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Vikings Star Frida Gustavsson Talks Fighting While Playing Pregnant
Warning: This nonfiction contains spoilers for Vikings: Valhalla season two.
Only 1 warrior could look victorious on Vikings: Valhalla.
And that's precisely what happened in the play 2 finale of the Netflix drama, which saw an epic faceoff betwixt Freydís (Frida Gustavsson), a shield-maiden dedicated to protecting the Pagan faith, and Olaf (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson), a devout Christian determined to whip retired the aged ways.
While immoderate viewers may've assumed that the brutish Olaf would yet beryllium victorious, Freydís proved that she was arsenic fierce arsenic she was smart, eliminating some Olaf's service by occurrence and demolishing him successful one-on-one combat.
The last conflict was epic and bloody and, according to Gustavsson, took rather a spot of signifier to propulsion off. "We wanted to marque it the biggest happening we perchance could," she exclusively told E! News. "We spent months moving connected that fight."
Gustavsson credits "genius" creator Jeb Stuart for creating an ending that topped play one's fierce battle. "The ending of play one, I thought it was conscionable truthful big. So action-packed," she said. "And [Stuart] did it again. Better. Bigger. And I deliberation the eventual showdown of Freydís and Olaf is conscionable truthful fantastic."
As for erstwhile viewers tin expect much of Vikings: Valhalla? Gustavsson confirmed that accumulation for play 3 has already wrapped.
"We've already changeable it, and it's incredible," she shared. "It's truthful good. And I conscionable can't hold for the satellite to spot it. But you're gonna person to hold a small spot longer."
Netflix
For now, each of play 2 of Vikings: Valhalla—which besides stars Sam Corlett and Leo Suter—is disposable to watercourse connected Netflix.
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