Mads Mikkelsen: “I thought that’s a career” – SPIEGEL ONLINE

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    Mads Mikkelsen , born in 1965 in Copenhagen, was established in 2006 an international reputation as a Bond villain in “Casino Royale”. At the Cannes Film Festival he was 2012, “The hunt” named Best Actor in Drama abuse. For the US network NBC embodies the former dancer since 2013. killer cannibals “Hannibal”. “Men and Chicken” is his fourth film directed by Anders Thomas Jensen.


 

SPIEGEL: Mr Mikkelsen, if you want something so amusing but also disturbing as her new movie “Men & amp; Chicken” to look, you might think: The Spider, the Danes. Mikkelsen: Yes, but that would be a bit too easy, right? “Men & amp; Chicken” is not necessarily typical Danish, but typical Anders Thomas Jensen. There is no one who turns such films as he does. He takes the traditional elements of Danish cinema of the forties and fifties, the contemplative life in the country, and throws it in a box full of madness. The will to political incorrectness, however, underlies the is actually typically Danish.

SPIEGEL: “Men & amp; Chicken” is about four brothers who terrible about their origins to find out (at the end of the article gives a brief review of the film). Do you feel it, to scratch the clean image of Denmark and about to break as many taboos

Mikkelsen: The taboo itself is not so much the goal, if we a film like “Men & amp; Chicken” turn. But it arises often when Anders told his poetic stories about God, hell, or the meaning of life. In others, the might seem pretentious, but Anders has found a way to negotiate major themes based on insanity. I think that’s a very nice way to do that.

SPIEGEL: For 15 years, playing in every movie of Jensen. Why turn so happy with him?

Mikkelsen: To me it’s like coming home: It’s my language, I have been working with colleagues who are friends at the same time, and Anders tells stories that match me. This is extremely comfortable. On the other hand I do before each rotation, it will be anything but easy, because we challenge us again and again, always go beyond borders. We have made in such films as “The Green Butchers” or “Adam’s Apples” things to which I thought, “Ok, that’s a career” We were very brave. And I am very proud to have been part of.

SPIEGEL: In “Men & amp; Chicken” look with mustache and curly hair like a caricature of the Marlboro Man. Familiarize yourself with such wanton disfigurement on your title as “sexiest man alive” funny, the have you awarded a Danish magazine

Mikkelsen: you can not control anyway, what about a media write, right? In America, I’m the bad guy with the eye patch, in Denmark I am the sexy type, in Sweden the oblique guy. What ever. I’ll be 50. I can be happy if I still see a few older women attractive.

SPIEGEL: One might get the impression that vanity was totally foreign to them

Mikkelsen:. Oh, I’m very vain: I am actor! But I am a good team player. I am less interested in getting specific scenes – for example, how I get straight after a workout shirtless out of the water or something ??

SPIEGEL: … as your colleague, the Bond actor Daniel Craig in “Casino Royale” …

Mikkelsen : … because it would be indeed a waste not to show my freshly inflated upper arms (laughs). No, I do not have this gene. But I can also exist in certain scenes if I think they are important or critical to the character that I play. So I am, at least I hope, rather vain in terms of my film characters; not so much in terms of my own person

SPIEGEL ONLINE:. Speaking of “Casino Royale”, in which you play Craig opponent Le Chiffre. Have you never thought: Bond I could?

Mikkelsen: First of all, I have to take Daniel in protection: The scene, as he rises from the sea, was so in the script. He had to do it so. And he had the much better plan than I could have. I think those scenes are not so exciting, because they serve only one purpose, namely: to show the female spectators a naked men torso. There are on the internet a montage in which it looks as if I’m watching as Le Chiffre him doing with this bleeding eye – as if it were love among men. Fair enough! And a more interesting approach.

SPIEGEL: Did you ever feel at a real action role-playing? Your colleague Liam Neeson shows precisely how to do that in the mature age – and is very successful.

Mikkelsen: Clear, instantly! I have seen “96 hours”. Liam makes it very well. Sure, if it’s a good fabric: just bring it. I grew up with Charles Bronson and always found that older men who still have what it, a certain beauty and radiate coolness hell of a lot. It can not just be a matter of course, possible to look cool, would have the role also have a certain depth.

SPIEGEL: If Indiana Jones is not something for you?

Mikkelsen: No, I think I would not have it. Harrison Ford has this very specific charm. And above all, the first two films are spotless. Since no one comes ran.

SPIEGEL: Do you dare the slightly goofy not the Jones role?

Mikkelsen: I am going to have of humor as you go along “Men & amp; Chicken” see, but I do not like so much slapstick. So I’m not really good at it.

SPIEGEL: Abgründigere figures as the culinary versed killer Hannibal Lecter, the games in the NBC series “Hannibal”, you are obviously closer. After the current third season is closing, says the station. Was it a surprise to you?

Mikkelsen: It was no great surprise, the rates were in steady descent. Of course we are all very sad, but maybe we have to accept that it is really from. But perhaps also takes on a different station, which will decide in the coming weeks. Either way, we should be thankful that we have a series like “Hannibal”, which is more extreme than much of what is seen in the pay-TV, so long allowed to take on a Network station: the poetry, the dream-like and of course, radicality of violence. NBC took it further than we had ever hoped for.

SPIEGEL: What fascinated you about the character Hannibal

Mikkelsen: I like that Hannibal is not a tortured character. He is like a fallen angel who sees beauty where we only feel horror. It is in the face of terror as happy as if we watch our children play. His empathy is sincere, but of course everything is a little twisted. Hannibal is a very balanced person: He lives and enjoying every moment as if it were the last, and that’s ultimately something after everyone should strive for, right? Hannibal has no time for bad food or bad company. Every second counts.

SPIEGEL: Do you recognize your own philosophy of life in it again?

Mikkelsen: Yes. But as in all Hannibal is also herein the master. Since it does not come close. Also, I would be a hobby not necessarily a friend. But you can learn something from him: Do not waste time!

Short review: Men & amp; Chicken

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   Why must Elias ( Mads Mikkelsen , l.) Every five minutes to masturbate? Why is Gabriel ( David Dencik , r.) So clever? And why the two brothers look nothing alike? What is wrong with them, they will find out as they go in search of her biological father. In an old country house you can find out not only two degenerate-looking relatives, but also a disturbing family secret. After “Flashing Lights”, “The Green Butchers” and “Adam’s Apples” is a collection of Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen again his favorite ensemble to crack down on the edge of bad taste another hair-raising story about the eternal tussle between to tell God, man and nature. A cinema fun for robust minds. (bor) start July 2,

 

Watch the trailer for “Men & amp; Chicken”