Mads Mikkelsen On British People Being Too Polite, Green Tea With Milk, British Pronunciation & More

[@JOE_co_uk]

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[@stephss]

Is that an xmas tune on the outro?

[@MultiZaphod]

Seth Rogen sucks

[@scomo-dj8ot]

Feel called out. Apologised to him after he almost stole my pen at a con. Great guy

[@JOE_co_uk]

Must be nice to know you’ve directly influenced his opinion of us 😂

[@andpress3]

​@@JOE_co_uk do you know that your 9/11 video is monitored by bots or assigned accounts to discourage questioning? They assign teams for groups of videos. I can show you where your videos bots are.

[@Truffle_Pup]

@@JOE_co_uk I like how he said he liked the Cockney accent, and then you just went Full Manc on him in Test 3 🤣

[@JOE_co_uk]

We needed to introduce him to the glorious northern dialect

[@andpress3]

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[@edwardhannah8507]

Maybe the guy who said sorry in the elevator was because he saw Mads and thought "Oh s**t, that's Hannibal Lecter".

[@pauldenby878]

LOL - thats what I was thinking

[@msemerlissane]

I think that was my brother he then backed back into the lift and offered Mads some trail mix as he didn't quiet know what else to say!! We where at a comic con last year. Mads is very funny and great with his fans.

[@kubel83]

Or because he farted before leaving the elevator

[@jnielson1121]

Black Early Grey with a slice of lemon is VERY British, just especially posh British.

[@MaryShelleysNib]

early grey with lavender and honey, hold the lemon thanks.

[@jnielson1121]

@@MaryShelleysNib oh, agree fully. Though prefer myself some lapsang tbh. Just noting that lemon in EG is totes a thing.

[@MaryShelleysNib]

@@jnielson1121 😋

[@123Andersonev]

it's chinese blend vs indian blend, joe needs a tea history lesson.

[@annettemarshall4895]

But he put in milkand then wanted to add lemon - I think he got confused

[@Misunao23]

For anyone who doesn’t know, Mads was surrounded by his three British husbands at Tokyo Comic Con and it was absolutely hilarious and sweet.

[@123Andersonev]

he was actually right about the lemon, historically you separate tea into chinese and indian blends, you add milk to the latter and not the former, the most common is indian blend (because it's stronger) with milk, but earl grey is meant to be drunk neat with a slice of lemon and optionally dash of honey (if you feel so inclined.) chinese blends are particularly useful when you're suffering from a cold, the flu, covid or norovirus which sap you of hydration and all your sinus's get bunged up, then there are of course the spiked variations that my nan used to live by like the hot toddy (which doesn't necessarily have tea in it) or the irish coffee (doing the same thing just with coffee) when you just want to knock yourself out and get a nights sleep.

[@wullaballoo2642]

Black tea has tannins which the milk softens, earl grey tastes like somebody put perfume or aftershave in the tea. I like green or fruit tea with honey when I'm ill

[@samconway7091]

Hot toddy proper flu cure! Sleep like a baby after the whisky/brandy in it🤣

[@skwinwin]

You can add lemon to tea, but absolutely not after he added milk lmao

[@stephss]

Ty for saying Chinese and not just Asian.

[@nedalebedeva]

Isn't milk supposed to go to your cup before tea?

[@TheASSedoTV]

I’m not British, but I’m a heavy tea drinker. When I saw him trying to put lemon after milk, I was this close 🤏to a heart attack.

[@bladepanthera]

In Europe they do that in black tea, but without the milk of course. It's actually pretty good, but a totally different drink at the end!

[@TheASSedoTV]

@ I know that, my friend :) I drink it with lemon too sometimes. But milk AND lemon (as I wrote in my initial comment) is blasphemy! 😆

[@bladepanthera]

@TheASSedoTV haha that's true! 😂

[@crystal-83638]

If you get unlucky, the milk curdles when mixed with acid 🤢

[@PatBackPatBack-x4n]

Me, too. Who ever heard of lemon in milk. Wouldn't that curdle it? Yuk!!😊❤️

[@openviews]

‘Sorry’ is a social awkwardness thing. Acknowledges the person but ends the conversation before it starts.

[@florianeroux1133]

So real !!!

