[dramatic sting]

- Raise, 12 million, heads up.

- Everybody knew how to play poker, actually,

around that table except for one, Daniel, he had no clue.

He sucked.

Hi, I'm Mads Mikkelsen

and these are some of my iconic characters,

some people tell me.

[upbeat music]

"Casino Royale."

[suspenseful music]

- Weeping blood comes merely from a derangement

of the tear duct, my dear general, nothing sinister.

- That was one of the things

that the director actually insisted on

because a real Bond villain has something,

got golden teeth or an extra nipple or something.

So, he went for the eye thing.

Daniel Craig and I and Martin Campbell,

we had a lot of ideas.

Daniel came straight from like indie films, smaller films

and I also had my background in the "Pusher" films.

We discussed, among other things, the big torture scene

and we went down the rabbit hole, me and Daniel,

we had so many ideas and it was getting crazier and crazier.

You could just see Martin going, "Guys, guys come back,

it's, it's a Bond film."

"Oh yeah, you're right, sorry!"

But he was quite open to look and experiment

with the parameters of what you can do in a Bond film.

- I suppose our friend, Mr. White, will have told you

that I have provided reliable banking services

for many of freedom fighters over the years.

- Do you believe in God, Mr. Le Chiffre?

- No, I believe in a reasonable rate of return.

- He's a normal person, he's not taking over the world,

he's not one of those guys.

He's in it for the money

and if Bond didn't bump into his way,

they would never have met, it's not that he's after anyone.

So obviously he's vulnerable,

there's people above him,

people who are used to violence

in a different way than he is

and he's a different kind of villain, that's for sure.

[suspenseful music]

- Oops.

- I played a lot of poker since I was a kid,

so the game was not new to me.

The hands we are playing are insane, you know,

so if you're a poker player, you'll go, "What?"

We just wanted to make the nature of the betting believable

but the hands obviously had to be easily recognizable

for an audience that doesn't play poker,

so they were quite crazy hands.

But, yeah, everybody knew how to play poker

actually around that table, except for one,

Daniel, he had no clue, he sucked.

And it was the worst thing ever that he, of all people,

had to beat me and win all my money,

it was like, "This is wrong."

Well, I got him back with the rope, so that's good.

[upbeat music]

"Dr. Strange."

- For well beyond time, because time is what enslaves us.

Time is an insult, death is an insult.

- That was like some glam rock from the seventies

just coming up there.

It looked good, took forever,

we were sitting three hours in that chair every morning.

We cut it down eventually but, in the beginning,

it was very elaborate,

I think we ended up maybe an hour and 45

but it was still a long time, right?

And it was annoying,

it was just annoying to be wearing that.

But luckily I wasn't the only one,

you can feel a little weird if you're the only one doing it,

I had a whole gang of zealots doing the same.

[dramatic music]

[people grunting]

[dramatic music]

When you're in an action film, you do wanna do stunts

and I'm not the worst in the world to do stunts,

I'm a former gymnast and a dancer, so I'm pretty good at it.

So I get a little disappointed,

like I did little in the Bond film

when I realized that the biggest stunt

I was doing in that film was to fold two aces,

it was like, "This is not right."

Do they know how good I am?

And this "Can I get a chopper scene?" You know?

So I got fulfilled with flying kung fu and wires and stuff,

it was really fun to be part of.

Bruce Lee, it was hard.

In my generation, it was very hard not to be

when you were like working class kid,

that was like, that was him, you know?

Him and Buster Keaton were unrelated though

but I can see now why I felt for both of 'em,

they have something in common,

they have a certain presence

and they have a minimalistic way of doing things

that Buster Keaton could do very little things

and all of a sudden the sky would just open, right?

And so I've always been fascinated by that,

without putting my finger on wire, wire was fascinating.

[upbeat music]

"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny."

- [Dr. Voller] And with this, I will correct them all.

- You stole it!

- Then you stole it.

- Everybody wanted their hands

on the on the brilliant scientists

that was working for the Nazis

and everybody was agreeing

that they should just shut their eyes and not talk about it.

I'm a history buff, I know quite a bit about that part.

I also know that there was not only in the States

that these things happened,

it happened in obviously in the Soviet Union,

to a degree, in UK as well.

