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No./ 17 “Obviously, there’s a good reason why I am cast as the villain”

IF YOU ONLY watched his American movies, you might imagine Mads Mikkelsen tiring of bad-guy roles. But on his home turf of Denmark, the former Bond and Marvel villain has ample opportunity to flex his other acting muscles. Especially in Thomas Vinterberg’s bold new booze-fuelled drama : here Mikkelsen plays one of four schoolteachers who take part in an experiment to see if permanent inebriation can dispel their midlife ennui and make

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