While, for example, “Ronja rövardotter” and “Emil i Lönneberga” are films, from 1984 and 1971 respectively, which are based on Astrid Lindgren’s books came the TV series “Vi på Saltkråkan” and later the feature film before the book with the same name.
And in TV4’s documentary series “Astrid Lindgren’s beloved films”, the television audience gets to share stories from the creation of, among other things, “Vi på Saltkråkan”.
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The documentary series features several of the actors who played some of the now iconic roles, including Louise Edlind Friberg who played Malin and Kristina Jämtmark who played Stina.
Another actor who appears in the TV4 series is Stephen Lindholm who shouldered the role of the boy Pelle.
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Stephen Lindholm, who played Pelle in “Vi på Saltkråkan”, in the middle. Photo: Screenshot/TV4/Astrid Lindgren’s beloved films
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But how is life for Stephen Lindholm today? Well, in 2023 he retired after 40 years at the newspaper Kommunalarbetaren. When The journalistin February 2023, asked Lindholm what he would do as a pensioner, he replied:
– I don’t have a good answer to that, I don’t have clear plans for what I’m going to come up with now, but it has to be what it is. I have been fully focused on leaving my union assignments in LO Mediehus and quitting Kommunalarbetaren. Now I get to turn the pages and see what to fill them with.
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One that didn’t appear to be in “Astrid Lindgren’s beloved films” on TV4 was Maria Johansson who played the character The bull. For her, celebrity became too much – something that Stephen Lindholm comments on in the documentary series.
– We have to respect that she thought it was too much of a good thing. It’s sad, but on the other hand, she got a lot of focus and attention on her, so you can understand it even if it’s regrettable, he says in the program.
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Stephen Lindholm is the stepfather of Leila LindholmLeila Lindholm is Stephen Lindholm’s stepdaughter. Photo: Maja Suslin/TT
As a pensioner, we guess that Stephen Lindholm will have some extra time to spend with his family and that includes none other than the baker, the cook and the entrepreneur Leila Lindholm. She is the stepdaughter of Stephen Lindholm and it is also from him that she got her surname.
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