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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
Mads Mikkelsen
Book
People
Sometimes
Picture
Films
Frame
Tell
Throw
Talking
Misunderstand
Just
Whole
Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.
Mads Mikkelsen
Way
Danish
Spreading
Fantastic
Film
I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.
Mads Mikkelsen
Smell
Wear
Cologne
Take
Put
Like
Occasionally
Deodorant
Just
Anytime
Shower
Basically
I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
Mads Mikkelsen
Enormous
Metabolism
Lucky
Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
Mads Mikkelsen
You
Once
Bad
Bad Guy
Bad Guys
Guy
Guys
Offered
Get
I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
Mads Mikkelsen
Great
Challenge
Looking
Great Film
Make
Really
Film
Necessarily
If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
Mads Mikkelsen
You
Action
Way
Bruised
Real
Doing
Up
Then
Action Film
Film
Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
Mads Mikkelsen
You
Sometimes
Research
Homework
Enough
Writers
Piece
Period
Well
Well Enough
Around
Done
Where
Information
Script
I choose work with the people I like to work with.
Mads Mikkelsen
Work
People
Like
Choose
I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
Mads Mikkelsen
Man
Sexiest
Rather
Voted
Ugliest
Denmark
Than
I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.
Mads Mikkelsen
Work
Job
About
Annoying
Fairly
Am
Ambitious
Each
Career
Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.
Mads Mikkelsen
Work
Director
Before
Make
Sure
Same
Same Page
Just
Script
Page
Awhile
I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.
Mads Mikkelsen
Me
You
Become
Awesome
Definitely
Spicy
Takes
Hours
Make
Does
Soup
Very
Five
Taste
Ingredients
Whole
Prepare
Coconut
Milk
Thing
I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.
Mads Mikkelsen
Work
Happy
Whatever
Think
Had
Pick
Pick And Choose
Always
Doing
End
Up
Going
Want
Interesting
Choose
In a way, we tried to make 'The Salvation' a contemporary film with contemporary emotions. At the same time, in the script, you get a feel that all the small talk is not a part of our universe. It's more precise talk.
Mads Mikkelsen
Time
You
Emotions
Universe
Our
Way
Tried
More
Small
Small Talk
Part
Feel
Contemporary
Talk
Make
Get
Salvation
Same
Precise
Same Time
Script
Film
I have the strange ability to shut things out.
Mads Mikkelsen
Strange
Out
Ability
Things
Shut
In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
Mads Mikkelsen
Me
Tired
People
Will
Year
Films
Those
Making
Denmark
Up
Get
Really
Showing
Showing Up
Even
Fast
Two
The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.
Mads Mikkelsen
World
Internet
About
Something
Know
Happens
Which
Whole
Thing
TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
Mads Mikkelsen
You
TV
Never-Ending
New
Obviously
Because
Going
Different
Process
Pages
Keep
Film
Keeps
Receiving
I felt perhaps 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a little premature. It was a huge hit around the world - it was still running in the theatres - and the Americans at that time were already shooting the remake, and I was like, 'Whoa! Give it a break of five or six years and get a little inspired, and then do it.'
Mads Mikkelsen
Time
World
Girl
Whoa
Running
Give
Inspired
Remake
Like
Perhaps
Around
Felt
Still
Were
Years
Huge
Five
Hit
Get
American
Shooting
Tattoo
Six
Break
Little
Then
Premature
Dragon
I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.
Mads Mikkelsen
Myself
Good
Me
People
Understanding
Radical
Weaknesses
Finding
Pretty
Pretty Good
More
Tend
Making
Than
Listen
Being
Fancy
Script
Them
Then
Being Pretty
I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.
Mads Mikkelsen
Work
Character
Light
Slow
Energy
Tempo
He
Always
Heavy
Whether
Fast
I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.
Mads Mikkelsen
Love
Time
Sports
To Be Honest
Films
Secondly
TV
Partly
Because
Lot
Anymore
Much
Many
Watch
Watched
Watching
Honest
I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen
School
Year
High
High School
Small
Until
Very
Energetic
Growing
Start
Last
Last Year
If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
Mads Mikkelsen
Old
Hunt
Would
Constantly
Doing
Very
Get
Fast
I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
Mads Mikkelsen
Family
Sports
Mellow
Out
Pretty
Guy
Also
Go
Lot
Get
Hang
Pub
Much
Actually
Chance
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