The show finished filming a while ago now. Has Hannibal Lecter slipped away from you, or will there always be a cannibal therapist inside of Mads Mikkelsen?
Mads Mikkelsen: I think I’ve spent too much time with this character. This is the most I’ve ever spent with a single character. He’ll be with me probably forever, somehow. Only as a character though. He’s not going to take over my personality. [Laughs.] But I’ve thoroughly enjoyed… it was such a gift to play that character for three seasons with this brilliant, brilliant writer and his brilliant, brilliant actors around me. So that’s going to linger with me forever, in a good way though.
How did Hannibal evolve for you, over the series? At point were you surprised by the character, as opposed to how he was introduced to you?
I guess the why that Bryan [Fuller] writes in general is quite surprising to all of us. In terms of how he developed, pretty much as I had hoped to. Pretty much as becoming… even though it’s more and more horrendous what he does, he also becomes more and more human in our eyes, I guess. To the degree that he becomes a man who has empathy, who is an empathic person, and does have normality in his life even though it’s flipsided, right?
So this is what I was hoping for, the way we’d go with it. I was just curious when it would happen and what kind of situation it would happen in. But basically we wanted to just humanize him, to a degree, that he didn’t just become a complete outrageous psychopath that we were watching for three years.
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