Bond villain Mads Mikkelsen in the cold

cannes - - Cannes cheered tonight for Bond villain Mads Mikkelsen, who plays the leading role in the survival drama Arctic. 'By far the most difficult recordings I've ever done,' said 52-year-old Dane about filming in the polar cold in Iceland.

Mads Mikkelsen, who gained world fame as Bond villain Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (2006) plays in Arctic a pilot who crashed with his plane in the Arctic Circle. We hardly know anything about his past, he has virtually no text, as a film viewer we mainly follow his survival routine. That is broken if the rescue helicopter with which he finally makes contact, also crashes.

The actor said in Cannes that he had refrained from doing so while he was playing. 'That says a lot, because I have done a lot of crazy things in my life. Nature, the wind, the snow, the cold; I was in every scene and we had long days. It was a war of attrition, not only physically, but also emotionally. I constantly balanced emotionally on the edge. '

Arctic does not make a Hollywood hero of Mikkelsen character, but a survivor who perseveres. Debuting filmmaker Joe Penna, also known as YouTube star MysteryGuitarMan, wrote and directed the film and knows how to tell a lot without words. The icy landscape, the inexorable elements and the raw nature underline the nullity of the protagonist in Arctic. 'Sometimes there was a mile between where the camera was and where Mads walked: then he was only a dot of 35 pixels. Really, I counted them ', Penna told the journal Variety.

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