Alicia Vikander on her Vladimir Putin movie: ‘We’re in a world where there’s a fear of speaking up’

Actor Alicia Vikander is tough to pin down. Speaking to me over Zoom from her home in London – one of the European homes where she lives with her husband, Kerry actor Michael Fassbender, and their two children – she’s in mum mode, running late after the school run, hair pulled into a loose bun, dressed in a soft cream jumper. Twice, mid-answer, she disappears from the frame to answer the door, apologising as she goes. “Sorry,” she says, returning, slightly breathless. “Deliveries.”