'Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore' star Mads Mikkelsen talks taking over for Johnny Depp, and wanting to continue playing Grindelwald.
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen had two days to decide whether he wanted to take on the challenge of replacing Johnny Depp in the Fantastic Beasts films or not. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Mikkelsen spoke about the “chaotic” casting process, his determination to put his own stamp on the material, and his views on the franchise’s future.
“You don’t want to copy anything [Depp was] doing — that would be creative suicide. Even if [a role has] been done to perfection, you want to make it your own. But you still have to build some sort of bridge between what came before.” “It puts aside that they’re wizards and it’s just two grown-up people with a painful and beautiful past. Their past obviously meant the world to them, but was also full of disappointment. We wanted to establish that warmth before we went into the dilemma of the scene.”
Mikkelsen said that a comment made by him about wanting to speak with Depp prior to taking on the role was probably exaggerated. “I wasn’t like, ‘Oh please let me talk to him.’ It would have been great to touch bases, ‘clean the room’ in a sense. Maybe I’ll see him in the future,” he said.
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