Being an actor is of course different in USA. Joel Kinnaman Inc employs about six agents; three movie agents and three for tv, one manager, a managers assistant, a publicist, a business manager and a lawyer. I’m a typical swede, so I of course associate these people as “his people”, but Joel seem to genuine like them.

- I don’t feel any pressure from them. The day I want to do theater just to get inspiration and evolve, they will think it’s just fine. If we didn’t understand each other we would never be able to work together.  

How much Entourage is the life in LA?
- Haha, maybe 25%? Weird meetings, parties, it’s all there, but it all depends how you relate to it. I’m quite skeptical and try take everything with a bit of humor. Like, it is what it is. I’d rather go to a nice place where they play good music than to the party Perez Hilton think is happening just because you get a free pair of sun glasses. 

Daniél Espinosa, who directed the first part of Snabba Cash, has just made his Hollywood debut as director for the movie Safe House with Denzel Washington. Espinosa managed to give Joel a supporting role. So now he’s acting with one of his biggest idols.

- I was sitting in my trailer, daydreaming about what our first meeting would be like. How I would sit and listen to old soul music and Denzel would walk by and be like: “Hey, aren’t you that Swedish kid? You listen to this shit? This is good shit!” and I would say: “Oh man, you’ve been such a huge inspiration. I watched Malcom X and you got me so confused, because at dinner I saw devils everywhere!”

(To get this you need to know that in the movies Malcom X calls white people “devils”, and the people around the dinner table in the Kinnaman house were, that’s right, white people. There for: “devils”.)

- He’s not a social person, Denzel. He’s famous for not talking to anyone, barely the director. The day after I, Daniél and Denzel got some time for our selfs and Daniél said something like “Joel is your biggest fan” and Denzel smiled and I started with “Oh man, you’ve been such a huge inspiration. I watched Malcom X and you got me so confused…” But then his security guard called him and he walked away and all I got to say was that he got me confused. It was all completely wrong.

Now he’s chewing nicotine chewing gum again. I don’t know if it’s the one he put on the table or if it’s a new one.

So are you rich now? 
- I don’t even tell my closest friends how much I make. But I get by.

Do you fly business if you have to pay for yourself? 
I have the miles so I can often upgrade. But yes, I fly business on the long flights. You can’t sit in the back when you’re 6.2 if you fly to LA seven times a year. 

He has finished his dinner, taken a phone call (“Sho, I’m doing an interview. No, you can’t come over, I just told you I’m doing an interview.”) and suddenly realizes he’s in a hurry to catch the Göteborg train. I let him leave and pay the check. The staff is still happy about getting to serve Mr. Kinnaman.