Thin Ice

I finally went into politics: in the Icelandic-Swedish series Thin Ice (Ísalög) I got to fight oil drilling in the Arctic as Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs at a meeting of the Arctic Council.

The story is set in Greenland, but it was mostly filmed in Stykkishólmur, and it was quite something to see the town transformed and hear sled dogs howling there in the evenings.

Although the politicians spent most of their time in a boring meeting while all the action happened out on the ice, it was great to meet colleagues from across the Nordic countries.