Mads Mikkelsen Talks Losing the Script for ‘Casino Royale’ on a Plane and Working With ‘Partner in Crime’ Daniel Craig: ‘I Tickled His B—s With a Rope’
variety.comMarta Balaga Don’t trust Mads Mikkelsen with your script. “‘Casino Royale’ was the first screenplay with my name on every single page.
Which also means that if you lose it, it’s on you. I got on a plane, started to read it and I fell asleep. Then I got out and just left it there,” he told the stunned audience at the Zurich Film Festival. “I was lucky some cleaning person threw it away and didn’t know what it was.
That could have been the end of my career, right then.” In Martin Campbell’s 2006 smash that marked Daniel Craig’s debut as 007, Mikkelsen went on to play Le Chiffre. “The ‘smartest’ Bond villain?
He lost $100 million to a man who couldn’t play poker. Not that smart.” “I had never watched a Bond movie up to that point and of course I lied about it.
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