Mikkelsen is on an extended hot run, and now Fantastic Beasts beckon…
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Be it Europe (The Hunt, Pusher) or Hollywood (Rogue One, Doctor Strange), Danish star Mads Mikkelsen is in that career sweet spot. Incoming in sci-fi Chaos Walking and award-winner Another Round, the 55-year-old will also take over from Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts. Spectacle doesn’t scare him, it seems. “Sometimes you want to go out and have a sword in your hand!”