Alicia Vikander plans to use Oscar as toilet brush

Actress Alicia Vikander is planning to convert her Academy Award into a loo brush for her guest toilet.

The Swedish beauty picked up a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2016 for her work in The Danish Girl and admits she has not seen the statuette since, revealing her friend's daughter has the trophy in her bedroom for safekeeping while Alicia travels the world filming and promoting movies.

And when she is reunited with her little gold man, Alicia insists she has no plans to put it on display at home, joking she would rather find a function for the prize.

"I heard Kate Winslet had it (her Oscar) in the loo," she told USA Today, "and I also like when things are practical. The loo idea is really good.

"I have this guest bathroom, and with the shape of it (the Oscar) and the bottom, it would be the perfect cap of my toilet brush. What if you had to lift that? That would be funny. And people would use it. Good."

Alicia admits the decorative lavatory idea has been running through her mind for years: "That’s what I remembered (after I won the Oscar) the one night when I had him. Everyone wants to hold him," she giggled, "so I thought about making it into the toilet brush. That would be really cool."

The 29-year-old wife of Irish actor Michael Fassbender has gone so far with the scheme in her imagination, she has even thought up what it would be like to walk into the hardware store to present the idea with her Oscar in hand.

"It would be funny going to the store and to be like, 'I have this idea,'" she laughed. "I wondered if you could... well I want to put the brush underneath it."