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Mads Mikkelsen stars in Bryan Fuller's feature film debut 'Dust Bunny' out this December, but how well does he know his lines from James Bond 007, Star Wars, his films with Nicolas Winding Refn and more?
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00:00He's gonna kill me for this.
00:01I am the in this one,
00:03and you thought you were gonna make me sing now.
00:11Well, I think I would call you on that one.
00:15That's an easy one.
00:15This is, Daniel Craig was the only guy in that film
00:19who did not know how to play poker.
00:22And he ran away with 150 million of my dollars.
00:26Casino Royale.
00:27Well, I think I will call you on that one.
00:30I play poker.
00:31I played a lot of poker during shooting that film,
00:33and all the guys at the table were big poker players.
00:37And as I said, Daniel had no clue.
00:40We hated him for it.
00:41It was a fun experience.
00:42It was very big for me,
00:43but obviously it was gigantic for Daniel.
00:46And we take it for granted that he was that big,
00:48but he was just like anyone else from Europe,
00:51made small indie films.
00:53That was a lot of pressure on him.
00:54The crying eye, the blood from the eye.
00:57Yeah, we tried all kinds of different things.
00:59Put some makeup in there, add something in my eye.
01:01Everything was just painful.
01:03So we ended up just doing CGI on it.
01:05Because they need what I know.
01:09Torture scene is definitely my favorite scene of the movie.
01:12I mean, it was a long day for Daniel.
01:13He lost his voice.
01:15He was screaming for 24 hours.
01:17Listen, he took 150 million from me.
01:19I think he deserved that whipping.
01:21Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.
01:26I have a hunch this is from my flying kung fu debut of Doctor Strange.
01:36It is not.
01:38Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.
01:43Oh, you've got to help me out here then.
01:46You know, that's Hannibal then.
01:48He would say something like that.
01:49Yeah, for sure.
01:50That's Hannibal.
01:51Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.
01:53He said a lot of stuff.
01:54He spoke Hungarian and Japanese and all kinds of things.
01:57It makes sense that I will forget a line like that because it was a very wordy show.
02:02And it came in late, Brian Fuller, thank you.
02:05So you had the option of sleeping or eating in the evening or learn your new life.
02:10I've never met anyone whose mind is working like that.
02:13It was just so fast and so imaginative, everything.
02:17And it was just an instant.
02:19Let's do this together.
02:20This sounds fun.
02:25I did everything in the sense of like doing the cooking with my hands, flipping things,
02:30catching things, fire on things.
02:32But that was more like my dancing background.
02:35There was kind of an aesthetic sense to everything being so sensual and fluid.
02:40I cannot guarantee how it tasted, but I did all the juggling of the food, right?
02:45It was a beautiful show.
02:46So obviously the preparation of the food was an essential key to a lot of it.
02:50It was a big challenge to try to walk in the Anthony Hopkins shoes would be creative suicide immediately.
02:58But given the fact that this was a TV show, we would learn much more about Hannibal.
03:03We will build him up very slowly.
03:06And he convinced me that Hannibal was from Lithuania, so he could have a funny accent.
03:10So we went for it.
03:13Let's see what this is.
03:15Yeah, well, that's an easy one.
03:17Mr. Doctor.
03:18I believe there should be a question mark on that one.
03:21Mr. Doctor.
03:23Doctor Strange.
03:24Mr. Doctor.
03:25It's strange.
03:27It was a little back and forth with him being strange.
03:30Yes, it is.
03:31Mr. Doctor.
03:32That was a little joke in there.
03:33And I think we were not on the same footing how to deliver that.
03:37I come from a very dry background, underplaying it.
03:40And I think that it was written as if it was a little larger.
03:43So it ended up being a success.
03:45It was fun.
03:46It was a fantastic film to be part of.
03:47I loved that film.
03:48I knew the comic book.
03:50Psychedelic thing from the 60s.
