In recent times, movie fans around the world have experienced a twist and turning mental process because of a bad news and a good news.
The bad news is that Johnny Depp officially quit the "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3" crew due to domestic violence lawsuits.
The role of "Grindelwald", originally played by him, will be re-cast, and the film schedule has been postponed to July 15, 2022.
The good news is that Warner quickly released the news: "Grindelwald" will be an actor with the same coffee position as Depp.
In the past few days, insiders have revealed that "Uncle Pull" Max Mickelson will take over the baton.
As soon as the news came out, enthusiastic netizens made a "plucked uncle" version of Grindelwald's character poster, the aura was very emotional, it seemed that people immediately digested the impact of the role change...
Not only that, netizens also played with the terrier, laughing that the movie was going to be renamed because of Uncle Ba - no longer "Where to Find Fantastic Beasts", but "Where to Eat Fantastic Beasts", "Fantastic Beasts in the Stomach", "Fantastic Beasts in the Pot"...
If this casting news is true, my expectations for Fantastic Beasts 3 will continue to be full.
At the same time, I can't help but worry - if Uncle Ba really played Grindelwald, and his "Dumbledore" Jude Lowe, who was (engaged in) drama (Ki), would not be under a lot of pressure, and the aura would be crushed by the other party every minute...
According to incomplete statistics, Max Mickelson has played many powerful "crazy villains" in Hollywood works.
For example, in Marvel's "Doctor Strange", he played Casillas who was doing things.
In the manga, this is a very storyful character who has experienced the pain of bereavement and worshiped under the door of a gu yi mage, just so that one day he can resurrect his dead wife and children.
However, this obsession eventually led him to the madness, attributing all his resentment to Gu Yi Mage, who was later brainwashed by Dormammu in a vain attempt to gain the ability to live forever.
Unfortunately, this backstory is omitted from the film.
Just as the villains of most Marvel movies are often criticized for "facialization", what ultimately supports the role is the strong charm of the actors themselves, such as Hela played by the "Big Devil" in "Thor 3".
In Doctor Strange, although Casillas's people are scrawled, through his pre-war dialogue with Doctor Strange and The Ancient One Mage, the complex past of this character can still be seen.
It can be said that Max Mikkelson added a lot of villain charm to this role in the limited performance space.
However, when it comes to his most famous villain works, it is the American drama "Hannibal", from which the nickname of "Uncle Ba" also comes from.
Even if you haven't brushed this American drama, you must know the character of "Hannibal".
He has a super high IQ, is proficient in medicine, and is an ogre.
Prior to this, Antonio Hopkins had interpreted the role to near-perfection, and it was hard for any actor to surpass his rendition in The Silence of the Lambs.
However, "Uncle Ba" took a different path, breaking the ceiling of acting skills with strength, and interpreting a "foodie" Hannibal with more elegant behavior and a deeper and unfathomable city government in the American drama.
In this play, Hannibal is a respected psychiatrist, well-mannered and generous.
He loves classical music and has his own set of specialties on food.
Under the background of the top level of service, the uncle version of Hannibal deserves the name of "crazy batch foodie".
From an acting perspective, the focus of Max Mickelson's character is not blood and violence, but the enjoyment and pleasure hidden under the surface.
As long as the classical music sounds, uncle plucks the fire and cuts the internal organs gracefully, it will make people infinitely brain supplement "he eats people again"...
Many viewers watch Hannibal focus so intently on culinary aesthetics, and look at it and forget that he is a villain... The real decency in the play is actually "little teacup" Will.
Therefore, on the representative work of the villain's aura crushing the protagonist, the American drama "Hannibal" is definitely in line.
However, the origin of Uncle Ba's becoming a villain professional goes back even earlier , the 2006 movie "007: Vs Casino Royale".
That's right, the "man who made 007 eggs hurt" appeared again.
It is worth mentioning that this 007 villain unexpectedly "broke out of the sense of layering".
At first, he is a verbal and evil-eyed fraudster, and then he personally boards the gambling table to confront 007, incidentally and cunningly poisons him.
After discovering that the conspiracy plan was destroyed by 007, he completely revealed his fierce side and used the most primitive violent means to abuse the protagonist.
In this movie, Daniel Craig achieves the new version of 007, and Uncle Ba expands the villain's acting routine.
He and 007 were once evenly matched, and they also achieved each other with each other.
It was also from 007: Vs Casino Royale that Max Mickelson embarked on a "Hollywood villain journey.".
So, when I saw that he was going to succeed Depp in "Fantastic Beasts 3", I not only felt at ease, but even raised my expectations for the film.
The complexity and evil atmosphere of Grindelwald's character simply hit Uncle Ba's expertise.
It is worth mentioning that before becoming a villain professional, Max Mikkelsen was already a Danish national treasure actor and was known as "the sexiest man in Denmark".
His resume is different from many actors, starting as a gymnast, and then becoming a dancer for nearly a decade, Wen can sell cuteness, martial arts can split forks, and early has a body of drama characteristics.
Because of his love of acting, Max Mickelson went through a well-thought-out study at drama school and debuted as an actor at the age of 30.
For the Danish drama "The First Detachment", he won the Best Actor Award at the Danish Television Festival, and won the Danish Film Award for Best Actor and the Danish Film Critics Award for Best Actor for his starring role in the film "The End of the Road 2".
It can be said that before becoming the royal villain of Hollywood, he was already a dazzling star in Denmark.
A 2012 "Hunting" proves that his acting skills are not subject to labels.
In the film, he plays a kindergarten teacher who inexplicably bears the crime of sexually assaulting a girl, there are not many lines in the whole film, but the emotional tension is full, and people who have seen it will be touched by his performance, and quickly substitute for the protagonist's bitter state of mind.
It is also this role that makes him win the Cannes Film Emperor in one fell swoop.
Frankly speaking, asking such a powerful person to play a commercial film villain who has little room to play is a bit of an overkill.
You can even guess that one of the reasons why Uncle Ba was favored by Hollywood producers was not the labels on him, or his unique Accent Danish English, which could bring a little freshness to the blockbuster market of "villains are mostly British".
Max Mickelson has also bluntly said this: Maybe they are looking at my strange accent.
However, whenever talking about acting, Uncle Ba never lowered the performance level because the role was an assembly line villain.
He always has a set of self-contained understandings and interpretations of his roles.
So, in a superhero movie like Doctor Strange, where the scenes have been significantly cut, you can still remember Casillas, who almost brainwashed the protagonist;
In the IP where the protagonist occupies an absolute advantage such as "007", the villain he plays is still surprisingly numerous fans.
Therefore, if Uncle Ba really joins Fantastic Beasts 3, I have no doubt that the wizarding world will have another big boss that people will never forget, and he will also become the top villain across multiple IP "universes".
Think about it this way, do you think that 2022's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3" is more exciting?