![]() ![]() You might have been in that situation yourself sometimes.” Instead, Mikkelsen made him “an idiot” whose loser traits are at first annoying, then heartbreaking: “I’m not into the ‘hair falling in your eyes, be cute in a corner.’ Not me. “To combine it-to do something real and also be a cutie pie-I don’t really find it interesting,” he says he could have done it with his breakout role as a drug dealer named Tonny in Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher, but he felt that to do so would have made the character less riveting and less believable. Denmark does have its “rough guys,” he adds-its Marlon Brandos and James Deans-but those roles don’t interest him as much as truer-to-life characters. Movies about World War II of course depict Nazis, Mikkelsen says, but generally in a hyper-realistic way, and not as wild megalomaniacs. Where American blockbusters, by and large, love to blast a gorge between good guys and bad guys, Danish films are often more ambiguous. ![]() His approach feels un-American, in a good way. ![]()
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