The criteria [to take or refuse the role] is that I would love to have some kind of dialogue or communication with the director. I need to understand that we can communicate and that we like communication. That's something I have to have a strong feeling about. Secondly, I have to find the script intriguing or interesting. I don't have to understand the whole script, but I do have to find it intriguing. If those two things are present, that would probably be a yes.
Mads MikkelsenYeah, I do all the stuff I can. Letโs be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action โ the stunts. If they take that away from you, itโs a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But Iโm an old gymnast. I know how to survive.
Mads MikkelsenI think 40 years ago, it would have been a little bit different because people had a tendency to think the actor was their part. I do find people who, all of a sudden, realize who is sitting in the restaurant and the first thing they react on is not necessarily, "There's that actor," but it's, "There's that killer guy."
Mads Mikkelsen