June 28, 2021 Instagram/theofficialmads Mads Mikkelsen would have "loved to have talked to" Johnny Depp about replacing him in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. He said: "I mean, obviously, they were going to do the film, and obviously he was not involved any more. "But I didn't have a dog in that fight. And I don't know what happened [in his private life], and I don't know if it was fair, him losing the job, but I just knew that the show was going on, and I would've loved to have talked to him about it if I had the chance, but I just don't know him in that sense.