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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Mads Mikkelsen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 22
Actor
Executive Producer
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Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I’m not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises, let’s put it this way. Compromises are from hell.
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I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have to know what the director wants. Some are very much in their head, and I need to force it out of them. I just can't play around for eight hours and see if something happens.
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I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when I do stunts.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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