Mads Mikkelsen ‘still working things out’ as he breaks silence on replacing Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts

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Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts 3, saying it happened in ‘sad circumstances’.Johnny, 57, was asked to leave the role – which he has played since 2018 – after losing his libel trial against The Sun’s publishers News Group Newspaper over an article which called him a ‘wife beater’.The Danish actor, 54, is stepping in as Gellert Grindelwald for the third film in the series.Mads, who had long been rumoured for the part, is ‘still working out’ how to ‘bridge’ his performance with the former star’s while also putting his own stamp on it.He told EW.com: ‘We’re still working it out.‘There has to be a bridge between what Johnny did and what I’m going to do, and at the same time I also have to make it my own.’He added that there will be ‘a few links’.