Adam Price

December 21, 2023

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Adam Price has spent decades writing stories about characters torn between passion and obligation. In this conversation with Sørine Godfredsen, he turns the lens on himself. Price describes growing up with actor-parents whose love for their work competed with their love for their children—a dynamic he has spent much of his adult life both repeating and trying to understand. The episode traces how a concentrated period of loss in his twenties—both parents died within six months—unleashed a darkness that he channeled into creative work, but also into cynical behavior that he now regrets. Price does not present himself as having resolved these tensions, but as someone who has become more aware of them.

A childhood of competing loves

Price describes his parents as people who were "very present" at Christmas and other special occasions, but largely absent in daily life. A hired caregiver handled the routine care. What made this bearable, he says, was that he could see how much his parents loved their work. "It was not parents who went out the door and where you thought, God, how bad is it for them," he says. "You knew that the love they felt for me, for my brother, for us as children, was challenged by the enormous love they also felt for what they did."

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What you'll learn

1 (00:27) **Introduction and Opening Question** - Host Sørine Godfredsen introduces the theme of "livskraft" (life force) and asks Adam Price to describe who he is without mentioning his work.
2 (02:45) **The "Soulful Person" and Work Passion** - Price discusses being a "soulful person" whose intense passion for work can blind him to other aspects of life.
3 (06:13) **The Life-Changing Event: Parents' Deaths** - Price reveals the concentrated loss of both parents within half a year, which created a clear "before and after" in his life.
4 (09:54) **Christmas Memories and Parental Absence** - Price recalls the magical, time-limited happiness of childhood Christmases, a feeling he can still access.
5 (16:29) **Choosing a Path: Law vs. Family Legacy** - Price describes his attempt to become a lawyer, inspired by his grandfather, while simultaneously being seduced by the 300-year-old family story of creative work.
6 (20:36) **Inheriting Parental Traits and Repeating Mistakes** - Price acknowledges he has inherited his parents' enthusiasm and passion for work, but also their tendency to be less present at home.
7 (24:18) **The Angry Mother and the Phone Call** - Price shares a memory of his mother coming home frustrated from work, her voice changing from angry to cheerful when a work colleague called.

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Guests on this episode

Sørine Godfredsen

Show Notes

Manuskriptforfatter og tv-kok Adam Price har altid, som sine forældre, defineret sig selv gennem sit arbejde. Men hvem er han, når man skræller karrieren væk? Det forsøger Sørine Gotfredsen at få svaret på. Adam Price taler også om, at lade sit arbejde være en undskyldning for at skuffe både børn og kærlighedsrelationer, sorgen over at miste sine forældre, og hvordan han i dag kan se sig selv begå samme fejl, som sine forældre gjorde, da han var barn.