03:52They not only got away with being allowed to do that, but I also think they managed to
03:57really be honest to the comic book.
03:59And I got to do flying kung fu on wires.
04:02I was an ex-gymnast.
04:04I am an ex-gymnast, and I do a lot of stunts myself.
04:08I never had the chance, and I was a big Bruce Lee fan.
04:10So I was like, finally, before it's too late.
04:17It must be destroyed.
04:20Yes.
04:21So a couple of years ago, at Christmas, my brother was there.
04:28And he's a big legal fan.
04:30And somebody had given him the Death Star.
04:33And it's like, I don't know how many pieces.
04:36It was insane.
04:37And for some odd reason, he just kind of left the table.
04:40I started building it.
04:41I was like, what are you doing?
04:42And he was struggling.
04:43And then, and it hit me.
04:45I can help out, because I created the Death Star in Rogue One.
04:50So I created it, and I also planted a little, what do you call it?
04:56A little thing, a thingy that could destroy it.
05:01It must be destroyed.
05:03Oh, that was a brutal, I would say day, but it was days, because there was a lot of changes
05:09in the story.
05:10We went back and forth.
05:12And it was raining.
05:14And when you do artificial rain, it is almost impossible to do that in a long scene without
05:20having ice cold water.
05:23So I was lying there, freezing to death, trying to get, keep my eyes open while I'm looking
05:30at my daughter and doing this little, little speech to her.
05:34And so I, that was a, it was uphill battle.
05:38Let's put it that way.
05:39But I think the film ended up being quite cute and sweet film.
05:43I enjoyed watching it.
05:44Yeah, for Star Wars film, it was surprisingly unfinished in the script.
05:49It kept changing.
05:50And one would think that that was already done.
05:53I don't think they ever locked a draft.
05:55I think they kept working on it and, and improvised and went back and reshot stuff and then came
05:59up with a better idea, which is kind of livable for a character like mine.
06:03I mean, I, I had my admission.
06:04I knew what it was, but it was obviously tricky for the two young heroes, not knowing exactly
06:09what they were carrying into a room of, of, of baggage.
06:13But I think, I think, as I said, I think they, it turned out to be a really nice film.
06:22Here we go.
06:23That, that's like, that's the easiest one, right?
06:26Bitch better have my money.
06:27It's a line I did not say, but I am the bitch in this one.
06:32It's a Rihanna music video.
06:35Bitch better have my money.
06:38That came my way.
06:40I don't know why.
06:41I think she saw me in something or somebody said, have a look at him.
06:44I didn't know too much about her.
06:45Once I saw her and, and heard some music.
06:47Yeah, yeah, I know her.
06:48She's great.
06:49This is probably the first time my son was impressed by anything.
06:54And the first time for sure he wanted to come to the set with me.
06:57And I was like, no, he can't.
06:59I have a hunch he's not going to wear a lot of clothing.
07:01So you're not coming.
07:02Right.
07:03It was fun.
07:04It was a rock and roll project.
07:05I think that the script for this story was like 15 pages for a little music video.
07:10And it was, and these two French brothers were doing it.
07:13And I think they got maybe 20% in the can and the rest were never shot.
07:18So it was like one of these projects where we just, let's do something.
07:22Let's do something crazy.
07:23And then they morphed it all together at the end and it, and it became cool.
07:26I'm the accountant, I guess.
07:28Yeah.
07:29Who stole money from her.
07:31Don't do that to Rihanna.
07:33She'll come back.
07:34She'll come back.
07:35You got more for me.
07:41Oh, wow.
07:45Oh, here we go.
07:47Oh, yeah.
07:48Now I get it.
07:50This is my debut.
07:51It's the first film I ever did.
07:53It's called Pusher.
07:54Pusher 1.
07:55I'm a sidekick to the main character called Frank.
08:02This is directed by Nicholas Rathen.
08:04His first film as well.
