Alicia Vikander says she felt like an 'impostor' filming childbirth scenes before becoming a mother

Alicia Vikander has revealed she felt like an “imposter” when filming scenes in which she pretended to give birth before experiencing it in real life.

He tomb RaiderThe actress said she had given birth “four times on screen” before doing it herself.

“Our job is to pretend we're actors, but every time I had to give birth, I told every woman on set, 'I'm sorry,'” she said. She in an interview. “I felt like an impostor.”

He Ex Machina and The Danish Girl The star married fellow actor Michael Fassbender, 47, in 2017 and gave birth to their first child, a son, in 2021.

Vikander, 35, confirmed in the same interview that the couple had welcomed a second baby earlier this year.

“Every woman has a very different experience, and going through it a second time was definitely harder for me,” she said of giving birth.

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“But I think the training made it easier. Going through those nine months is like a marathon, so it helps if you feel strong before you start. It’s very physically demanding and I have great admiration for any woman who has done it.”

Despite being very reserved about her personal life, the Oscar winner said The Sunday Times in 2022 that she and Fassbender had gone through an “extreme and painful” miscarriage before becoming parents for the first time.

“We have a son now, but it took time,” she said.

“[The miscarriage] It was very extreme, painful to go through and of course it made me remember making that movie,” he added, referring to The light between the oceansfilm that the couple had starred in, in which the central couple suffers several miscarriages.

On finally becoming a mother, Vikander previously said People:“I now have a completely new understanding of life in general.

“It’s very beautiful and will obviously add a lot to any of my future work.”