“Well, now the course has changed,” Mads Mikkelsen said. “He won the suit… let’s see if he comes back.”
, in which she identified herself as a domestic abuse survivor, but did not name Depp as her abuser. Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages in her countersuit against Depp.)
In addition to suggesting Depp’s return to the role, Mikkelsen discussed his alternate approach to their shared character. “I’m a big fan of Johnny,” he said. “I think he’s an amazing actor, I think he did a fantastic job. Having said that, I could not copy it. There was no way I could just copy it, because it’s so much him. It would be creative suicide. So, we had to come up with something else, something that was mine, and build a bridge between him and me.