I haven’t seen this, but am looking forward to seeing it. Mads is the only actor I’m familiar with.....he is actually my favorite actor. I will watch a film he’s in even if it’s not one that interests me.
@@heidimeigs3109 that's fair. Even if you dont enjoy the film, you can enjoy the talent of the actors and the hard work put behind the film. Plus Mads is just a fucking great guy inside and out, so
How comfortable can you be with a journalist you can't trust beyond superficial, cursory information because they can't even be bothered to learn how to pronounce your name properly and they also have done ZERO background research on you so instead of asking in-depth questions they're asking you, "so were you a dancer?" (I am a journalist and it's embarrassing to watch the media in my entire country be unable to take 4 secs to listen to Mads say his name so they don't sound uneducated or willfully ignorant.) After 20 years in the acting business in America and now in every major Hollywood franchise except Mission Impossible, this is disrespectful.
THANK YOU omg. And it's not as if there aren't recordings of him saying his name freaking everywhere. And it's Mee-gul-sun not Mykk-el-son. But I'm just a certified TEFL and a former tv show host in the business and a current journalist, so wtf do I know. LOL
@@RoxyWrites I believe he pronounces his own name like Mass Mickelsen (like nickle but with an m and sen) I believe ppl say Mads just bc American interpretation but omg I don't understand why ppl can't look it up and instead said MODS?? Its also a lil harder bc he never corrects anyone🥲 Also the way he looked at the camera when she said Mods😭🙏🏻
@@BloodyRose206 I hear you. ☺ re using 'nickle' as the pronunciation.. not quite. The "i" in Northern EU (Germany, Nordics) is not pronounced by anyone in Europe the way English speakers use it, neither when spoken as the alphabet character, nor within spoken words. I'm being specific about this FYI bc I'm a certified TEFL teacher for business and general, have also studied how the brain uses native speaking language to interpret what the ear hears (which may not be accurate), and I have spent time understanding the difference between the English and Dansk alphabets (they are very different). I've also listened to Mads say his name multiple times and broken down the implied declension and the phonetics translation. That said, slowed down, using the phonetics that Native English speaking brains are familiar with hearing, it's actually *Mæss* said quickly, pronounced almost with a Latin-style "ae" (a declension also called a dipthong). So, it's not Mess, not Mass with a long a and not Maahhs or Mods or Mads. (Though I admit the way Hideo Kojima-san says "Mads-san" is very cute and forgivable despite the mispronunciation).😂 The challenge is that the Dansk alphabet does not directly equate to the native English speaking alphabet. Meaning, there are some combinations of letters and some pronunciations that do not translate at all to anything English speakers are familiar with because we don't have training in those pronunciations or letters/combinations. It's similar to how the "i" in the Northern European countries' alphabet is always said "ee" when pronouncing the letter itself and also when used in words or names, for example, in Mikkelsen). So it's (Mee-gul-Sun for the English phonetic translation). The "i" is never pronounced in Northern Europe the way Americans pronounce it in words like fickle, nickle, lid, wish, give, live, etc. And it's also not pronounced as an "I" as in "I am" English does not actually have an equivalent for that letter, except in the pronunciation of our hard "e" sound. Similar analogy.. you'll find in North America, that no one has the Native Nation "glottle-stop" equivalent alphabetic character in their language as the Lakota, Hopi, Diné (Navajo), etc. Sometimes, there just isn't an equivalent letter or declension for something so when you listen to it through a filter of being an English-speaker, your brain tries to find something familiar to use as a guideline, which becomes confusing. That's the drawback of English speakers trying to pronounce or communicate Mad's name, in actual pronunciation, the way he, and other Dansk speakers would say it. This is also why learning a different language is hard. There are sounds and alphabet characters you've never heard before, used in ways you've never "thought in" bc the brain thinks and processes in language terms.
