebook presence that I’ve been working for over a decade to build,” he said. “We have our holiday show that we are doing with OTRimprov coming up, and I have no way to promote it.”
Breeden has begun Facebook’s appeal process to regain access to his account. He plans to contact the Cincinnati City Council and Ohio attorney general with a list of local businesses that have been targeted.
The Enquirer will continue updating this story as we get more information.