Mads Mikkelsen talks stepping in for Johnny Depp in ‘Fantastic Beasts,’ sharing 'Another Round' with DiCaprio
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Mads Mikkelsen gave a master class in do-it-yourself bathroom destruction for his thriller, "Riders of Justice."
The Danish actor, 55, smashed his own forehead into an actual bathroom mirror ("that was a little painful") before wrecking the joint for cameras, until he came to a seemingly paltry towel rack.
"That towel thingy, it looked like I could rip it out, but I couldn't. I kicked it, pulled it. It didn't move," says Mikkelsen.
But it's going to take more than a stubborn towel rack to even temporarily derail the unstoppable Mikkelsen, who starred as NBC's titular "Hannibal" serial killer. The rack miscue made it into "Riders of Justice" – "We kept that because of the clumsiness, that was interesting," says Mikkelsen.
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