Mads Mikkelsen and Stellan Skarsgård on Skavlan

[@TorchwoodPandP]

Brilliant interview. One Norwegian interviewer, one Swedish actor, and one Danish actor - speaking effortlessly in swedish! Mads impresses once more!

[@chrisdooley6468]

Amazed me too. I'm a linguist by trade and I wish I could switch and speak as effortlessly as these guys. Love these actors

[@timcuencaaarum2690]

the norwegian is talking norwegian

[@gudgalningen]

Lets underline they are all floating back and forth in SWEDISH not danish or norwegian ; )

[@trampstampOG]

Norwegian and danish are basically the same language minus a few difference, and Swedish has similarities too.

[@karayna9071]

gudgalningen No, Skavlan speaks Norwegian and Stellan & Mads are speaking Swedish. :)

[@klocka88]

A swede, a norwegian and a dane walks into a bar...

[@agffans5725]

Well the Swede and the Norwegian would have lost that battle even before they went in ..

[@klocka88]

AGF fans Huh?

[@agffans5725]

Christian Johansson you wrote > A swede, a norwegian and a dane walks into a bar... ___________ Well .. the Swede and the Norwegian would have lost that (drinking) battle even before they went in ..

[@GameAkolic]

what? xD

[@michaelhultgren9320]

I understand what you mean ;)

[@MKandASH4]

Mads Mikkelsen is speaking swedish with a danish accent, stellan skarsgård is speaking swedish and the interviewer is speaking Norwegian :P if anyone was interested to know

[@maryfroggatt4910]

Good to know. Thank god for the subtitles or I would be totally lost lololol

[@KC-lz6up]

So how are they understanding each other...🤔

[@Killerkwoi13]

@@KC-lz6up nordic peoples generally understand each others languages

[@KC-lz6up]

@@Killerkwoi13 Oh okay😊👍

[@yulzy000]

Because they all a variant of a dialect with accent of NORSE

[@asdfffs]

The host is Norwegian, Stellan is Swedish and Mads is Danish, I found myself kinda happy hearing Mads speak only swedish there haha

[@HolandaChiquita]

+Kevin Andersson Ahw that's nice, Scandanavia together. This is just like seeing something from SatW ;)

[@henrikselena]

Mads talks Swedish there

[@asdfffs]

henrik dahle And exactly what did I say then? Thank you for repeating it

[@henrikselena]

+asdf oh Fuck i just noticed 😂

[@henrikselena]

+asdf i didn't read the last part😂

[@peterolsson3450]

mads's swedish is really good

[@cjh5373]

Shut up

[@Toribot]

CJ H Well aren’t you a joy to the world

[@jakoblangenberg]

Han studerade i Sverige.

[@heybuddyyouincapetown]

@@jakoblangenberg precis, balettakademin i göteborg tror jag. hade själv en brevvän där en gång i tiden

[@vhollund]

Jeg vidste forklaringen ville være i kommentar til komplimentet

[@KreeZafi]

I was really confused when Mads spoke Swedish, for a brief moment I thought I just finally managed to understand Danish (that shit is unintelligible when spoken, sounds like they have a dislocated jaw) but nope. VERY impressive Swedish too, he barely has any trace of a Danish accent!

[@WoWPVPc0rner]

He has a very heavy trace of a danish accent tho. But impressive nontheless.

[@ElectroIsMyReligion]

Its only unintelligible to you because you dont speak the language.. obviously..

[@KreeZafi]

@@ElectroIsMyReligion Of course I'd understand it better if I actually knew the language, but the thing is that I can READ Danish perfectly fine, I just can't make it out at all when spoken. I can understand spoken Norwegian with no problem even though I don't speak the language, because it's articulated much more clearly than Danish.

[@ElectroIsMyReligion]

@@KreeZafi It takes effort and patience to understand Danish (like any given language really) - I never claimed it was an easy language. And I totally admit that the pronunciation is very different and not to say fairly difficult compared to Norwegian. But saying it’s utter gibberish and unintelligible is taking it a bit too far (although I suspect you said it in a humorous tone). It all has to do with exposure. Alot of people from Scania (the Southernmost part of Sweden) have little to no diffeculty understanding Danish because of the proximity to Denmark along with their Scanian dialect being highly influenced by danish. I get It might be hard - but c’mon it’s not impossible to understand - you obviously just don’t encounter the language (danish) very often (and why would you) but that certainly doesn’t help with your comprehension. - I for instance can’t understand a single word of Dutch (a language so similar to danish in some ways and yet totally alien) - it all just sounds like throat sounds/or somebody’s on the verge of a cough - but that’s only because I have very little experience with the language - in the same way you have with Danish.

