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It was with one of our more well-known actors. I haven't really ever heard of the guy before, so I have to take the article's word for it. Ah, but I digress... 
The man in the interview told of how he'd grown up in a rough suburb outside of Stockholm, lots of drugs, lots of crime. As a school kid, he himself drank himself drunk on beer every day. Many of his friends became substance abusers but for some reason he never tried it.
Anyway, he made his way out of that place and became an actor. He'd had to become tough to manage during his childhood years, so he got many 'tough guy' parts, and became well-known for those and was kind of typecast in that genre. The interview appeared in the paper because our state TV showed a movie of his where he does NOT play a tough guy. He says in the interview it's the one he's most proud of.
This time, he plays the part of a somewhat clumsy and backwards undertaker in a small rural town, some time in the late fifties or maybe early sixties. He's not very higly regarded and thought as a bit of an oddball. Actually, the movie's not about him at all. It's about two young kids, a boy and a girl. They're orphans, living with separate foster parents. I missed the start of the movie, so I'm not sure what happens initially. By the time I started watching, the girl was already making moves on the boy, and the undertaker, whom they lived with as 'summer kids' was kind of grouchy and not very kind even though he didn't really MEAN to be mean.
Of course, as they do in these kind of family movies, the affections of the kids grow, as does their affection for the grumpy temporary stepfather (whom initially sees them as little more as cheap labor to fix things around his house). They conspire to set him up on a date with their school teacher. They get both grown-ups to think the other fancies them - which is true except both are too shy to admit it.
Affection transforms to love. The kids tattoo their names on their arms just so they won't forget about each other once the summer is over and they have to go back where they live, after they were in a minor accident and had to go to the hospital. Soon however the authorities are involved after the boy and girl are found together in the same hospital bed (though not naked of course; it's a nice kind of movie). It's decided the children are to be sent back to their regular foster parents, so therefore the boy and girl run away instead.
They end up trapped on a factory roof and threaten to jump off the edge if they aren't allowed to be adopted by the (now considerably less grumpy) undertaker and his to-be bride the schoolteacher. Of course, the government official lies to them when he says that's okay, and once both are safely back on the ground orders the kids to be seized by the police and forcibly returned, each in a separate car.
The kids break themselves free and run up to each other, declaring their mutual love and hugs intensely, not wanting to leave the other. The chastised undertaker tries to tell them (again) they'll get over each other, and that they shouldn't expect too much from life because they'll only get disappointed (a lesson the undertaker had learned well, until the kids brought him together with the school teacher), but of course they both refuse to listen. He tells them they were the best summer kids he ever had. Then they get dragged off into those cars, and they start driving off.
But that simply CANNOT be the end of that movie! The undertaker gets really angry and runs up to the front police car as it's starting to roll away.
He tears the passenger door open and grabs the kid, then pushes away the policemen, swearing at them as he goes to get the other kid.
The last lines in that movie are these (to one of the policemen), just before he takes both kids, one on either side, and starts walking away:
"I never liked you! I'm going to bury you alive! You can go to hell."
The school teacher then hurries joins the trio as they walk down the long, dusty gravel road between two wheat fields or something like that, and the end credits starts to roll as they keep on walking...
-L
PS: Why I'm telling you of this? Well, I just wanted to.
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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I read an interview in the paper the other day... 
