Mads Mikkelsen says copying Johnny Depp in ‘Fantastic Beasts’ would be “creative suicide”

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Fantastic Beasts, saying that copying his character would be “creative suicide”.The Hannibal actor opened up about taking over the role of Gellert Grindelwald, after Depp had played the antagonist in the Harry Potter spin-off franchise for two films.“Nobody’s interested in me going in there and trying to copy anything, that would be creative suicide immediately, especially when it’s been done before and masterfully,” Mikkelsen recently told Collider.“So everybody’s expecting us to find a different path.

Having said that, we need a bridge between what he did and what I’m gonna do, so those bridges you have to find together, whether it’s a certain look, whether it’s a certain attitude in certain situations, but you have to make it your own.He.