[@KreeZafi]

@@ElectroIsMyReligion Yeah, I can imagine people from the south understand Danish better, my brother and I joke a lot about how southern Swedish is basically Swedish with a Danish accent (and we also joke that everything south of Gothenburg is practically Denmark lol). I never said it was utter gibberish, just that it's hard to understand. And yes, he spoke Swedish here for sure, presumably because he was talking to Stellan. I even went and looked up videos of him speaking Danish to see if perhaps he just had a very clear accent, but no, his Danish sounded very different from his Swedish here - the man speaks a ton of languages so obviously he'd speak Swedish with the Swedish man!

[@Pewling]

I had no idea Mads spoke Swedish.. Holy shit man, he is talented.

[@mrsleipner2911]

Apparently he studied ballet in Gothenburg. Learned Swedish while going to the ballet academy there.

[@MTMF.london]

Most Danes speak at least one other Scandinavian language and English plus possibly German as well.

[@thescandinavian2487]

Common place for Scandinavians to speak OTHER Scandic languages and at least one or possibly two European languages as well.

[@erik....]

@@MTMF.london That's not really true is it.

[@seanl6478]

I think he speaks more than those 2 as well. I can’t remember which

[@linajurgensen4698]

I don’t know what it is but there is something about scandinavians that extremely attracts me.

[@shnehaprasad974]

I know right? It's like they have this irresistible charming aura around them. You can't help but be tempted.

[@shaymary5247]

EXACTLY.

[@ram5385]

Spot on

[@shaymary5247]

I've developed an attraction to metal head Norwegians over a decade ago! I still find them attractive. But now Danish & even Swedish (tho not Scandinavian) have gotten my attention some yrs ago, 1 of them being Stellan Skarsgard. Yes, I know he's older, but I like it that way!!! 😉😋🙃

[@liii3622]

@@shaymary5247 Are u saying that Danish and Swedish aren't Scandinavian?

[@yourpalfred]

They are so respectful of each other and both of them seem so down to earth. So great. Thank you for sharing this!

[@Pirike74]

Love both of them so much! And thanks Stellan for all the lovely sons, not only great looking, but talented actors as well.

[@JimmyOlsson]

11 years later they have both played two of the most brilliant characters in Star wars history! Legends both if them!

[@rawyld]

Yes they are

[@Dr_Pachacamac]

We desperately need a scene with the two of them together in Andor s2!

[@ultimatehistoryofcgi8897]

and raper ( from Dogville)

[@Queen_Springsteen]

Is Stellan in Star Wars

[@JimmyOlsson]

@Queen_Springsteen Yes! You MUST watch Andor, season 1! It's the best live action Star Wars TV-series so far and Stellan delivers the best monologue ever in Star Wars history in episode 9!

[@jbi]

En svenske, en danske og en nordmann satt sammen i ett TV show....

[@ZetaReticuli87]

En härlig trio =)

[@Matstarx25]

Jonas B. Ingebretsen Vældig fint ja :) Burde der være mere av

[@M4nkie]

+Jonas B. Ingebretsen lol I'm german and understood what you said :D

[@toreswe]

+Jonas B. Ingebretsen En svenske, en danske, en nordmann og en Bellman satt sammen i ett TV show....

[@MrNordicnicklas]

+Mankie Reloaded No you did not...

[@Nipponing]

So awesome to see a Norwegian, a Swede and a Dane speak like this without using English. Skavlan speaks simple Norwegian, Stellan Swedish and Mads also Swedish, but with a Danish accent. It's kinda funny that Mads can't speak Danish though cause then it would be a lot more difficult for people to understand. XD That would have been so awesome though if you could mix all 3.

[@MrDanish6066]

I think Mads could easily speak Danish if he wanted. I've never met a Swede that couldn't understand me, and vice versa. Maybe if you go to the very edge of Denmark/Sweden there'd be trouble because they're not involved enough with each other, but for most Swedes and Danes I don't see a problem at all. Besides, the Scandinavian "super" language is picking up popularity these days, could be a glance into the future for all of us.

[@Nipponing]

@106615697302312737737 Um. Danish is quite hard to understand to a Swede. We could maybe get like 50% without learning any Danish.

[@MrDanish6066]

***** I've never met a Swede struggling with Danish, and I work with a ton of them. But most of the Swedes I've talked to are from Malmö/Stockholm, so maybe there's something there.

[@Nipponing]

@106615697302312737737 Sorry. I should have said 75%. And I'm guessing there are a lot of Danish dialects as well that could make a difference. But it's not as easy as you make it out to be. Norwegian is really easy, Danish is a bit easy.

[@MrDanish6066]

***** You're absolutely right, I didn't take dialects into consideration. There are some Swedish/Norwegian dialects that I can't figure out for the life of me - even some Danish ones ;-)

[@bardia8905]

Finding an interview of two of the greatest actors of all time in their own language is something i needed in my life

[@MadScientyst]

100% agree bro! This is f@cking priceless. Stellan & Mads are the kinda actors, you'd watch ANYTHING with them in it...PERIOD!!