@@RoxyWrites True true, I do like the Mee-gul-sun analogy, English is weird with accents and there are so many ways to pronounce things depending on where you live so its hard to spell out pronunciation😅 with Spanish pronunciation Mee-gul-sun is more dramatic so I did nickel, I've seem some ppl say Migglesen with the K softly spoken in it so Mikglesen Mee-kg (kul)-sun (hope that makes sense) I feel like easiest why to rlly know is just listening to him saying his name, spelling pronunciation is just a pain lol; but I do like Mee-gul-sun in some areas
@@BloodyRose206 Yeah, English is a pita in many ways bc it contains so many other root languages, including the Germanics. I'm not surprised you've heard partial k and partial g, because the "kk" *is* almost a "gk" sound when the Danes pronounce it. The other issue between the languages is that most Northern Europeans, certainly the Danish, speak compactly when they pronounce vowels and consonants, where as most of the American English culture drags our A's and most of our other letters, too for about 5 days whereas it takes a Dane about 5 seconds in comparison to say the same thing. That makes breaking it all down harder to hear. But I agree about listening to him say his name. How someone pronounces their name is how it's pronounced which differs from the perspective of things like poe-tay-toe or poe-tah-toe. The potato is not a person or a country, and in contrast a human being's name would be more accurately pronounced in the way that they and their family say it.
There is wonderful information shared by Vinterberg and Mikkelsen in this interview, but omgoodness Katie saying "Maahdds??" What is she saying? Is there a single journalist in this entire country besides myself (former news reporter, now ent journo) that can pronounce this actor's name properly?!! I really need to rant here for just a sec, bear with me . . . This is so..SO disrespectful! After this actor has had 20 years in American movies and now a role in every major Hollywood franchise except for Mission Impossible, do not tell me that you cannot take 4 secs to listen to Mads Mikkelsen say his name! You are interviewing two of the most known international actors and directors on this planet and you don't do your RESEARCH? (Dogme95 Manifesto: that was Vinterberg and Von Trier!] You ask the actor, "were you a dancer?" Excuse me while my head explodes. ...I'm sorry, in this business you NEVER interview anyone who is the lead of an OSCAR-winning movie or a well-known name without doing a minimum of 10 mins of background research so that you can ask real questions that have depth!, and that small amount of research would only be that small because you were asked to do it on the fly, step in for someone else. No, normal research for this kind of an interview is hours! omg, my country makes my head explode daily. At least you can hear Thomas Vinterberg say Mads' last name properly (Mee-gul-Sun), thank all that's green! #MadsMikkelsen pronounces his name [Mæs Mee-gul-Sun]. Notice that the moderator, Chris who wasn't interviewing, actually says Mads' name properly! (omg Thank you!) I'm sorry to rant about this, but this is embarrassing to the country you're from (and if Katie is not from the U.S. then it's embarrassing to the country she *is* from!) ...I know it's bad form to criticize another journalist but ffs people, do you understand that when you come to a conversation, interview, interaction with someone who is Scandinavian AND famous, they have to go out of their way to "balance" the conversation. If you don't understand what that means, do some RESEARCH.
I get your point, but I think you put too much into it. Even Thomas Vinterberg pronounced it as MaDs in this video though he normally (of course) pronounces it the danish way as Mas, when he's speaking danish. I think it's quite normal to pronounce a name "the english way" when you're speaking english. And most importantly, I don't think Mads really cares. But I get your frustration about her lack of research in general.
@@LMoneL To your comment "You put too much into it" This is exactly my point about Nordic countries versus say elitist American culture that thinks it's okay to pronounce someone's name however they feel like it. That attitude is what has the U.S. in the current position it's in economically: 'oh we'll just do whatever we want without regard for basic manners and courtesy and people will just have to deal with it.'. Thank you for amplifying the underlying point I was making about disrespect. I can hardly, I suppose, expect anyone outside the journalistic profession to understand how much more important it is for those of us inside this profession, or in broadcast, to use common courtesy. Your point of view is one of willful ignorance, laziness, and elitism. Entitlement makes us think that good enough is okay and that it's fine to disrespect someone at the most basic level. People who are courteous also do not outwardly get bent when someone disrespects them and celebrities who have a grip on reality do go out of their way to give wide latitude to Americans who have no class, courtesy, education, or manners (sadly that describes a lot of the Western culture). Let me explain what this has to do with pronunciation: The words tomato and potato are often pronounced differently. In fact we make a lot of jokes about it. However, when you are saying someone's name you do not change the pronunciation of the name to something else when you go from America to a foreign country or from Britain to another country. If Sir Anthony Hopkins visits Japan or China they do not change the pronunciation of his name to make it sound like it's Japanese or Chinese, no they make an attempt to say the name as closely as he says it, because that's his name. (Like Hopkins, Mads is also a knight - he's actually a knight in 2 countries). In any case, a name is not the same as the label for an inanimate object. But, in our entitlement in the West, we erroneously imagine that it's fine. It's not. Because Hr. Mikkelsen(R) comes from a Nordic country, there is an underlying egalitarian structure that governs the law of behavior for that culture. This has satirically been referenced as the Jante Law (Janteloven), which is not the actual name for those underlying governing rules. And pointing back to my earlier comment about balancing a conversation that also comes into play. He would be damaging the conversation from his Nordic point of view to correct the interviewer. By the way, she also mispronounces Thomas's name, just not as badly. Mikkelsen is also twice-knighted and his public behavior is a reflection of 2 countries investing those titles in him. And just because someone doesn't correct you when you're wrong in front of millions of people doesn't mean it doesn't bother you that the interviewer has so little respect for you or for their profession. And it doesn't mean it doesn't demonstrate how elitist is the interviewer's own culture and pov.
