Swedish actor Björn Andrésenknown worldwide for giving life to the teenager Tadzio in Death in Venice (1971), an adaptation of the book of the same name by Thomas Mann directed by Luchino Visconti, died on Saturday at the age of 70, reported filmmaker Kristian Petri, director of the documentary The most beautiful boy in the world (2021), to the Swedish newspaper Dayens Niheter.
At 15 years old, the former musician was hired by the director of The Leopard y The foreignerwhich I was looking for a perfect young man to play Tadzio, a teenager whose beauty obsesses Gustav von Aschenbach, a character played by the British Dirk Bogarde.
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As reported to the French Press Agency the co-director of the documentary The most beautiful boy in the world, Kristina Lindströmthe European actor died of cancer. “We found out from her daughter,” the agency wrote, quoting the filmmaker.
Although the image of perfect beauty that earned him the nickname that gives the documentary its title accompanied him throughout his life, the group’s also keyboardist Svens Eric He told how that experience plunged him into depression and drug addiction.
Coordinates of Björn Andrésen
Björn Andrésen was born on January 26, 1955 in StockholmSweden. Nothing was ever heard of his father and of his mother, Barbel Elisabeth Andrésenit is known that he committed suicide when the Swede was 10 years old, so he was raised by his grandparents.
At a very young age he gave life to that mythical character in Visconti’s adaptation of the novel by the German Mann; however, Andrésen did not keep pleasant memories. He repeatedly accused the Italian filmmaker of sexualizing him when he was very young and of uncomfortable experiences after the premiere.
The ravages meant that he would never again accept roles where he had to play homosexual charactersas he sought not to add to the rumors that since he was a teenager claimed that he was gay, something he always denied.
“I didn’t have any problems during filming. But once it was over, I felt like I was some kind of prey thrown to the wolves. Physically nothing happened to me, but it was still very unpleasant,” he said in an interview years later.
His last appearance on the big screen was immortalized in the folk-horror film Midsummer (2019), directed by Ari Asterwhere he gave life to the old Dan and shared credits with young stars such as Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, Isabelle Grill, William Jackson Harper, among others.
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