[@spidaminida]

Stellan is the father of both Eric the Viking from True Blood and Floki from Vikings.

[@Kiefer89]

and Bill Skarsgård, Stellan's youngest son, played one of the main characters in Netlflix's "Hemlock Grove"

[@spidaminida]

Is it worth a watch?

[@Kiefer89]

spidaminida I just watched to kill time, and I ended up watching all the episodes.. 6/10

[@theresborg2541]

Kiefer89 Bill is not Stellan´s youngest son. He has a son named Kolbjörn born 2012. Stellan has 8 kids total.

[@Kiefer89]

Whatever :P

[@carlyjs95]

"I'm not leaving an inheritance they can take care of themselves" Boris my beautiful boy. A statement has never been more true, you and your wife did a phenomenal job.

[@dewoune]

Mads is speaking really good Swedish! Both good nordic actors!

[@TheBrandiElizabeth]

Mads and Stellan are so accomplished. Even as a teen in 2004, I admired them both in King Arthur.

[@MrPhantom95]

Haha! Fan vad roliga dom är tillsammans. Inga stela, tråkiga gubbar. Jag blir alltid på bra humör när jag tittar på det här :)

[@Mezzy..]

He's right about the dancing thing, I had no clue mads would break out literal jump splits. my jaw was literally on the floor

[@Plathismo]

Such a big fan of both these guys.

[@heavycritic9554]

1:15 When Mads says "Det är en annan Stellan, ja" ("That's another Stellan, yes", not subtitled), it's completely perfect Swedish pronunciation. If I just heard that sentence, I as a Swede would not be able to pick out that he's Danish.

[@katarinam517]

Håller nästan med, på jaet i slutet kunde man höra skillnaden.

[@rykehuss3435]

@@katarinam517 Is it because its more like "jo" than "ja" ?

[@erincowan5665]

I'm so impressed with Mads' command over Swedish and English language.

[@shnehaprasad974]

Mads is just so maddeningly charming, it's like everything he does is so seductive, so darkly seductive ,it's irresistible.

[@K4inan]

Uhh sure, why not?

[@jeanlundi2141]

Jeebus, take a chill pill. Mind the cringe.

[@DamienHurts]

these two gentleman ooze sex appeal. can't help but love it

[@梁雯-q4d]

DamienHurts

[@brendanayres7920]

I love these guys. Two great actors that can speak to ANY audience. . . . their language is universal.

[@BravoSierra894]

För en stund trodde jag att jag äntligen fattade danska!

[@AtticAurel]

🤣😂

[@miffyn1737]

I'm adoring the Scandinavian intelligence so much.their English accent sounds like a native speaker of English.

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

I don’t understand a word of any of the Nordic languages, but I love listening to them. They have a wonderful rhythm.

[@TemplarReturns]

These two are probably some of my favorite foreign actors ever. Mads and Stellan.

[@joshuacollins9346]

Two of my all time favorite actors.

[@der_Alptraum]

Imagine a Finnish man walks in.

[@pellman87]

TORPAKINI SATANA

[@JoonasD6]

Jag kan kanske delta med moominsvenska.

[@rudy1999]

That would be perkele

[@nawan4650]

Oh fug :--DDD

[@suakeli]

@@pellman87 Turpa, not torpa. Kiinni, not kini. Saatana, not satana. Your message means something like "cottage gin as hundred".

[@Ellenemax]

Thank you everyone! Questions I have had for years now are answered by this interview and all of your insightful questions and comments. I am so happy I found this. Mads and Stellan are two of my favorite actors and I love hearing them speak like this. It is so cool you guys can understand each other. I think Mads learned Swedish from having lived there.

[@ineffablemars]

It's so weird when they go in and out of different languages like that.. crazy. And their accents are excellent it makes me feel like an invalid.

[@chelsbartly6524]

Thank you for translating I love Mads!

[@JillyMacKenzie]

These two are a powerhouse :3

[@coffeeandpeach]

thank you for the effort in making the subtitles :)

[@sierralvx]

I was today years old when I realized that English wasn't their first language. I should've known, their names are so Scandinavian!

[@nicolewoolaston1554]

Literally the coolest thing I've seen all day!

[@biancarossi3603]

0:04 I loved Mads' face LOL

[@jonathankarel7735]

Both amazing actors.

[@GreenleafXD1]

0:58 "Kinky Arthur"

[@marshmelows]

So cool to see such great villain actors talking to each other.

[@andreashjelmeseth3904]

This is a danish man (and actually quite a broad danish accent as well) speaking brilliant swedish to a swedish mastermind of an actor in an norwegian/swedish show❤️This man !

[@terristarnes7742]

Great Interview, I like Mads he is a brilliant actor.

