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Vikander and Fassbender's parents met at Oscars

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander
Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander

Alicia Vikander has revealed that her parents met Michael Fassbender's parents at the Oscars in 2016, when she won Best Supporting Actress for The Danish Girl.

Speaking on a new Elle UK It's a Mood video about her different fashion decisions through the years, the Tomb Raider star said of the 2016 Oscars: "I actually spent most of the evening in the green room with my parents and my [future] husband and his parents.

Alicia Vikander winning Best Supporting Actress at the 2016 Oscars

"Actually, it was also when our parents almost [sic] met for the first time that night, so that was a pretty wild experience, actually."

Vikander also recounted how she and husband Fassbender celebrated his birthday during lockdown in France by wearing matching his and hers pink bowling shirts.

Explaining what spurred them on to wear them, she said: "That was not me who gave him that. It was actually a friend of ours who has a really cool kind of street wear fashion brand. So he had given us these matching pink bowling shirts, so I thought that was a good time to wear them! We did it in the house, but yeah, we should be brave enough to wear them out in public next so!"

The couple married in October 2017 in Ibiza. Vikander previously revealed that when she first met Fassbender they didn't speak but just danced with each other.

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