It may have been a good thing that Mads Mikkelsen and Daniel Craig never did the torture scene sequence on that day, as the Casino Royale co-stars were known to go a bit overboard with what they had planned for that moment. Just fuck home.’ And then you took a drag of your cigarette, and you said the famous words, ‘Who did you fuck? I did six castings for this.’ That was our first meeting. You’ve got the part, I don’t want to see you. I was a little confused, and he came back and said, ‘Mads, you don’t understand. And then Martin Campbell came up, and he was just so stressed out, walked up to me, and said ‘Hi Mads. So we had a cigarette, all of a sudden, together. At that point, I’m not sure I can say this, you were smoking. So I was just waiting around and waiting around, and you were casting the Bond girls. But I was supposed to do the casting, the torture scene, with you. You might remember at a fitting, our costume fitting, I was there and they dressed me in a tuxedo. Though, that phase in his career did also land him some amazing voice gigs, as Mikkelsen was the Danish dub voice of Randall Boggs and Chick Hicks, for Pixar’s Monsters Inc. Working on films such as Antoine Fuqua’s King Arthur, as well as being a part of Nicolas Winding-Refn’s Pusher trilogy, it was only a matter of time before audiences recognized the man for the talent that he was. I got a hold of those scenes somehow, and I went and did the audition.īelieve it or not, before his big role in Casino Royale, Mads Mikkelsen’s career was still a pretty interesting beast to follow. I mean, this is the worst way of blowing it. But that is obviously a complete disaster if it ends up on the front page of The Sun. I think somebody who cleaned up that plane had no idea what it was and threw it out.

I realized, Oh, no, and I went back, and they wouldn’t let me in.

I am the reason why they put your name on the script. I fell asleep on the plane, and I forgot it on the plane. I got the script before I did the casting, and it was the first time I got a script where your name is printed on every page. But as you’ll see in the story below, the man got the job done, and made sure to secure himself for his audition: And as he told Vulture the story, Mads Mikkelsen admitted that he totally panicked over this happening. Even in the beginning of the 007 reboot, the fact that a script for Casino Royale was even circulating in the wild is something that could have been major.

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