And the value of that wall would probably be identical to 10 Danish film budgets. “I remember that they built a wall that was 1.8 miles long, and it was eight meters high and eight meters wide,” Mikkelsen recalls. When he moved to Hollywood productions with Antoine Fuqua’s 2004 film King Arthur, one thing stood out: the scale. “So I was suffering a little more, even though they didn’t get to my genitalia,” says the actor.īefore becoming a blockbuster mainstay in such movies as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Doctor Strange, Mikkelsen made his mark in Danish cinema after his acting debut in 1996’s Pusher. And it was just brutal as hell.”Īccording to Mikkelsen, the Casino Royale scene was shot in only one day. “That was some brutal days we did in Polar,” he recalls. Mikkelsen’s torture scene in Polar also involved extended time in low temperatures. I’m sure I enjoyed it a bit more than he did.” “I definitely prefer to be on the other side,” the actor tells The Hollywood Reporter.