08:06My job in that film was generally just to annoy the shit out of the main character.
08:11Just being the most annoying person you could be.
08:14So that was all ad lib, all in pro.
08:16Everything I could come up with being this character who's just, I mean, 180 miles an hour,
08:21just not thinking, just reacting constantly.
08:24We had a great relationship and it's a great, great film.
08:27We ended up doing three of those.
08:28Pusher 1, 2, and 3, and they're all in their own rights, really something special.
08:33So, yes, I remember that line.
08:35I don't know why I said it, but I did.
08:38I was in drama school at that point.
08:40And Nicholas wanted to do this street film about the rock environment of Copenhagen.
08:45And he wanted to be in your face, reality, documentary style.
08:49He didn't want to use any actors because he didn't want people to say lines.
08:53And so he wanted, like, authenticity.
08:56And then the casting, people around him advised him to get, you need at least two or three actors for this film.
09:02It's just too much for you to carry around.
09:04And he didn't like anyone.
09:05And then he heard about me by someone that said, take a look at this guy.
09:11He's in his drama school and nobody understands what he's saying.
09:16He's just speed talking and mumbling.
09:18It's like we don't know where he can fit in, but have a look at him.
09:22And Nicholas saw me and I did a scene.
09:25And he laughed so hard because he had no idea what I said, but he liked it.
09:30I was in the midst of finding my feet as an actor, I guess.
09:34And we could use that for Pusher.
09:35That energy was perfect.
09:36And later on I had to dial it down a little, figure out other way to express myself.
09:41But you have to find your own feet.
09:44And this worked really well for Pusher.
09:47And when I revisit the character ten years later, it was kind of gone, that energy in me.
09:51So I had to find it again.
09:53I loved doing that film.
09:54It was a rock and roll project in the 90s and the Dogma concept.
09:57This was just before.
09:59And this is one of the films where we didn't have those rules.
10:01We just went for it.
10:03It stirred up a lot of things.
10:04People were like, are you allowed just to grab a camera and do that?
10:08It was an energy we have never had in a Danish movie.
10:11And it changed a lot of things.
10:12It was the beginning of everything for me.
10:15There you go.
10:16That one.
10:19Bebe.
10:22Yeah, well.
10:23It's got to be Death Stranding.
10:25Yeah.
10:27Bebe.
10:28The funny thing is because you two B's there.
10:30Bebe.
10:31And I'm not sure how it was spelled, whether it was spelled like that or something else.
10:34It's this baby I kind of carry around.
10:37And Norman Reedus carries it around in a video game called Death Stranding.
10:42Yeah.
10:43Fantastic.
10:44Surreal experience.
10:45I'm not a gamer myself.
10:46And trying to understand exactly where this game was going was just me and Norman just
10:51listening to him going after two hours going, we don't get it.
10:55I mean, we went back and forth because it's a long time to develop a game.
11:00I think maybe three or four years.
11:02So throughout that period, he will call us back for one day or two days, do little things,
11:06improve on something, change something.
11:08I don't know.
11:09All in all, I had 10 days on the project.
11:11I'm sure Norman had much more.
11:12It was fun not to be alone because we were dressed up in a green suit with dots on our
11:17faces and imagining everything.
11:19Yeah.
11:20He is the godfather of that world, Hideo Kojima.
11:22It was a big honor to work with him.
11:24He invited everybody he knew to be part of it.
11:27And that was funny and iconic for us to watch.
11:30I had no idea Nicolas was in it.
11:32Oh, he's the guy with the heart thing.
11:34Oh, Jan was there.
11:35They turned out to be great actors, all of them.
11:38This is a long one.
11:41Yeah.
11:42Not that long ago, I would be able to go like that and remember the whole thing.
11:47But it's not happening.
11:48And then the guy, he goes, yeah, you got any porn?
12:06So this is me working in a video store.
12:09The film is called Bleeder.
12:11I'm basically playing the director, Nicolas.
