Mads Mikkelsen is no stranger to a franchise, having appeared in the likes of James Bond and Star Wars, but it turns out that his Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny role hit a bit differently.
It's not because it's his first on-screen role as a Nazi, playing the villain of the piece Jürgen Voller. It's because of all the franchises he's done, Indiana Jones is the one series that he felt a personal connection with.
Talking at the press conference for Indiana Jones 5, which Digital Spy attended, Mikkelsen joked: "It's not my first franchise, but it's the first one I grew up with. I've been lying in all the other interviews when I did Bond and Star Wars. I always said I saw them, but I didn't."
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Of course, Mikkelsen doesn't really mean that, but he did expand on what made Indiana Jones so special for him.
"I remember my brother and I, we [rented] the film together with five other films, and we ended up watching Indiana Jones five times and not the other ones. And so, it is true to say that this shaped our generation," he recalled.
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"I have plenty of friends who are film directors specifically because of that one film. So obviously, sitting there as a kid and just wanting to be him or be up there and not wanting to be an actor at all, it is an enormous honour to be, 42 years later, part of this world."
We don't know yet what Voller's (likely devious) plan is in the new movie, but producer Frank Marshall did recently confirm fan theories that time travel is involved somehow.
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The movie also marks Harrison Ford's final outing as Indiana Jones, and writer/director James Mangold has compared Dial of Destiny to his work on Logan, which wrapped up Wolverine's story.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is released in UK cinemas on June 28 and in US cinemas on June 30.
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