Plus, the Danish actor reveals his first unexpected meeting with Harrison Ford.
“When I was a kid, I had no idea that you could end up becoming an actor.
I was just watching [these films] like everybody else.
Mads Mikkelsen as Jürgen Voller in ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’.Lucasfilm
And he stepped out with the hat, the jacket, and the whip, which was fun.”
So was Ford in character during this brief meeting?
“It’s hard to tell,” Mikkelsen jokes.
Harrison Ford in ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’.
“There’s an overlap between Harrison and his character, right?”
But, on second thought, he says, “No, no, no, he wasn’t.
Harrison, you get to know him.
Mads Mikkelsen in ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’.
So maybe he’s already a character himself, by just being Harrison.
And I do like that character, a lot.”
“[But] what does a better place look like?
This is where it gets tricky.
And then it’s recognizable, for me at least.”
And that can come in many shapes and forms.
I do think that he disagreed with Hitler on a lot of things.
He and director James Mangold did, however, have many discussions about how German the character should sound.
But if they can go hand in hand, that will be a good day for him."
Ultimately, he’s a dreamer, much like Indiana Jones, Mikkelsen says.
“Besides that,” says Mikkelsen, “he’s just a fantastic actor.
He knows exactly what he’s doing wherever the camera is.
And he doesn’t use enormous means to tell a story.
For me, he’s like Buster Keaton, who kind of invented the close-up.
He didn’t run to the camera, he made the camera come to him.
And it’s wonderful to be that close to see him work.
It was just a wonderful experience for me.”
“I think I’m always nervous when we start out,” he says.
But, “It’s not paralyzing nerves.
It’s just what we call the butterfly dust.
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