[@matroska_5625]

It is, yeah, but it's also a respect thing. There's an element of this idea that if you apologise, the other person isn't at fault. Even if it's obviously not your fault, you pretend it is so they don't have to feel bad.

[@james.stewart]

"I'm not going to pour it, until the water's in there" - Genius of suspense thinking he was going to make the mistake of pouring the milk in first. 1:29

[@jazzingpanda3190]

0:13 love the titanic joke haha

[@aruniyasminazizah3233]

What a masterpiece

[@chiefyt9250]

Mr Mikkelsen is the epitome of clever and cool.

[@MaryShelleysNib]

Mads is SO good in Valhalla Rising, stunning atmosphere, may have to watch him again tomorrow 😍

[@moonbaby6134]

As a Dane, I’m not surprised he is a Utd fan.

[@jjkanal640]

Why do Danes like united, is it because of Schmeichel?

[@moonbaby6134]

@ no. Johnny sivebaek and Jesper Olsen.

[@jjkanal640]

@@moonbaby6134 legends, I'm too young to have watched them, but I met Jesper in St Kilda in Australia, he was wearing a retro Danish football jersey and my wife is Danish so she recognised him, really nice lad, just like all the other Danes ive met.

[@rice_frying_shrimp]

so true, in the 2000s you could go to any school and basically divide the students into either Man Utd. fans or Chelsea fans. That was the two options. You could support your own local team, yea whatever but it was those two and if you liked a German team you'd get bullied into liking one of the two Premier League teams instead. Watching Bundesliga was fine, you just couldn't like any of the teams unless they were up against you non-favorite PL team in a championship🤣

[@rzkrish2775]

OMG THIS IS SO WHOLESOMEE!! Finally learned something new about peepaw✨✨

[@marinab106]

😂 I absolutely love Mads and I'm a big fan od Danish films and TV series. First film I saw was "After the wedding" and was hooked. Brilliant. Love from Italy 🇮🇹😘

[@PalleRasmussen]

Italian women do love us Danish men ;-)

[@minionofgozer7414]

One of my favourite actors, not because he is incredible to watch but because he is a great human being off screen as well 🤷‍♂️😎

[@pyrpyr5Wolf]

As a Dane living in the UK, can confirm both countries panic every year when the first snow arrives. But in Denmark we tend to get on with it after a couple of days. UK? We had 1 foot of snow last week and *nobody* cleared or gritted the footpaths. We all waddled around like penguins and getting up the steep hill to the train was a bloody nightmare 😅 Ill also agree on the tea, i only drink green or peppermint tea with nothing added or at most a bit of lemon 🍵

[@thevis5465]

The UK is not a country, you mean England. This does not happen in Scotland.

[@L0zzle]

Oh my god. I am in love with this guy

[@Marco-iy7lt]

I love the Mancunian accent of the interviewer, so relaxed and chilled out. ❤😎

[@anahome3696]

Good tea is made in a tea pot with loose tea leaves with water just under boiling. Then the tea is left in the pot for a bit to steep. Milk isn't added to a cup of tea where the water has just boiled. It will burn the milk. So letting it steep for a few minutes makes the tea strong and the right temperature to add milk. Also, some people never wash their tea pots. The leaves are chucked and the pot just rinsed out. Nice cuppa tea. With cucumber sandwiches.

[@pvtjhon]

Great little interview

[@anonimus370]

damn, he has such a chill voice. I'm so used to him in badass stoic roles like the ones in hannibal, death stranding or riders of justice that it was really unexpected to hear him this chill.

[@AaronfromEngland1989]

I love his work he's a top of the line actor.

[@baronwarborn9107]

Great actor and accomplished dancer

[@ilovefairiesverymuch4867]

i love mads so much, he’s my favourite actor 😊

[@algreen1]

Love Mads. Great stuff.

[@dans3626]

Many languages have a word for being genuinely sorry and for just saying 'pardon'. We just use the same word for both. How sorry we are is context dependent, and we would probably say 'very sorry' or 'really sorry' if we are actually apologising.

[@Spongefov]

i think we say sorry preemptively in case we misjudged where to place the blame in the heat of the moment - it covers you socially

[@pauldenby878]

I love Mads

[@hulme187]

Big fan of Mads, got to see him at a con in Korea years ago.

