Borg actor - 'I'd never played tennis in my life'
Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason poses during a photo session
Stockholm - Egypt Today
Icelandic actor Sverrir Gudnason who plays opposite Hollywood star Shia LaBeouf in the newly released Borg-McEnroe movie admits he had never played tennis before landing the role as the 1980s Swedish icon. The youthful looking 39-year-old Gudnason was born in Sweden but grew up in Iceland, and bears a striking resemblance to Borg, whose cool personality contrasted to the fieriness of his on-court rival John McEnroe. "I had never seen a whole tennis game before all this," Gudnason told AFP in an interview. "I had never even been on a tennis court in my life and (for the film) I didn't just learn to play tennis, I learned to play tennis like Bjorn Borg." The actor said he had almost turned the role down because he had never played the game
Source: AFP
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