United Kingdom, March 21 -- Alicia Vikander faced a "struggle" to get pregnant.

The 36-year-old actress - who has two sons, who were born in 2021 and 2024, with husband Michael Fassbender - went through an "obsession" with having a child when she didn't conceive as quickly as she'd have liked, and recalled putting "pressure" on herself.

Alicia can next be seen in 'The Assessment' as an assessor spending a week with a couple in the dystopian near future to determine their suitability as parents and told how one of her "first conversations" with director Fleur Fortune was about her "struggle to get pregnant".

She added to People magazine: "That lasted for quite a long time before I had my first son.

"[I remember] both pressure that I pu...