Saga Norén
| Saga Norén | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | "Episode #1.1" |
| Last appearance | "Episode #3.10" |
| Created by | Hans Rosenfeldt |
| Portrayed by | Sofia Helin |
| Quote | "Saga Norén, Länskrim Malmö" (as Saga always introduces herself) |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Police investigator |
| Family | Gösta (father, deceased) Marie-Louise (mother, deceased) Jennifer (sister, deceased) |
| Significant other(s) | Jakob Sandberg (ex-boyfriend) |
Saga Norén is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Swedish/Danish TV Series The Bridge (Bron/Broen). She is played by Swedish actress Sofia Helin. Saga is introduced as a member of the Malmö County Police Department in the first episode of the series. Suggested, but never stated, to have Asperger's syndrome she is portrayed as completely oblivious to social norms, but a brilliant and devoted police investigator. In the first two series, she develops an unlikely friendship with Danish cop Martin Rohde (played by Kim Bodnia), who is in many ways her complete opposite. In the third series she has another Danish detective Henrik Sabroe (played by Thure Lindhardt), as her partner.
Saga Norén was initially created to be a counterpart to the Danish character Martin Rohde, himself intended to be the opposite of the standard lead male detective in the crime genre. So as Rohde was envisioned as very extroverted and friendly, Saga was written to be a woman completely lacking in social skills. Lead writer Hans Rosenfeldt has said that it was not the specific intention of the writers to create a character with Asperger's, but that this is how many viewers have come to interpret the character.
While she is often seen as insensitive or rude to the characters around her, this is shown as unintentional. She approaches everything directly and logically, and often is oblivious to the fact that her blunt demeanour sometimes offends others, while her inability to empathise with people around her makes her somewhat unsuited to questioning the recently bereaved relatives of victims, but she usually attempts to make amends when it is explained to her and is generally not a malicious person. She is shown to have emotions and does care about those close to her, like Martin or her boss Hans, but she expresses them differently. She rarely smiles - in fact, the only time she is seen to express any outward emotion is when the obviously painful subject of her sister, Jennifer, comes up - she reacts with a violent rage when Martin mentions his research to her, and with hostility when she sees her mother. Although she rarely cries, she is occasionally seen to be on the verge of doing so when she becomes frustrated or upset. She does not like physical contact, and noticeably stiffens whenever someone shows her physical affection or simply touches her. She drives a vintage green 1977 Porsche 911.
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