@@RoxyWrites Great. That's your opinon, and I have mine. As a dane myself, I have never met anyone here who would freak out because an american (or anyone else) would pronounce our names a bit wrong. Life is too short for getting angry about that. We have bigger problems in this world. Btw I found this interview with him from national post 2013: . "Let’s get the name out of the way first. It’s pronounced “Mass,” say 47-year-old Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. Although he’s used to hearing “Mads.” “I don’t mind,” he adds with a smile. “I think it sounds kind of cool.” nationalpost.com/entertainment/movies/its-a-mads-world-even-if-mikkelsen-often-has-his-first-name-mispronounced
@@LMoneL I have seen the interview that everyone jumps up and down about it like you're doing now. Doesn't change the disrespect is real. Just means he's better at dealing with the disprespect (yours and everyone else's) than others are. And he's looking for the positive in a large population of uneducated people who are mispronouncing his name. But why would anyone have to deal with that? If Sir Anthony Hopkins doesn't have to deal with it why should Mikkelsen? And why should anyone have to DEFEND being disrespectful as you're doing? You've deflected everything that I said using a single instance among thousands of interviews, and I won't argue all the factual points again that I already stated which you chose to ignore, it would be as much a waste of time as Mads trying to correct every interviewer who has every mispronounced his name... which is exactly why he doesn't do it. Willful ignorance can't be taught. BTW, consider that when people are interviewed about coming to terms with an untenable effect of having a name as a celebrity that 1/2 the world is too lazy to pronounce, it would be counter to his culture to say "it really bugs me" ..of course he's not going to say that! That's not his culture nor his personality. Part of being a celebrity with tenure is to be agreeable and to bring balance to a conversation. You'll also find that's the only occurrence of him saying something like that when an interviewer asks him about his name among thousands and thousands of interviews where he does not correct the interviewer at all because he knows it will take away from the balance of the conversation if he does. You'll also notice that the Moderator of this Q&A actually pronounces Mads name as it is actually said even though the interviewer doesn't. At least he's has some basic sense. PS - No, most of what I said was not "opinion" it was fact. Opinion is anecdotal evidence. Your citation proves my point directly: cultural balance... i.e., "You are not to think you're anything special" (satirically referenced as Jante Law but with no less weight and one Mads has been quoted as saying in interviews as recently as 2021). Seen in that light he can hardly be critical in a conversation where he is coming in at several levels above his interviewers (social perception).
@@RoxyWrites This will be my last comment as I don't want to waste more of my time. But really, everything you wrote are facts? how do you know that he's bothered about the mispronounciation? do you have access to any scientific evidence that he truly cares and that it ruins his day? You clearly don't have a scientific background when you count it as fact that he cares based on the fact that he does not tell the interviewer. That's clearly you ASSUMING that he cares. PS, you wrote that only americans and british people change the pronounciation of foreigners names. That's not true. Watch the interview with Mads on Skavlan. Stellan Skarsgaard who's swedish tries to pronounce it the danish way, gets the danish a-pronounciation right but still "incorrectly" pronounces the d. Skavlan who's norweigan pronounces it Marh-ds which is also "incorrect" because it is the norweigan pronounciation of the name. Enjoy your summer, bye.
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29:27 if you are here to watch Mads Mikkelsen smoking...
Thank you very much
champion.
thank you 😭
yes i am, thank you
pov: you're here to watch Mads smoking :p
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 yeah
Nope im straight as a writer I'm here to learn
Gotcha 😅😅😅😅😅😅
@@jeffpesos420 you don't have to be gay to appreciate mads
I love how Mads just aesthetically mogs everyone else in the call.
what does moggs mean? forgive me I'm not fully fluent in English lol
@@acfan8253 It's internet slang for outclassing someone in looks or status.
