Mads Mikkelsen
Mads Mikkelsen
Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen; born 22 November 1965) is a Danish actor. Originally a gymnast and dancer, he began his career as an actor in 1996. He rose to fame in Denmark as Tonny the drug dealer in the first two films of the Pusher film trilogy, and in his role as the brash yet sensitive policeman, Allan Fischer, in Peter Thorsboe's Danish television series Rejseholdet...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 November 1965
CityCopenhagen, Denmark
CountryDenmark
Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.
Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.
The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.
Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'
I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.
I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.
'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.