12:22They're all his favorite directors.
12:24He worked in a video store.
12:26He was an oddball.
12:27And the only thing he could talk about was films.
12:30And in this specific scene, somebody comes in and asks for something.
12:33And I just ran off art house directors.
12:36And it turns out the guy just in there to get some porn.
12:39Right.
12:40So that's my character.
12:42I was a little let down with the way they shot that scene in the sense that when he asked
12:47me, I go, yeah, let me see.
12:48And I go, I just start throwing out all these names.
12:53And I knew them all by heart.
12:55And the list was much longer than this.
12:57And then I saw it.
12:58It looked as if I'm just reading from somewhere.
13:00I was like, you can't shoot it like that.
13:03It looks as if I'm reading.
13:04I spent a month learning this.
13:06But it's still iconic.
13:07I love that film.
13:08It was very interesting because I came from doing Push It with Nicolas.
13:12And then he wanted me to do something 180 degrees different.
13:16Completely different energy.
13:18A different personality.
13:20And I was like, wow, this is nice.
13:23You have the same director seeing me with different eyes.
13:26There's some trust in there that I really cherished.
13:29Yeah.
13:30So we did Push It 1, 2, Bleeder, Valhalla Rising, Dead 4.
13:34I was behind the camera on Push It 3 for a little while.
13:38Was that it?
13:39I think I'm missing out on one.
13:42He's going to kill me for this.
13:43But we're going to work together again one day.
13:46We just have to figure out what it is.
13:55Because I'm going to be the last thing you see before you go by fire.
13:59And you thought you were going to make me sing now.
14:01Yeah.
14:02I had my singing debut as if the pressure was not on already.
14:05Because I'm not a singer.
14:07I'm, you know, a bathtub singer like a lot of people.
14:11I get confused if there's too many instruments in there.
14:13It's like, hey, where's my key?
14:15Take it easy, boys.
14:16So I can get lost in the world of notes.
14:19And then I had my debut in Lion King.
14:27And that debut was Abbey Road Studio.
14:30It's like, guys, can you dial the pressure down a little, right?
14:34But it was a really nice experience.
14:36I had a singing coach there who guided me through.
14:38I'm sure that the professional singer would have been in and out in an hour.
14:41I was at least there for eight.
14:42But he insisted on pitching everything myself and not dialing up and down on me.
14:47So it was a really nice experience.
14:49I was very proud of being part of that project.
14:51And a wonderful director and a wonderful cast.
14:54And I had two songs, actually.
14:57I don't think the second one is in there.
15:00I've been fearing all my life to sing.
15:01It was just not my cup of tea.
15:03But it was a nice experience.
15:06Brenda, you know how that sounds and you still said it anyway.
15:14Dust Bunny, coming to a theater near you, December 12th.
15:18Brenda, you know how that sounds and you still said it anyway.
15:22So this is Dust Bunny.
15:24It's one of the scenes where I'm playing the neighbor and I'm lying.
15:28And he's acting a little here.
15:31And he's a shitty actor.
15:33And this Brenda character is from the FBI.
15:37And I am persuading her that I have nothing to do with whatever is happening in this scene.
15:44That came out a little.
15:45It's a great film.
15:47In good old fashioned style, Brian Fuller, it's a lifted world.
15:51It's funny.
15:52It's poetic.
15:53And it's beautiful.
15:54And it's also sufficiently scary.
15:57There is something under the bed.
16:00Here's another one.
16:02I just want to say something.
16:03Just tell me something.
16:04I want to say something.
16:05I want to say something.
16:06Wow.
16:07That is not an epic line.
16:11So it's one of the lines that we all forgot about.
16:15I have a hunch.
16:18This is from The Hunt.
16:19Is it?
16:20Is it?
16:21Yeah.
16:22I'll just say something to you.
16:29Oh, it was there.
16:31Yeah, this is a big comeback for him.