@@Snaut1 gotcha, thank you
Bro he only mogged 2 people
He first lit his cigarette at 16:50 then puffs at 17:27 and 19:40 then drinks coke at 20:55
God’s breakfast
this guy knows exactly what we're here for
29:27
These are the best time stamps you will see in your life.
thank you
17:27 * Mr Kitty - After dark starts playing *
The angle is everything.
The dream angle except Mads is actually attractive.
@@ricks.9456 you won't see me fighting you on this
mads puffing cigs and drinking coke in utter silence as vinterberg does all the work is cinema to me
thank you very, very much for recording and posting this. You're a Saint.
I haven’t seen this, but am looking forward to seeing it. Mads is the only actor I’m familiar with.....he is actually my favorite actor. I will watch a film he’s in even if it’s not one that interests me.
@@heidimeigs3109 that's fair. Even if you dont enjoy the film, you can enjoy the talent of the actors and the hard work put behind the film.
Plus Mads is just a fucking great guy inside and out, so
So everyone is just ignoring that he doesn’t blow out any smoke, he just straight up keeps everything in lol
What does that mean? What happens when someone does that? Is it healthier because he isn't using his lungs to exhale the smoke?
@@Chillycloth no it’s not, just means he kept everything in.
he blows it trough his nose
yeah i noticed that too i was like wtf
The smoke goes away if u keep it in long, it hits you more, but way more unhealthy.
Mads kinda looked so bored and uncomfortable, he literally just like me hanging up the call of the class rapidly
How comfortable can you be with a journalist you can't trust beyond superficial, cursory information because they can't even be bothered to learn how to pronounce your name properly and they also have done ZERO background research on you so instead of asking in-depth questions they're asking you, "so were you a dancer?" (I am a journalist and it's embarrassing to watch the media in my entire country be unable to take 4 secs to listen to Mads say his name so they don't sound uneducated or willfully ignorant.) After 20 years in the acting business in America and now in every major Hollywood franchise except Mission Impossible, this is disrespectful.
@@RoxyWrites are you friends with Mads cause I see you every Mads content in RUclips :D
@@klytemnestra No, I'm an entertainment journalist who writes about his career and movies, among other celebrities.
@@klytemnestra ps.. You must be a Huge fan if you keep track of so much content but your profession doesn't require it! :D
@@RoxyWrites well normally I don’t follow any celebrities like that but Mads give me a chill. I like the watch him :)
29:45 efectivamente es Cine.
Definitivamente es cine
Belleza.
Sublime
I’ve never been attracted to a guy like this before omfg. I found him in a famous meme, and since then I can’t freaking get over him.
i was looking for this!!! some people posted the smoking bit on tiktok and i've been trying to find the whole interview since. thank you so much!
May we strive to be as cool as Mads while waiting to talk during our future Zoom meetings. Except the smoking bit. Even Mads says "don't smoke"😂
all smokers will say that. I'm a smoker and I can say same thing. If you start theres no chance of stoping it. Shit I wish, I never started.
@@Ronaldinh0I did.
@@Ronaldinh0If you can't stop you lack willpower.
Dude just casually flexing his sculptured godlike jawline while smoking.
29:45 JODER! Esto es cine
studying while watching this so i can pretend like im attending a lecture with mads mikkelsen
He’s so…. oh my god
I'm not a smoker, but looking at him... I want to awesome inhale
I had no idea about the the film before seeing the trailer here looks great
coke and cigarretes i love MADS. coca cola is losing an opportunity here.
