We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Oliver Fredin. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Oliver below.

Oliver, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

Trial and error. If there’s a question, an obstacle, a challenge, unknown territory, face it head on and whatever outcome, feed off of it.
But I didn’t understand that until later on during my career.
I was my biggest obstacle, my biggest teacher and my biggest student. I had to talk to myself a lot, I had to be hard on myself, also kind but if I deserved kindness.

During my dog years in the film industry as an actor I’d invest a lot personally into an audition, a project (even though we hadn’t started filming yet), i’d hold onto to auditions once I was finished with them, wondering if they’ll get back to me. Bad idea. You beat yourself up mentally. With time I’ve come to understand to let things go and to not get attached to anything until i’m on set filming, Today I delete self tapes right after i’m done with them, I refuse to get invested personally. I should’ve approached the film industry this way from the start but I wouldn’t know that unless I did what I did.

Whatever happens, happens. I know what i’m doing and it’s just a matter of time. If it’s tomorrow or in 5 years, i know it’ll happen because with every year I book better projects and bigger roles and if it happened once it’ll happen again.

Oliver, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

My name is Oliver Fredin. I come from a small town in Sweden called Helsingborg. I left everything behind and moved to the states when I was 22, I left Sweden for America, Helsinborg for Hollywood, I left to make my dream become a reality. To act.

In 2018 I moved to Los Angeles to study acting at NYFA in Burbank. I did 2 semesters of “Acting for Film” and I definitely learned a lot. Prior to this I’ve done some theater, but nothing in front of a camera. NYFA provided great acting/film classes but knowing what I know now, the best teacher/student is I and myself, no one else can communicate the way I communicate with myself.

I watch a lot of movies but when I pick a movie, I don’t necessarily go for the latest ones, or the most popular ones, I pick the ones with great actors, so I can study. Today I’ve had the opportunity to be in shorts, features, shows, commercials etc. I’ve had the chance to play vikings, cowboys, pirates and many more. I finally got to a point where I made my own film with a friend of mine and we went through hell to complete it. We recently finished principal photography and are very excited to start post prod.

I’m about to begin work on a feature film where i’m playing a unique role, I can’t say much about it but I’ll be the villain. I’m very excited about that as well.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

GOOD actors, through their acts, have made me feel things that takes me to places I have never been before or even places I need to revisit, they offer priceless moments nobody else can. If I can give that to someone, my parents at least, that would be a reward you can not put a price tag on.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

I finished acting school at the end of 2018 and had my first acting year in the industry 2019, then covid hit. After covid hit, we had a film industry with strikes and negotiations for about a year.

In other words, ever since I started my acting career it’s been a few grand obstacles and it has been very tough but i’m still here and I’m not going anywhere.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: oliverfredin

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Anthony Anastasi
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