[@halcyondaystunes]

Those who love Mads and his movies but have only aeen his Emglish language movies, do yourselves a good one and check out his Danish movies. They are on another level.

[@kallioranta]

I second this! The overall quality of his Danish films tends to be better in my opinion and he has a greater variety of characters. Excellent performances across the board of course, be they in danish or english.

[@pebberjack6026]

gotta like this one.. give it up for my danish rep..! Keep at it Mads! vi hepper på dig!

[@hollingsworth_hound]

Sitting at a bus shelter in England with a friend of mine, a bus drove by with a sign flashing "Sorry, out of service." I told her "Even the buses here say 'sorry'."

[@sashana8310]

Have met Mads quite a few times at different conventions & he is great & so lovely to fans. Good to know he’s a Man United fan because then (if I meet him again) I can (politely) roast him about his team of choice 😂

[@Lostie2010]

So much ❤ for Mads 🥰

[@ThanksChris]

I love how he looks genuinely proud 😊

[@lukedaley17]

Glad to hear Mads is a Man United fan.

[@catgladwell5684]

I imagine it's because of Peter Schmeichel.

[@CharlotteEdwards-b9q]

He's amazing :)

[@DeniseDarlington]

Great actor and handsome ❤

[@MrBaronCabron]

This was such a good video.

[@aruniyasminazizah3233]

Miss him so much 😭

[@MrsPedroPascal]

Waaaaaaay too much milk 😂 Yorkshire tea is the best 😊

[@RoofLight00]

Brilliant actor. 🫡

[@HoneyDimon]

I did I spend half of this video muttering about how cute he is. Not gonna lie. As a milk tea enjoyer, he almost gave me a couple of heart attacks, but otherwise he did so well! 🙂‍↕️

[@511dydy]

Mad is really talkative

[@LukeTG2]

Nice video. He's such a good actor.

[@chriswright4677]

Lemon in earl grey is correct.

[@JOE_co_uk]

But Lemon in a green tea with milk?

[@chriswright4677]

@ no. Lemon in Earl Grey with no milk or sugar . Milk goes in black tea with sugar.

[@fredlewis6527]

@@JOE_co_uk Was painful waiting for you to tell him you dont put milk in green tea. You never did?! Mental

[@JOE_co_uk]

He was on his journey. Why should we spoil his fun 😂

[@chiefyt9250]

@@JOE_co_uk Let's just say you are both lemons for caring too much about how to correctly make a cup of Earl Grey tea.

[@AdenaKaiba]

Mads, tea and all things British in the same video ❤❤❤❤❤❤ !!!

[@GokaiGoblin]

Mads is such a gentleman. It is an honour to have him as a Joe Citizen, but feel as though I should apologise for us even making him take the test..! 😅

[@ruialmeida818]

Well, Mads, the tea drinking thing in England actually comes from Portugal - Queen Catarina de Bragança actually made drinking tea fashionable. Portugal had already been trading with china, from where we imported tea from.

[@Jamezzee]

Love the guy 👍

[@blackbird5634]

John Cleese famously said: The English are the only people who start every sentence with an apology.🤣

[@jonestracy77]

I love mads

[@mrcronstedt]

Bravo Mads!

[@maxkazzora4234]

It’s in our DNA. We Brits are polite people. I like this guy as a Man Utd fan.

[@gamingcorner285]

Are you kidding right? I mean this is experience of an artist and known actor so it feels nice to hear but to make you believe it.... You literally exterminated 3 continents and attacked every people on this planet. You are probably the worst people of our planet. There is a reason why everyone calling you Orcs.

[@ianwilliams2632]

Medieval & Tudor Englishmen were thought of as excessively rude & boisterous folk, especially on campaign. Picked fights all the time, drank more than any continental, and always made remarks against all-comers: Germans, Italians, Spanish, and of course the French. British politeness is very 20th century heheh

[@kimsherlock8969]

Hahaha hilarious / social change of the formalities of tea . Fine porcelain cup with saucer 😂 Now one teabag 😂 I was taught how to eat at a table ,..etiquette it helped 😊 ETIQUETTE like polygamy now 😂its not for everyone

[@Truffle_Pup]

Absolute bossman

[@WalterMarks1]

Sorry, is the most efficient word. It moves any situation on without the need to waste time

[@regenfunken3628]

It's milk OR lemon.