29:46 La entrevistadora hablando sobre la banda sonora de la pelicula
Mads Mikelsen: joder esto si cine 🚬
This is my favorite video now
29:46
Suena After Dark de fondo
hahah yes After Dark...i love that song with the smoking
Delicious Mads
I’ll accept *Mads* or *Mass* but never “Mods” wtf is that lmao
THANK YOU omg. And it's not as if there aren't recordings of him saying his name freaking everywhere. And it's Mee-gul-sun not Mykk-el-son. But I'm just a certified TEFL and a former tv show host in the business and a current journalist, so wtf do I know. LOL
@@RoxyWrites I believe he pronounces his own name like Mass Mickelsen (like nickle but with an m and sen) I believe ppl say Mads just bc American interpretation but omg I don't understand why ppl can't look it up and instead said MODS?? Its also a lil harder bc he never corrects anyone🥲 Also the way he looked at the camera when she said Mods😭🙏🏻
@@BloodyRose206 I hear you. ☺
re using 'nickle' as the pronunciation.. not quite. The "i" in Northern EU (Germany, Nordics) is not pronounced by anyone in Europe the way English speakers use it, neither when spoken as the alphabet character, nor within spoken words. I'm being specific about this FYI bc I'm a certified TEFL teacher for business and general, have also studied how the brain uses native speaking language to interpret what the ear hears (which may not be accurate), and I have spent time understanding the difference between the English and Dansk alphabets (they are very different). I've also listened to Mads say his name multiple times and broken down the implied declension and the phonetics translation.
That said, slowed down, using the phonetics that Native English speaking brains are familiar with hearing, it's actually *Mæss* said quickly, pronounced almost with a Latin-style "ae" (a declension also called a dipthong). So, it's not Mess, not Mass with a long a and not Maahhs or Mods or Mads. (Though I admit the way Hideo Kojima-san says "Mads-san" is very cute and forgivable despite the mispronunciation).😂
The challenge is that the Dansk alphabet does not directly equate to the native English speaking alphabet. Meaning, there are some combinations of letters and some pronunciations that do not translate at all to anything English speakers are familiar with because we don't have training in those pronunciations or letters/combinations. It's similar to how the "i" in the Northern European countries' alphabet is always said "ee" when pronouncing the letter itself and also when used in words or names, for example, in Mikkelsen). So it's (Mee-gul-Sun for the English phonetic translation). The "i" is never pronounced in Northern Europe the way Americans pronounce it in words like fickle, nickle, lid, wish, give, live, etc. And it's also not pronounced as an "I" as in "I am" English does not actually have an equivalent for that letter, except in the pronunciation of our hard "e" sound.
Similar analogy.. you'll find in North America, that no one has the Native Nation "glottle-stop" equivalent alphabetic character in their language as the Lakota, Hopi, Diné (Navajo), etc. Sometimes, there just isn't an equivalent letter or declension for something so when you listen to it through a filter of being an English-speaker, your brain tries to find something familiar to use as a guideline, which becomes confusing. That's the drawback of English speakers trying to pronounce or communicate Mad's name, in actual pronunciation, the way he, and other Dansk speakers would say it. This is also why learning a different language is hard. There are sounds and alphabet characters you've never heard before, used in ways you've never "thought in" bc the brain thinks and processes in language terms.
@@RoxyWrites True true, I do like the Mee-gul-sun analogy, English is weird with accents and there are so many ways to pronounce things depending on where you live so its hard to spell out pronunciation😅 with Spanish pronunciation Mee-gul-sun is more dramatic so I did nickel, I've seem some ppl say Migglesen with the K softly spoken in it so Mikglesen Mee-kg (kul)-sun (hope that makes sense)
I feel like easiest why to rlly know is just listening to him saying his name, spelling pronunciation is just a pain lol; but I do like Mee-gul-sun in some areas
@@BloodyRose206 Yeah, English is a pita in many ways bc it contains so many other root languages, including the Germanics. I'm not surprised you've heard partial k and partial g, because the "kk" *is* almost a "gk" sound when the Danes pronounce it. The other issue between the languages is that most Northern Europeans, certainly the Danish, speak compactly when they pronounce vowels and consonants, where as most of the American English culture drags our A's and most of our other letters, too for about 5 days whereas it takes a Dane about 5 seconds in comparison to say the same thing. That makes breaking it all down harder to hear. But I agree about listening to him say his name. How someone pronounces their name is how it's pronounced which differs from the perspective of things like poe-tay-toe or poe-tah-toe. The potato is not a person or a country, and in contrast a human being's name would be more accurately pronounced in the way that they and their family say it.
i came here just to watch Mads smoke
He have perfect bone structure
Bros lungs absorbs 100% of the smoke
17:27 he exhales with his nose
Definitivamente es Cine.
