He wears a suit by HOPE and a T-shirt by JEANERICA.
Fares Fares
- Words Liv Lewitschnik
- Photography Alixe Lay
- Styling Anna Sundelin
After almost 25 years, the master actor steps behind the camera.
Fares Fares leans back on the sofa at his wife Clara Hallencreutz’s art studio. We’re in Stockholm, where the warmth and light of early summer have hit with full force and the city is heaving with people out enjoying it all.
The Swedish actor has recently wrapped shooting on A Day and a Half, his directorial debut due to premiere this fall, and he’s clearly proud of the work. “Acting is fascinating, but with directing I get to tell the story my way,” he says.
Fares became a name in Sweden after starring as Roro, a park cleaner whose parents want to marry him off, in the 2000 movie Jalla! Jalla!—a low-budget production shot by his brother, Josef. They cowrote the movie over the course of a couple of weeks with their friend Torkel Petersson, who also stars in it. It became a...
