Stockholm-based Actor and Comedian Alexander Salzberger is most definitely a 2FACED1, we came to understand that he currently is practicing the art of dressing down but can't really deny his hipser love. But the trip to the theaters started as a little rascal.

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BY: DECIDA

- Small things can change full impressions, like this James Brown plate mixed with the Dr Martens… on Me!

 
No, we’re lying. Sorry. Alexander Salzberger is not a 2faced mutha, he’s actually more likely suffering from a multiple personality disorder if we're going down that lane. I’m referring to him as an actor and comédie, a young man whose official breakthrough came after a cocky drop out of Stockholm Academy Of Dramatic Arts and then creating an one-man-show at Södra Teatern in Stockholm in 2007, “Måsarna skrattar sig hesa”.

In this case one-man-show means loads of characters, some of a kind that never had entered the Swedish theatre scene before, and certainly not in the same play. Alex portrayed HILARIOUS individuals out of our contemporary context with the razor sharp precision of a man that has entered many different worlds despite a young age.

Childhood started off in maybe-too-small-to-call-town-town: Åmål, yes that  FUCKING ÅMÅL , but as a nine year old Alexander moved with single Swedish mother to Stockholm suburb Vällingby where he got a jewish Salzberger added to his identity via a step-father.But the kids in the hoods, ironically, referred to Alex as " THAT MOROCCAN "- thank's to the never-present Moroccan father... Not home, neither amongst friends did Alexander have the possibility to pick upthat REAL necessary knowledge you need to even spark a thought on a future in HIGH CULTURE surroundings.We're talking essential codes... CULTURAL CAPITAL ...

Well , Alexander Salzberger, 16 years old, happened to get a minor part in a movie when director Daniel Fridell scouted  for real live characters in the suburbs. By a whim he applied for acting school after highschool and made it through. The world as this 16 year old knew it was divided into two: DOWN TOWN vs SUBURBS , rich kid vs suburbia kid, with no more variables on the scale.  

So Down Town was where he‘d be strolling at, bratified was the style to go. Before our young A arrived to his new classroom dressed up in his borrowed Down Town uniform;  CANADA GOOSE vest -something you actually could get robbed off during this time- and a pink shirt, he never really thought about the Art of Dressing Down and certainly not wearing  Keffiyeh Scarfs to class for any so called conscious reasons  

 Despite the fact that he, clothing wise, totally miscalculated the first day of school the adaptive Young Salzie took his first babysteps into an acting career and heading for Alexander describes his current context:

 -The Swedish theatre scene is actually really non-fashionable and non-glamorous, there is definitely a less positive view on fashion, the so called “natural” – non-styled look is stringly dominating, and I would say some actors tend to look straight up shabby - and get away with it!  Probably a reaction of the never ending hunt for realness…

Alexander Salzberger says he wish Swedish people in general would DARE MORE, exactly like his second character does, but it’s a thin line… .    

- I want to be highly deliberate but not looking like that, so a fear is something of the opposite, too obvious, looking anxious and soulless, adapting too much from everywhere, too fast, like you don’t really have a clue but still are trying hard to. If I would step up the actor environment like my second character here with 100 % matching stuff, people would seriously think something was extremely wrong.
- The other perspective comes from me being a DJ with a monthly SOUL Club running. Image in the music biz is totally different, and these two worlds both infect the identity. I'm all this but still the kid from the suburbs, hope I’m allowed to be ALL that!

What you don't know is that Alexander went through a period as an extreme INDIE POP kid, imagine the biggest BRODER DANIEL-fan you can think of, really hardcore in style, BLACK KAJAL and STARS due to the fact he was not looking as Swedish and middle class as the random BD- fan!  

-When people really can’t judge by the cover it’s positive, I want to mess with their brains, but sometimes you mess with your own head; I was visiting Malmoe and stopped by the HiFi-store Bang Olofsen to check out some exclusive headphones I’d read about. This certain day I felt particularly fly, I had a smooth vintage selection of clothing with a very tight fit, the look of modest matching, but really deliberate from my point of view. Stepping into the store it suddenly came over me; these people will not understand my style. They might think I'm a newly arrived refugee wearing inherited clothes with no money to spend, I'm thinking this while I'm hearing “I’ll take them” coming out of my mouth in a extremely snobby Stockholm accent. A stupid idea rising from nowhere had me actually buy that pair of shit expensive headphones just because I  saw myself through other peoples eyes…thinking I knew what they were thinking! 

Now you understand the divided persona of Alexander Salzberger slightly better, but who is our next 2FACED1 and what issues will they have to dwell on?! STAY TUNED!