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SHOWBIZ: Hannibal the psychiatrist is in
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Infamous cannibal Hannibal Lector returns
in a new TV series, starring Mads Mikkelsen in the role made famous by Anthony
Hopkins.
FOR the new crime-horror TV show Hannibal,
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen steps into the shoes ofAcademy Award winner Sir
Anthony Hopkins to play the iconic role of Dr Hannibal Lecter, the serial
killer who was first introduced to cinema audiences in the blockbuster Silence
of the Lambs (1991).
However, the TV show is set in the time
period before the demented killer’s incarceration, when Dr Lecter is still in
practise as a psychiatrist.
Says Mikkelsen: “He (Hopkins) did a
fantastic job. We’re starting out in a different situation. The character is a
practicing psychiatrist (for the TV show). He’s out there in real life, so he
can’t play all his cards. He has to play them differently,” Mikkelsen says.
“So you might see some different scenes than you saw with Anthony.
But yes, he did it to perfection, so we’re not trying to copy that.”
Hannibal, which premiered in the United
States on April 4, also stars Hugh Dancy as Will Graham, a criminal profiler
and hunter of serial killers; Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford, head of
behavioural sciences at the FBI and Graham’s boss; and Caroline Dhavernas as Dr
Alana Bloom, a psychology professor and consultant profiler for the FBI.
Below, Mikkelsen talks more about his role.
Is Hannibal a hero-villain, or antihero?
I don’t think Hannibal sees himself as a
hero and doesn’t see heroes or villains in his life. He sees himself as a man
who’s in love with the finer things in life. He hates everything that’s banal.
Anything banal is ridiculous. For him, life’s beauty is on the threshold of
death and that’s what he’s exploring.
Is it more fun to play an evil character?
I don’t see him as bad. I try as much as I
can to make him the good guy in my world. I always thought that they go hand in
hand, the good guys and the bad guys. You have to find the flaws, the little
holes, the little mistakes they’re doing, the good guys, and you have to find
something you recognise in the bad guy.
You have to find something that you can
humanise in him. So it’s always been our task as actors. It’s two sides of the
same coin for me. Obviously this guy has a very black side. But I’m trying to
raise him as if he’s seeing the world in a different way.
What is it about Hannibal that viewers can
relate to?
I don’t know yet, but we’re trying to make
his heart beat a little more. He’s famous for having a pulse of 80 or 70 when
he kills people. But it’s a choice. He can also choose to make it beat a little
faster if there’s something he can gain from that.
Your co-star Laurence Fishburne called your
portrayal of Hannibal sexy. What do you think?
Looking back, and if I’m allowed to say it
as a man, yes, Anthony Hopkins was sexy and enigmatic. So of course there is
something sexy about that and we’ll always be fascinated with that. We’ve been
fascinated with what on earth was going on inside the head of Hitler and
Stalin. We don’t want to be like them, but we want to understand it.
In playing your role, how do you relate to
evil individuals and what they do?
I have to substitute whatever he’s doing
with something else. Because what we find absurd and abnormal is quite normal
for this character. So I have to substitute it with something recognisable.
What’s Hannibal’s backstory?
According to the books, he’s from
Lithuania. He was adopted by his uncle Robert and went to boarding school in
Paris. From there, he probably went to England to study. In the sense that
being a lover of the fine arts, he’s also a lover of the language, the British
language. So he’s leaning towards what a Brit would do, even though he’s not a
Brit.
Did you read the books when you joined the
show?
I read the books just to get some
inspiration. But for the show,we found some things we could use from the books
and some things we couldn’t.
Did you say yes immediately to the role or
was it something that you had to think about?
I read it, I heard about it. Doing TV is
obviously something that will make your calendar look different than normal. So
that was an issue. But I had a meeting that was supposed to be 10 minutes, with
Bryan Fuller, who was going to pitch the whole thing and after two hours he was
still going on. And he was just so enigmatic and energetic.
Do you feel that Hannibal has an
appreciation of Will Graham, the profiler?
Oh yes. Not only that, he sees himself
there. He sees an opportunity of something as pure as himself and the young man
doesn’t yet know his potential.
Do we see a little more of a human side to
him in the series than in the film?
I think Anthony Hopkins achieved that as
well, even though he was captured and then in the second film, when he’s out in
Florence. You see his love of two certain things. You see his warmth and
hopefully, you will see that in the series as well. He could not be persuaded
on anything if he didn’t have that in him.
What TV shows do you like watching?
I don’t watch a lot of TV. If I do, I tend
to watch sports. But I have jumped into the big pot of Walking Dead here with
my son and I’ve found it so interesting; if you get a little fed up with some
of the characters, you’re cheering for the zombies.
