Mads Mikkelsen says copying Johnny Depp’s Grindelwald is “creatively stupid.”

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Last year, it was announced that Mads Mikkelsen will play Gellert Grindelwald in the third Fantastic beasts film after Johnny Depp was asked by Warner Bros to leave the franchise after losing a heated legal battle against British tabloid The Sun.

Now, in an interview with Collider, Mikkelsen explained how he developed his own version of the villainous character, arguing that copying Depp would be “ creatively stupid. ”

‘Nobody is interested in me going in there and trying to copy something, that would be instant creative suicide, especially if it was done before and masterfully. So everyone expects us to find a different path. That said, we need a bridge between what he did and what I’m going to do, so you have to find those bridges together, whether it’s a certain look, whether it’s a certain attitude in certain situations, but you have to make it Your own. Anything else would just be creatively stupid. “

When asked what drew him to the project, Mikkelsen said participating in The Wizarding World was an opportunity to make a kind of film that isn’t made in Denmark.

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“I’m a huge fan of the Potter universe, and it’s the kind of genre you don’t find in my part of the world. You can’t get away with that in Denmark in terms of budget, so when it came my way, it was a fantastic opportunity. “

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