Mads really making his money's worth by swallowing every puff
29:46
29:51 es Cine
efectivamente 🚬
2 people above yappin and Mads just chilling 😂
karizmanın öz evladı adam
*_17:27_**_ yo viendo la niebla_*
My eyes have been blessed
I hate the industry part of filmmaking everyone is spectacular in this movie but the trailer just tells us about it being Mikkelsen's best yet
Hi Mads, Jeg elsker dig❤❤❤
@Die Kaprunin I also started learning Danish) I want to see Copenhagen😘
What are the other two yapping about
Omg! I just realized we are all stalkers! 😂
what a chad
49:19 me leaving my school zoom call at the first possible chance back in lockdown
Also does he smoke none filter? I think he smokes none filters
good question ;(
Yes Danish kings
Smokes 1000 cigarettes a day with no filter and spends his time out in the sun but looks like a god. Life is unfair lol.
JODER
Live mads reaction:
No one came here for the interview or the movie we all just wanted to see peepaw smoke and drink coke
I love Mads🤭😁he's precious🥹💓
where does his smoke go 😅
17:28 look at his nose
he swallows it
Балдёж
Cine
her pronouncing his name like ‘mods’ is making me so mad
who else see the amog in the background
There is wonderful information shared by Vinterberg and Mikkelsen in this interview, but omgoodness Katie saying "Maahdds??" What is she saying? Is there a single journalist in this entire country besides myself (former news reporter, now ent journo) that can pronounce this actor's name properly?!!
I really need to rant here for just a sec, bear with me . . .
This is so..SO disrespectful! After this actor has had 20 years in American movies and now a role in every major Hollywood franchise except for Mission Impossible, do not tell me that you cannot take 4 secs to listen to Mads Mikkelsen say his name! You are interviewing two of the most known international actors and directors on this planet and you don't do your RESEARCH? (Dogme95 Manifesto: that was Vinterberg and Von Trier!]
You ask the actor, "were you a dancer?" Excuse me while my head explodes. ...I'm sorry, in this business you NEVER interview anyone who is the lead of an OSCAR-winning movie or a well-known name without doing a minimum of 10 mins of background research so that you can ask real questions that have depth!, and that small amount of research would only be that small because you were asked to do it on the fly, step in for someone else. No, normal research for this kind of an interview is hours!
omg, my country makes my head explode daily.
At least you can hear Thomas Vinterberg say Mads' last name properly (Mee-gul-Sun), thank all that's green!
#MadsMikkelsen pronounces his name [Mæs Mee-gul-Sun]. Notice that the moderator, Chris who wasn't interviewing, actually says Mads' name properly! (omg Thank you!)
I'm sorry to rant about this, but this is embarrassing to the country you're from (and if Katie is not from the U.S. then it's embarrassing to the country she *is* from!) ...I know it's bad form to criticize another journalist but ffs people, do you understand that when you come to a conversation, interview, interaction with someone who is Scandinavian AND famous, they have to go out of their way to "balance" the conversation. If you don't understand what that means, do some RESEARCH.
I get your point, but I think you put too much into it.
Even Thomas Vinterberg pronounced it as MaDs in this video though he normally (of course) pronounces it the danish way as Mas, when he's speaking danish. I think it's quite normal to pronounce a name "the english way" when you're speaking english.
And most importantly, I don't think Mads really cares. But I get your frustration about her lack of research in general.
@@LMoneL
To your comment
"You put too much into it"
This is exactly my point about Nordic countries versus
say elitist American culture that thinks it's okay to pronounce someone's name however they feel like it. That attitude is what has the U.S. in the current position it's in economically: 'oh we'll just do whatever we want without regard for basic manners and courtesy and people will just have to deal with it.'.
Thank you for amplifying the underlying point I was making about disrespect. I can hardly, I suppose, expect anyone outside the journalistic profession to understand how much more important it is for those of us inside this profession, or in broadcast, to use common courtesy. Your point of view is one of willful ignorance, laziness, and elitism. Entitlement makes us think that good enough is okay and that it's fine to disrespect someone at the most basic level. People who are courteous also do not outwardly get bent when someone disrespects them and celebrities who have a grip on reality do go out of their way to give wide latitude to Americans who have no class, courtesy, education, or manners (sadly that describes a lot of the Western culture).
Let me explain what this has to do with pronunciation: The words tomato and potato are often pronounced differently. In fact we make a lot of jokes about it. However, when you are saying someone's name you do not change the pronunciation of the name to something else when you go from America to a foreign country or from Britain to another country. If Sir Anthony Hopkins visits Japan or China they do not change the pronunciation of his name to make it sound like it's Japanese or Chinese, no they make an attempt to say the name as closely as he says it, because that's his name. (Like Hopkins, Mads is also a knight - he's actually a knight in 2 countries). In any case, a name is not the same as the label for an inanimate object. But, in our entitlement in the West, we erroneously imagine that it's fine. It's not.
