“Sometimes You Just Want To Go Out Sword In Hand”
IT COULDN’T HAPPEN to a nicer guy. It’s a phrase that aptly fits Mads Mikkelsen, the Danish actor who has become the king of franchise films these past years. Already he’s played villains in James Bond film Casino Royale and Marvel’s Doctor Strange, Thomas Harris’ serial killer Hannibal Lecter in TV show Hannibal and the bloke who designed the Death Star in Star Wars spin-off Rogue One. “I grew up with big Hollywood films, watching them,” he says. “All of a sudden, I’m part of that. And I love that.”
Even this past lockdown year, Mikkelsen has been winning at life. “I was planning to learn a few languages. I never got around to it.” Instead, he played tennis, started building a summer cottage at his home in Copenhagen and bought a pet. “We spent a
