Mads Mikkelsen speaks up on replacing Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts
Mads Mikkelsen speaks up on replacing Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts
(Web Desk) - Mads Mikkelsen has broken his silence about replacing Johnny Depp in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts 3 movie. The actor was cast as Gellert Grindelwald after Warner Bros. requested that Depp resign from the franchise.
This decision was made after Depp lost his libel lawsuit in regards to an article that alleged he had been physically abusive towards his ex-wife, actor Amber Heard.
Opening up about his initial reaction to landing the part under such difficult circumstances, Mikkelsen said, “Job-wise, it’s obviously super interesting and nice. It’s also a shocker that it came after what happened, which is just super sad. I wish both of them the best. These are sad circumstances. I hope both of them will be back in the saddle again really soon.”
Taking to Instagram with a statement of his own, Depp wrote that he had been asked to resign from the part of Grindelwald, and that he had ‘respected and agreed to that request’.
On November 26, following widespread reports of the recasting, Warner Bros. confirmed that Mikkelsen was indeed on board to play the villainous wizard.
