Fantastic Beasts 3: ‘It's creative suicide to copy masterful Johnny Depp’ – Mads Mikkelsen
Last year, Johnny Depp lost his libel case against The Sun newspaper who had referred to him as “a wife beater”, an accusation he strongly denies. Following the UK High Court’s ruling, the 58-year-old was asked by Warner Bros to resign from Fantastic Beasts 3 after shooting just one scene. The Grindelwald star accepted and has since been replaced by Mads Mikkelsen as the Harry Potter prequels villain.
Now in a new interview with The Sunday Times, Mads has admitted that he wishes he could have spoken to Johnny Depp about the Grindelwald role.
The Danish actor said: “I mean, obviously, they were going to do the film, and obviously he was not involved anymore.
“But I didn’t have a dog in that fight. And I don’t know what happened [in his private life], and I don’t know if it was fair, him losing the job.
“But I just knew that the show was going on, and I would’ve loved to have talked to him about it if I had the chance, but I just don’t know him in that sense.”
