"I got to shag his wife and kill him, so let's see what happens in the game": 26 years before becoming David Bateson's target in Hitman, Mads Mikkelsen worked with the Agent 47 actor on a Danish short film
Call it even this time?

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:He's not returning for Death♏ Stranding 2, but Mads Mikkelsen's latest video game role sees him play James Bond villain Le Chiffre as a new target for Agent 47 in Hitman: World of Assassination. In a recent Q&A following Hitman studio , Mikkelsen and Agent 47 actor David Bateson discussed the fringe project that first brought them together, which ironically saw Mikkelse♉n kill Bateson's character.
"Mads and I wღorked on a small film together back in [1998, 99]," Bates♋on begins.
"94," Mikkelsen replies.
That film is , a short adaptation based on Edgar Lee Master's 1915 poem collection, the Spoon River Anthology. Online records indicate Bateson was right about the release date: 1999. The whole thing is on YouTube here:
"Oh my god. Who am I again?" Bateson continues. "Anyway, you were at drama school, 🎶which is scary. We did this little movie. It was a love triangle. He was having an affair with my wife. The short story is this: it's set in 1895, I go away hunting, he turns up to seduce my wife. She is putting sheets out on the line, and he starts sneaking up and fumbling around with my wife.
"Anyway, he did something – I'm watching this scene, he's about 25, 30 feet away from me, I'm standing next to the director, we've got a monitor in front of us and I'm watching it live. He goes and leans against this pole as she's putting these sheets on the washing line, and he's like, waiting for ya, I'll wait. And then he does 𝓡something that totally rocked my boa🦂t. He starts spitting – because he's such a romantic guy. He's looking at her, his arms are folded, and he just [spits]. And he does this a couple of times.
"So I lean across to the director, and I'm going, wait a minute. That's not ve♐ry sexy. And I'm looking at him doing it live, and then I look at the monitor,⛦ and something was insane. It was brilliant. It was sexy and raw and just, oh, I'm gonna, I'll let you finish and then you're mine. The point is, I leaned across to the director, during the take, and I whispered to him, does Mads know what he's doing? And the director said, 'I don't think so, but don't tell him.' Because it was insanely good."
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"It worked on your wife though▨," Mikkelsen🦩 cuts in.
"I'm rather pleased about that be꧒cause she's here tonight," Bateson responds. "That was maybe a sign of what was to c🦩ome. And I've waited 100 years to tell you this story of the talent I saw that day when he was still studying at drama school. Give it up for Mads."
Mikkelsen says he previously had "no idea" that Bateson played Agent 47: "I walked into the room today and the guys were pitching me the game and I was watching it, and all of the sudden, the hitman comes in and I'm like, wait a second, is that David? So yeah, it was my very first thing I ever did, and I got to shag his wife and kill him, s𝓰o let's see what happens in this game."
"Yeah, you killed me," Bateson says. "Asshole."

Austin has 😼been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career♋-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.
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