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Mads Mikkelsen On Potential 'Hannibal' Revival: "It's Got To Happen Eventually Sooner Than Later"

"The Promised Land" star Mads Mikkelsen reflects on "Hannibal," getting called a Nazi by Harrison Ford, and doing flying Kung Fu on "Doctor Strange."

From a sinister banker who cries tears of blood to a "former" Nazi obsessed with time travel to a therapist who's literally a cannibal, Mads Mikkelsen is no stranger to playing dark, villainous characters. That's exactly what Ludvig Kahlen, the retired army captain Mikkelsen plays in Nikolaj Arcel's epic historical drama "The Promised Land," does early in the film. In the case of that moment in "The Promised Land," Mikkelsen spent a week rehearsing with 9-year-old Melina Hagberg, whose breakout turn as the gypsy girl Anmai Mus marked her first ever acting role.

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