Over the years, Mads Mikkelsen has played characters like a high-society, serial killing cannibal as Hannibal Lecter, a blood-crying, testicle-destroying Bond villain as Le Chiffre, and Cliff Unger, one of the most tortured soldiers in Hideo Kojima’s line-up of tortured video game soldiers in
Death Stranding. In one of his latest roles, though, Mikkelsen’s task wasn’t to channel the dark psychology of a terrorist or murderer—it was to figure out how to convincingly portray someone who’s drunk a whole lot.
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The
BBCspoke to Mikkelsen and his castmates about the unique challenges of playing drunk in the recently released