Darkly comic revenge-thriller is released May 14.
“But there’s a little bit more to his story.
He’s obviously a PTSD sufferer and he finds himself having a hard time being around normal people.
Mads Mikkelsen in ‘Riders of Justice’.Credit: Kasper Tuxen/Magnet Releasing
Luckily the people in the film are not very normal.”
“He’s a very unique filmmaker,” says the actor.
“He’s very special.
He’s very prophetic.
He talks about very big stuff in life.
Destiny, in this case.
But he feels it would be too pretentious to just do that in a realistic film.
So he wants to [add] insanity.
That way he feels he can get the message out in a better way.”
The pair first met shortly before their initial collaboration on 2000’sFlickering Lights.
“We ended up in a fight.
It was a party and we just ended up fighting on the staircase.
So that was the first time I met him.
A couple of months later he asked me to be in his film.
I think the fight was kind of my audition.
He’s calmed down a lot.”
Riders of Justicecostars Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, and Lars Brygmann, among others.
The film opens in select theaters May 14 is available on VOD May 21.
