Mads Mikkelsen talks stepping in for Johnny Depp in ‘Fantastic Beasts,’ sharing ‘Another Round’ with DiCaprio

But it’s going to take more than a stubborn towel rack to even temporarily derail the unstoppable career momentum for NBC’s titular “Hannibal” serial killer.

“I’m just this guy trying to fill out these shoes that somebody else has been wearing,” says Mikkelsen, speaking via Zoom call on a filming break in Spain.

“It’s always tricky to make a remake, especially something as recent as this,” says Mikkelsen.

“Beards grow extremely fast on me, that took two months,” he says, adding that packing muscle onto his normally lean six-foot frame was tougher.

The bathroom blow-up and following breakdown are a result of “old school” Markus refusing to deal with his own pain.

But the unstoppable actor found he could only handle a finite number of headbutts.

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