Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is doing press rounds to promote his latest movie “Dust Bunny,” and during a recent career profile segment with Variety, as he goes over his various lines from previous films, the subject of the iconic dance sequence from the Oscar-winning film “Another Round” (the Thomas Vinterberg-directed dramedy, Demark’s entry, won Best International Feature Film in 2021 at the Acadmedy Awards), which the actor explains he originally “hated” the idea of before eventually coming around to embracing the joy of it.
“I thought the dance was like, if there was a dance, it should be a lifted universe was almost like a drunken fantasy. And [Thomas Vinterberg] was like, ‘No, you’re just dancing.’ I hated it, I didn’t wanna do it. I thought it was wrong for the film, and I just, he can’t convince me to do this, this is a realistic film; it’s too pretentious.”
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“But then a lot of things happened during the shooting, a disaster happened in his life and in our lives, and it just made sense. Everything became a tribute to life all of a sudden, and I went along, and it, yeah, it’s a fantastic ending. It’s something about remembering to live,” Mikkelsen said of how the dance sequence originally felt “pretentious” to him before fully being convinced it was the right idea.
For some context, “Another Round” starts out fine enough until the group of friends and co-workers (high school teachers) decide to experiment with blood alcohol levels as a way to benefit their lives by boosting confidence, only to end in tragedy, and the dance sequence caps off such a tender moment between those teachers and students at a graduation party as they embrace life rather than retreating to darkness.
To view that full exchange between Mikkelsen and Variety, check out the post below, as Bryan Fuller‘s “Dust Bunny” is already playing in theaters, and you can read The Playlist’s review for the new film from our Toronto International Film Festival coverage right here.
Mads Mikkelsen says he initially "hated" the idea of ending #AnotherRound with a dance sequence: "I thought it was wrong for the film."
— Variety (@Variety) December 23, 2025
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