Your versatility is very impressive. You’ve played all these bad guys, but also Igor Stravinsky, wartime heroes, priests and the bringer of the Enlightenment in A Royal Affair. How do you choose your projects?
Mads Mikkelsen: I’ve always made choices based on what I like, and somehow this has become a career. There’s no point in aiming for a goal that you can never reach, so I just take it one project at a time. Every opportunity is different. The main thing is I have to be able to communicate with the director. We don’t always have to agree, but we do have to communicate well. And I have to be intrigued by the story. There’s got to be a flame, a fire. [x]