Taking on James Bond

Now on to a Danish actor who is not quite a household name yet outside his own country. But make no mistake, he could well be an international supernova once the next James Bond film premieres mid November.

We are talking about 40-year-old Mads Mikkelsen, who plays the evil Le Chiffre, the chief adversary of Daniel Craig’s Secret Service Agent 007 in the upcoming “Casino Royale”.

In the 31st Toronto International Film Festival, he has two major films - Susanne Bier’s “After the Wedding” and Ole Christian Madsen’s “Prague”. In the former, he plays Jacob, a Dane who went to India as a youth and never left, while the evocative “Prague” has him in the role of a man learning to reconcile himself with the slow break-up of his 14-year-old marriage.

It is pretty clear that Mikkelsen is an actor with tremendous screen presence and star appeal. So don’t be surprised if he upstages James Bond a bit when the much-awaited showdown does unfold on movie screens across the world in a couple of months from now.

— IANS

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