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Mads Mikkelsen has had an incredible acting career over the years with several iconic roles to his name. Starring in movies likeHannibal, Casino Royale,and,King Arthur,Mikkelsen solidified himself as a serious actor.
Talking about starring in the 2010 movieClash of the Titans,Mikkelsen called it a“summer camp”compared to a movie he starred in a year earlier. Portraying the role of a One-Eye, Mikkelsen was very cold while working inValhalla Rising.
Clash of the TitansWas A Cakewalk For Mads Mikkelsen
Although Mikkelsen had some role in the 2010 filmClash of the Titans,Mikkelsen observed that the set of the movie was very warm. Comparing the film to his 2009 epicValhalla Rising(which was shot in very cold weather), Mikkelsen felt like he was at a summer camp!
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In an interview with theDaily Record,Mads Mikkelsen talked about how he worked for the 2010 filmClash of the Titans.Stating that he and the other actors had formed a great bond, Mikkelsen had fun working on the sets of the 2010 film.
“Making Clash Of The Titans was also fun but it was a lot warmer. It was mostly filmed in Tenerife, where we did all the battles with the giant scorpions. It was great. We were either working or drinking beers in the evening, not bad. We were basically spending 24 hours together and became a tight group – Sam, Nicholas Hoult, Liam Cunningham, all of us.”
On the other hand, theHannibalactor talked about how a year before, he was stuck with Nicolas Winding Refn in the Scottish highlands shooting a Viking movie!
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When Mads Mikkelsen Spent A Summer In Scotland
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While comparing the fun that he had on the sets ofClash of the Titans,Mads Mikkelsentalked about the time he was in Scotland shootingValhalla Rising.Despite stating that he is very proud of the movie, Mikkelsen was also close to losing his life while shooting.
“I’m very proud of Valhalla Rising. I worked with Nicolas before, but for this we had a completely different scenario. He is a master director. Any time he calls, I’ll be there for him. But it was a tough shoot, it was freezing cold and if we were not bruised up, we were getting hammered by the weather every day.”
He further continued,
“The fight scenes were the hardest. They took three days of shooting and everyone else was in insulated gear while we were there kicking the hell out of each other. That was one of those days you look at your birth certificate and say, ‘Man, I’m too old for this.'”
Despite the best efforts and the freezing cold, the 2009 film received a rating of 6/10 on IMDB and 71% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film, however, gave Mikkelsen a newfound fame that helped him further in Hollywood.Valhalla Risingis available to stream on AMC+ in the U.S.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
