• Othman Karim’s movie “Dear Alice” has become a hit with both movie goers and critics. Tuva Novotny and Peter Gardiner plays the couple who are fighting with themselves and against social norms.
• They are doing the same in reality.

This year, Tuva Novotny’s career has been spiced with Hollywood glitter. In private Tuva Novotny’s life is not very glamorous.
- I can not stand Sex and the City, says the actress.

She is wearing a checkered shirt, horse t-shirt and jeans. Tuva Novotny, 30, points out how she is dressed to the question of how glamorous her life is now. It’s a press conference for the film “Dear Alice” where she plays Karin Said, a lawyer, mother of two and wife to Moses.

Seemed stereotype
- The role seemed to be a stereotypical female role, mother of two in a mid-career, how will she get it together? But it turns out that her problem is something completely different, it’s about her husband and his cultural roots, says Tuva Novotny to Aftonbladet.
The film deals with strong subjects, xenophobia, sexism and social class. Important issues according to Tuva Novotny.
- The film spoke so clearly to me and everyone around me regardless of color, form, or sex. It is important not to diminish the subjects here in Sweden where we are so afraid to take up important topics.

Playing against Julia Roberts
This fall, the movie “Eat, Pray, Love”  has Swedish première. Julia Roberts plays the leading role, Tuva Novotny has a big supporting role. And even if “Dear Alice” also has its Hollywood glitter with “Lethal Weapon”-star Danny Glover as one of the actors, Tuva’s life is still not very glamorous.
- I get really stressed out by things like that. I can not stand “Sex and the City”‘, I’m not near these girls because Hollywood has shaped glamorous life in that way. I can not identify with it at all.

“Hard job”
Instead, she asserts that it takes hard work to succeed. Not red carpets.
- I’m trying to say to all that talk about appearing in the right context, that it’s about to do a good job instead, in all contexts. It’s the most important thing. But with the Internet’s openness, it has become a sort of distorted picture in relation to performance and publicity, “if you are exposed, then you exist”. It’s not the way it is.