Warning: This text accommodates spoilers for season two of Vikings: Valhalla.

Season two of Vikings: Valhalla offered a brand new problem for star Frida Gustavsson.

Whereas the Swedish actress underwent in depth coaching to painting protect maiden Freydís Eiríksdóttir in season one of many Netflix drama, she needed to shift the way in which she carried herself within the new season as her character remodeled from Viking warrior to expectant mom.

“I do not simply struggle, I struggle whereas pregnant and sporting a costume,” Frida informed E! Information about her season two transformation. “I labored actually carefully with Susan O’Connor Cave, our great costume designer, and we broke down the complete arc of the season of how far alongside is she within the being pregnant.”

She continued, “After which we labored with the prosthetics group to create prosthetics that might weigh the suitable quantity of the place I used to be within the stage. It actually shifted my heart of stability and made me have learn to struggle once more.”

As for a way she felt whereas filming with the faux child bump? “I felt so protecting, as a result of it modified every little thing about my physicality,” she recalled. “All of the sudden, my ft began turning just a little bit extra outwards, as a result of the stomach was weighing in and that shifted how my hips set. It modified how I walked. Instinctively, I am standing holding my stomach. And, for everybody on set, they needed to remind themselves that I am not really pregnant.”