[@MaryShelleysNib]

NEVER milk. Puke.

[@wullaballoo2642]

@@MaryShelleysNib Black tea is high in bitter tannins, a bit of milk softens them and allows other subtle flavours to be tasted unless you then start chucking sugar in it

[@MaryShelleysNib]

@@wullaballoo2642 Oooooooooh is that why they added milk? Never knew that. Am aware of the tannins, tried a new earl grey recently and they were like a dirty puddle floating on the surface. Ugh. Can't stand milk tho, just honey, bit of lavender 👌🏽🤣

[@wullaballoo2642]

@MaryShelleysNib Lavender? Bloik there goes my dinner

[@MaryShelleysNib]

@ Like a French Earl Grey appaz, dinner loss alert, a little bit of rose sometimes too 😋

[@Josewilliams94]

It's just a nicety and formality. The Brits don't mean it, they just say it because it's built into the language and culture.

[@kierhudson1328]

I'm sorry, what do you mean?

[@Josewilliams94]

@kierhudson1328 the subtext of Saying 'Brits are too polite' is that they are meak and not straight talking, which isn't the case. Mads is from Denmark, where the threshold for saying sorry is a lot higher, i.e you wouldn't necessarily apologise if you accidentally touch someone's knee with yours whilst sitting on the train. Where as in the U.K you would, because it's seen as obnoxious not to. It's just a formality of sharing public spaces

[@macklee6837]

Omg, green tea and milk

[@MaryShelleysNib]

don't they call that a matcha latte lately?

[@Andy-gh9wy]

such a great actor ..

[@Chovieisin08]

British people have to apologise because our elders punished us for things we should have never been punished for.

[@jess1669]

"To Dis Man United" brilliant start Mads mikklesen / politics / religion - either a Manchester United Fan or Liverpool. Similar to Celtic or Ranger fan or in london _ Tottenham or Arsenal.

[@DeboraAzevedo-dz7cx]

GREAT ACTOR

[@straitJacketFashion]

Should really pair up Mads with Sandi Toksvig

[@anna-hc6dz]

0:14 😂 0:17 LMAOOOO HES SO FUNNY 5:31 this one is so funny! 8:12 he’s so wholesome!!

[@yarly3180]

Mads Mikkelsen's 'Tonny' character in the Pusher trilogy is the archetype of the Euro low level drug dealer in the '90's... stellar acting/directing!

[@thomaslangley1571]

The lemon squeeze is for the Earl Grey tea Mads.

[@adrianaflores4588]

I love and respect so much English culture!!

[@harryellis910]

English people say sorry so much as a way of instantly descalating a situation. If you nearly walk into someone you both say sorry and move on. It’s also more of a ‘sorry for maybe causing something bad to happen’ rather than a ‘sorry it’s my fault’. It’s not taking blame it’s like an open admission that something bad has/nearly happens and that no personal intent was involved. Kinda like admonishing yourself of the situation whilst taking some responsibility for anything negative you may have caused intensional or not.

[@hamilton9076]

I accidentally got in Denmark and tried local food Since then lemon in tea is absolutely understandable

[@AveryRaassen]

This interview threw me off guard. He is such a nice gentleman and humble but the characters that he plays are total serious guys......

[@sarina_mw4039]

i love him ❤😂

[@zov3532]

Mads❤

[@jamesbyrne9312]

What a great sport: )

[@PumpkinLady11]

I’m British, but there is nothing I like that’s British, the accents, the drinks, the food, the culture. I have always been drawn to places like Japan, Italy and Greece, ever since I was a child.

[@sirpizo555]

Off you pop then

[@croissantpower]

If you hate it here so much you should consider moving

[@PumpkinLady11]

@@sirpizo555 Hate is a strong word, not everyone likes the same things you know. My plan is to move though, one day hopefully I can do that.