So we did look at a lot of photos of Wernher von Braun,

in particular and it was interesting to see, you know,

that there was a certain dandiness around him,

he had a curve in his hair, cool glasses

and he was just walking around, you know, people

and working with Americans as if there was no past.

And that's shocking but it was also interesting to see that

with what kind of an ease that they just transformed

from that period to the next.

- You!

- Have we met?

- My memory's a little fuzzy, are you still a Nazi?

- I think I remember the most, obviously,

working with these fantastic people

and working with Harrison, of course, is the top thing.

I mean, normally he would just see me wherever I was

randomly far away and he would scream "There goes a Nazi!"

"Right, okay, thanks Harrison!"

That would be like a entire new crew

who didn't know the story

and everybody thought I was a Nazi, great.

So, that was his way of warming up and I liked it.

He's a teenager in his energy and everything about him,

he's a legend on so many levels, right?

For his talent, for the stuff he's done.

But he's predominantly, in my world, a legend

because he doesn't behave like a legend,

he just brings everything down to earth

and makes everybody comfortable around him

so we can make and create a scene that works.

[upbeat music]

"Hannibal."

Before we begin, you must all be warned,

nothing here is vegetarian.

- Hannibal was a very different animal.

He can be impulsive,

but rarely, it's a choice if he does it.

He's in complete, complete control.

He sees the world differently than we do,

he's like a fallen angel, he just sees the opposite.

He sees love where we see something horrifying,

he sees beauty when we see something very, very ugly.

For him, life is most interesting and most fantastic

when it's on the threshold to death.

Right in that moment,

that's something beautiful happening in his world.

So, that's obviously a coy way of thinking

but I don't necessarily have to go down that path,

I can just substitute with something else

that I find beautiful, you know?

Something I cherish

and I think that's the best way to approach it

as opposed to go down in a dark alley,

then go down in a beautiful alley, that's what he's doing.

Oh, he's way too intelligence for anyone,

I have no idea how he learned all these languages

and how to cook, play the theremin

and shoot bow and arrow to perfection, everything.

It's like he's a lifted character, right?

And, for some reason, he never got rid of his funny accent,

he didn't have time for that!

[classical music]

Well, I did it all, yeah, it's all me doing stuff,

flipping and catching an egg there.

So that's a lot of like juggling and that,

which I'm fairly good at myself.

There was things that I didn't know why I did

in the beginning and then it makes sense later.

Like as opposed to when he sniffs wine,

like everybody else goes like that,

he goes like just away from him and that,

I just did it to be interesting, to be honest,

it was just something that's like,

"That's weird that he's doing that,

let's just do it for fun" and then, in reality,

it does make sense, his nose is so sensitive,

it has to be all the way out here, right?

[suspenseful music]

- Did you just smell me?

- Difficult to avoid.

- We didn't want him to be a classical psychopath.

If that's the case, then we're gonna dive into his past,

what happened to him?

Oh, there was something and it becomes a banal story

about how that could have been solved early on

but we kind of didn't like the idea

of understanding his path,

we just wanted him to be this

and not a classical psychopath,

we want him to be a man with emotions and with empathy

but unlike the other character,

the main character of the show, Will Graham,

who has no control of his empathy,

he's just too much of that.

Hannibal has complete control when to have it

and when to give it

but they're like a yin yang situation, right?

And that was the whole idea about the show

that they would circle around it,

eventually something had to happen and so it did.

[upbeat music]

"The Hunt."

- It was a frustrating read,

it was immaculate, it was beautiful

but it was also very frustrating to read it

because obviously I had this sensation of a man

who was just cornered from everywhere

and there was nothing he could hit,

there was no one he could hit, he couldn't do anything.

And that's exactly what we set out to do.

I think that's one

of the reasons why it's a very powerful film.

- I had a lot of scenes with a little girl,

so it was important for us that she felt comfortable

and so whatever we did didn't rub off on her

because somehow she had to run around in that world

a little innocent but also know just enough

what the film was about.

So, I spent a lot of time with her, which was fun

and make me forget the situation.

Even though it was quite a harrowing experience

to watch the film,

they shouldn't really have the knowledge

of what we are doing in that sense.

I've always found it like an interesting way

for an actor to forget himself in a scene.