16:34Yeah, he's been thrown around by everyone emotionally and physically.
16:38And at one point he turns around and pushes back.
16:41Yeah.
16:42It was a very, very fulfilling scene to do about time.
16:46It's a film that was a very heartbreaking read.
16:49It was a very frustrating read because it's nobody's villain in here.
16:53Everybody's doing what they're doing out of fear and out of love.
16:58So it's impossible to aim your anger at any place.
17:02And the film came out like that as well.
17:04It was a hard watch.
17:06It was a lonely film to make because I was authorized from the get-go in the film.
17:12So it felt lonely.
17:15But ultimately, I think it was a very powerful, very beautiful film.
17:19It was a risky thing.
17:20It was not because of that.
17:21But I mean, it was not the height of the Me Too.
17:23But the accusation was rolling for a good reason at that point.
17:27But there was also the other side.
17:29There were so many cases where they just took for granted that something happened.
17:33And then it turned out it didn't.
17:35And those people never got their lives back.
17:38So it was kind of like just a comment to discuss this on a deeper level, I guess.
17:45It was an interesting thing because it's so Danish in many ways.
17:48And I remember the American audience were like, so for the people who don't know the film,
17:54this man is accused of molesting a child.
17:57And we see that it's not true.
17:59We know he's innocent from the get-go.
18:01And this little girl has a crush on him, an innocent crush.
18:04And at one point, she kisses him.
18:06And he's thrown back with that.
18:08And he tells her not to do that.
18:09And a lot of Americans were like, he should get a lawyer right away.
18:13Get a lawyer.
18:14And that's just not a Danish thing.
18:17You don't do that.
18:18Looking back, he probably should have gotten one.
18:20That was my first cooperation with Thomas.
18:24And we'd known each other for years before that.
18:26But he had his gang of people.
18:28And I was working with my gang.
18:29And finally, we were grown up enough so we could ask each other, like, should we do something together?
18:34Here we go.
18:38Yeah.
18:39You can see Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston L. Churchill, or Hedewis Harlowet.
18:45This guy.
18:47And that is a quote from Another Round.
18:50You have chosen Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston L. Churchill.
18:58But you have chosen him.
19:00Thank you for that.
19:01Come here.
19:02I am a teacher.
19:04And I am experimenting together with my colleagues with just drinking a tiny little bit while I'm working.
19:12And, of course, that tiny little bit becomes a little more and a little more.
19:16So I'm a drunk teacher.
19:18And this is where he's also been a very boring teacher.
19:20But this is where he's peaking.
19:22He's got the gang here.
19:23He's got the gang here.
19:24He's an entertainer.
19:25And he's doing a fantastic job at this point.
19:28This one was big.
19:29Of all the Danish films, I think this is the one that traveled the most or reached the biggest audience.
19:34It was COVID.
19:36We were lucky that it was in theaters in Denmark for the entirety before the shutdown.
19:40And after that, it went on a platform to the rest of the world.
19:43And the rest of the world would be hesitant to watch a foreign film.
19:47All of a sudden, giving an opportunity to push that button and watch somebody who was not in the middle of a shutdown.
19:54Somebody who was actually in the middle of life.
19:56That combination of watching life being embraced by these people and also that it was on the platform was just somehow our luck.
20:06I thought the dance was like, if there was a dance, it should be a lifted universe.
20:12It was like almost a drunken fantasy.
20:14And he was like, no, you're just dancing.
20:17I hated it.
20:18I didn't want to do it.
20:19I thought it was wrong for the film.
20:21And I just, he can't convince me.
20:23This is a realistic film.
20:24It's too pretentious.
20:25But then a lot of things happened during the shooting.
20:28A disaster happened in his life and in our lives.
20:31And it just made sense.
20:33Everything became a tribute to life all of a sudden.
20:35And I went along and it's a fantastic ending.
20:39It's something about remembering to live.
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