[@PumpkinLady11]

@@sirpizo555 🤣

[@umbra1091]

Japan is literally just Britain if we had a subtropical region anyway lmao

[@ndie8075]

The brits are simply the most polite people I know we love them💘🇩🇪

[@TechnoAssassin-vx6zf]

snickers In tea all the way baby 🤣

[@asher.ez4118]

As a brit, 'please' 'thank you' and 'sorry' is hardwired into our DNA-WE CAN'T STOP IT EITHER

[@karengarrow5579]

He is such a good sport but I must say my stomach dropped a bit when I saw the microwave I thought he was going to make tea in there I think he would have offended all British people had he done that but thank goodness he knew better and used the kettle

[@hochgradig4941]

Nobody in Europe would do that though, everyone has a kettle at home. It’s only Americans who don’t. 😂

[@martinshepherd626]

Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to apologise for this apology. I am truly sorry

[@janmckellar6703]

Saying sorry is our "default' setting 😂😂😂

[@dam_ly]

I was apologizing because I let one rip before the doors opened!

[@nitomurray6137]

Lemon is something traditional with Earl Grey tea.

[@raven_bard]

When he mentioned putting lemon in his tea, all my ancestors turned over in their graves. 😅😱

[@Pilot.0101]

Top bloke, tbf, a lot of our blood is spliced with Danish up here in the north, for obvious reasons 😉😂

[@katherinehickey6915]

Well done Mads. Yes you can have lemon in your tea and it is best not to squeeze the tea bag. 9 out of 10.

[@sloakz]

Mads is a fucking leg end, what a boss

[@user-dq6tf9ms6q]

He is great actor. haha

[@05Rudey]

I am very odd with my Tea, its PG Tips or Yorkshire Tea, hot water the second the kettle clicks, then its a 30 second stir, then let tea bag stand for about 10 seconds in the water (about the time it takes to walk to the fridge get milk and back) stir for another 30 seconds, squeeze teabag with the teabag squeezer into the tea to get the strong stuff (does this device have a real name? Who knows). just a small drop of milk, a few stirs. The Perfect cuppa.

[@runRun-o6o]

とても素敵な動画をありがとうございます！ もしよろしければ、日本語字幕も付けて欲しいです😢

[@penpen6318]

You can go to Settings, enable Subtitles/Closed Captions, and select Auto Translate to translate it into Japanese.

[@airplanetowardsthesky3265]

Him making tea with green tea and adding milk and lemon 😂 he such a dumbass I love it

[@aussiejubes]

He used earl grey, but said if he was making it for himself he'd use mint.

[@LeonWoods-h6l]

we aren't really apologising or even feeling sorry a lot of the time, its a mannerism and politeness. Like excuse me or pardon etc

[@zahrasattari8738]

You might be interested to know, the correct way to pronounce his name would be to drop the "d" sound

[@TheJovialBrit]

I have that same honey! I lived in the Netherlands for 6 years and they always have honey in their tea. I'm actually a normal British person so I pronounce my words correctly and don't merge three words into one.

[@LouiseJosephine]

Non posh Brits - PG tips, 2 sugars (this is optional), milk. Never put milk in with the teabag still in. Posh people drink black Earl Grey with lemon 😅

[@oight]

the politeness stuff by overly apologising usually reflects more on a certain demographic of the UK, usually middle class urban people, maybe more likely to be southern english or around there. others can be polite in different ways that doesn't involve overly apologising (like saying hello to strangers or chatting with strangers in the north/scotland is more common for politeness), but there's also a lot of rude people in the UK too lol. here in glasgow the stereotypes would be very different. anyway, imo the best accent is a yorkshire accent!! i love scouse too cause it's just so mental

[@malbov6197]

Totally agree! I know a man who after having taught children around the world ended up in a UK state school. To say that he was shocked is to say nothing. Ruthless experience😂

[@affalaffaa]

Bored to tears of reading this. North Britain good south Britain bad. So simplistic, but expected.

[@benfisher1376]

​@@affalaffaaNorth Britain is Scotland surely?

[@maisar4563]

I'm from Scandinavia and I love British manners. Apologising to me is giving space to another, almost like telling them that you come in peace. In Scandinavia people rarely do that with strangers. Only when they want to gain something from them.

[@TuntunGamer]

@1:45 😂 but we think about it

[@jamesbyrne9312]

He got the amount of milk perfect. I bow down

[@MrKelso85]

There English is phenomenal the Danes