Because Hr. Mikkelsen(R) comes from a Nordic country, there is an underlying egalitarian structure that governs the law of behavior for that culture. This has satirically been referenced as the Jante Law (Janteloven), which is not the actual name for those underlying governing rules. And pointing back to my earlier comment about balancing a conversation that also comes into play. He would be damaging the conversation from his Nordic point of view to correct the interviewer. By the way, she also mispronounces Thomas's name, just not as badly. Mikkelsen is also twice-knighted and his public behavior is a reflection of 2 countries investing those titles in him.
And just because someone doesn't correct you when you're wrong in front of millions of people doesn't mean it doesn't bother you that the interviewer has so little respect for you or for their profession. And it doesn't mean it doesn't demonstrate how elitist is the interviewer's own culture and pov.
@@RoxyWrites Great. That's your opinon, and I have mine. As a dane myself, I have never met anyone here who would freak out because an american (or anyone else) would pronounce our names a bit wrong. Life is too short for getting angry about that. We have bigger problems in this world. Btw I found this interview with him from national post 2013: . "Let’s get the name out of the way first. It’s pronounced “Mass,” say 47-year-old Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. Although he’s used to hearing “Mads.”
“I don’t mind,” he adds with a smile. “I think it sounds kind of cool.”
nationalpost.com/entertainment/movies/its-a-mads-world-even-if-mikkelsen-often-has-his-first-name-mispronounced
@@LMoneL I have seen the interview that everyone jumps up and down about it like you're doing now. Doesn't change the disrespect is real. Just means he's better at dealing with the disprespect (yours and everyone else's) than others are. And he's looking for the positive in a large population of uneducated people who are mispronouncing his name. But why would anyone have to deal with that? If Sir Anthony Hopkins doesn't have to deal with it why should Mikkelsen? And why should anyone have to DEFEND being disrespectful as you're doing?
You've deflected everything that I said using a single instance among thousands of interviews, and I won't argue all the factual points again that I already stated which you chose to ignore, it would be as much a waste of time as Mads trying to correct every interviewer who has every mispronounced his name... which is exactly why he doesn't do it. Willful ignorance can't be taught.
BTW, consider that when people are interviewed about coming to terms with an untenable effect of having a name as a celebrity that 1/2 the world is too lazy to pronounce, it would be counter to his culture to say "it really bugs me" ..of course he's not going to say that! That's not his culture nor his personality. Part of being a celebrity with tenure is to be agreeable and to bring balance to a conversation. You'll also find that's the only occurrence of him saying something like that when an interviewer asks him about his name among thousands and thousands of interviews where he does not correct the interviewer at all because he knows it will take away from the balance of the conversation if he does.
You'll also notice that the Moderator of this Q&A actually pronounces Mads name as it is actually said even though the interviewer doesn't. At least he's has some basic sense.
PS - No, most of what I said was not "opinion" it was fact. Opinion is anecdotal evidence. Your citation proves my point directly: cultural balance... i.e., "You are not to think you're anything special" (satirically referenced as Jante Law but with no less weight and one Mads has been quoted as saying in interviews as recently as 2021). Seen in that light he can hardly be critical in a conversation where he is coming in at several levels above his interviewers (social perception).
@@RoxyWrites This will be my last comment as I don't want to waste more of my time. But really, everything you wrote are facts? how do you know that he's bothered about the mispronounciation? do you have access to any scientific evidence that he truly cares and that it ruins his day? You clearly don't have a scientific background when you count it as fact that he cares based on the fact that he does not tell the interviewer. That's clearly you ASSUMING that he cares.
PS, you wrote that only americans and british people change the pronounciation of foreigners names. That's not true. Watch the interview with Mads on Skavlan. Stellan Skarsgaard who's swedish tries to pronounce it the danish way, gets the danish a-pronounciation right but still "incorrectly" pronounces the d. Skavlan who's norweigan pronounces it Marh-ds which is also "incorrect" because it is the norweigan pronounciation of the name.
Enjoy your summer, bye.
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They are both interesting, but this woman…. 🥱 she does not get anything