He decides that he wants to be part of it.” “He so desperately wants to become part of something that he hates, nobility,” Mikkelsen told IndieWire during a recent interview in Los Angeles. In his fifth Danish Oscar entry, “ The Promised Land,” a Nordic pioneer Western from Nicolaj Arcel (Mikkelsen’s director from a decade ago on the nominated “A Royal Affair”), Mikkelsen delivers an almost silent, stoic, physical performance as captain-turned-potato-farmer Ludvig von Kahlen as he tries to tame the 18th-century Danish heath.Īs the bastard son of a nobleman and his maid, making something of a piece of turf is the only way for the veteran to move up into the upper class. (Oscar-winner “Another Round,” “Arctic,” Oscar-nominated “The Hunt,” and “After the Wedding”).
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