Alicia Vikander On Speaking Japanese in 'Earthquake Bird': 'It Was A Lot Of Work'

Alicia Vikander is gorgeous a she steps out in a blue gown for the opening ceremony of the 2019 Tokyo International Film Festival held at Roppongi Hills on Monday (October 28) in Tokyo, Japan.

The 31-year-old Oscar-winning actress was joined at the event by her Earthquake Bird co-star Naoki Kobayashi, as well as writer and director Wash Westmoreland.

In the film, Alicia performs in English as well as Japanese: “I wish I could tell you that I knew Japanese and I learned it in three months,” she told Reuters at the premiere. “I mean I did an immense amount of work to be able to do the Japanese… and being bilingual I know you can’t just mimic words and sounds, you need to really know what you’re saying.”

“So I did everything from reading my scenes out loud in English and then we kind of reworked on translating them to really get the kind of sensitivity and the emotion and the subtext that I had in my acting, hopefully… It was a lot of work,” Alicia concluded.

Earthquake Bird is a new Netflix movie that will be released in theaters on November 1 and on the streaming service on November 15 – Watch the trailer here!

FYI: Alicia Vikander is wearing Louis Vuitton.