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Great insight! Concise and to the point. Keep up the excellent work!

[@creature57]

Thanks for translating this. Mads is my favorite actor.

[@godiskungen27]

Håll så keften Mads!! Ne skoja älskar Mads Mikkelsen

[@DGPripjaT]

Kudos to Mads! Had no idea he could speak swedish.

[@dominusofficial7290]

Mads är ju fan kung

[@iphone4wsom3]

I was so surprised when Mads started talking swedish. I did not expect that

[@Jessica0709]

It's a Scandinavian potpurri! Very confusing and yet great :)

[@ashotofmercury]

🤣🤣

[@jaysterling26]

Just needs a soupçon of Sami for completion ( not including Nyorsk & dialects..).

[@Saskatchetooner]

I love both of these actors. Both very brilliant.

[@johnwickwinchester6545]

Mads Mikklesen is really a madly good actor

[@israfaeldari5532]

I love Mads and the Danish people!

[@Microbex]

That was kind of you to say. ☺️

[@avinashsaraf5359]

Got recommended after 10 year... Where was this gem hiding

[@patrickhicks9880]

they both have loads of brilliant children and family members who are actors

[@MTMF.london]

Stellen Skarsgaard has 8 children, many of whom are actors. Mads Mikkelsen has 2 children but they are still young and at school. He's got an older brother who's an established actor though. His name is Lars Mikkelsen and he was in The Killing and the 3rd series of Sherlock and various other.

[@patrickhicks9880]

@@MTMF.london i think mel gibson has 11 children and his father was over 100

[@JackassJimbo]

I had no idea Mads even spoke Swedish, that's awesome.

[@pedjanedeljkovic7021]

This is just amazing!

[@mohammedamayri2237]

"Jag tänker inte lämna nån arv, de får klara sig själva" HAHA helt fkn rätt.

[@LivingGhost1]

We need a scene in Andor Season 2 of Luthen Rael and Galen Erso interacting.

[@RobertaMarciel]

Mads and Stellan together, oh my God😍😍😍...

[@theor7281]

MÄÄÄDS

[@xandranicholai7301]

Hannibal and Thor's friend in one room. Never thought I'd see the day.

[@MiotaLee]

I love hearing him speak Swedish. His accent is so good! I love his "Nääe!" at 1:11

[@yurmomsaccount]

I listened to this whole interview I READ ALL THE WORDS but I was REALLY busy just looking at their faces. 😍

[@luxborealis]

What’s so impressive about their faces? Mads Mikkelsen looks like an alien as always while Stellan Skarsgård looks like every middle aged school principal.

[@joeycmichael3206]

The two best Scandinavian actors of all time.

[@froseo9]

Fan vad jag diggar mads brytning på svenska. Haha, låter fett skönt

[@Spencieboy123]

Noen av Danmark og Sveriges største skuespillere samlet! Kult! :D

[@Quadraxis]

The fact that Mads is able to speak Swedish so cleanly is incredible. For those who don't know, the Scandinavian languages; Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, are very similar, so we are pretty much able to understand each other if we speak clearly enough. Danish is a bit more difficult for Norwegians and Swedish to understand vocally due to its unique pronunciations and intonations, which is why Mads is speaking Swedish. However, on that note, being from one Scandinavian country and speaking any of the other two languages is extremely difficult since the words are so similar in many instances, you can accidentally end up speaking your own language with an accent instead, which is terribly embarrassing. So yeah, that is a huge testament to his abilities as a multilinguist.

[@CGBean36]

Fantastic actors

[@godiskungen2788]

Love Mads Mikkelsen!

[@QuebecQueen]

OMG!!!! I absolutely ADORE these 2! Yeah, they party hard!

[@andremazzagatti4956]

Awesome Interview

[@itzjezzeify]

Thank god they have subtitles...

[@volna9704]

Oh I see! I just thought they were very similar because .. ok story time: I am from Germany and sometimes you pick up a can of something in the supermarket or so and there are the ingredients in all those languages and danish, swedish and norwegian are always almost exactly the same like word for word so I just thought they were similarly spoken too :D

[@NATIK001]

The history of that is complex. Danish and Swedish are eastern Nordic languages and closest related to each other on paper, but Danish has deviated from other Nordic languages and picked up its own style, somewhat more similar to German and Dutch, but with very unique Danish twists to it. It is often said that Danish has the most vowel sounds and the most complex number system of any European language. Danish is very reminiscent of French, in that much of what is written isn't said and things that aren't written are said, and Danish and French both share the quirk of using base-20 counting systems in part. Norwegian is western Nordic, in the same group as Icelandic and Faroese. However 500 years under Danish rule and 100 years under Swedish wiped out the Norwegian written language and replaced it with the Danish one instead. When they finally went independent they changed the written language to fit spoken Norwegian more, and they created a second written language to fit old style Norwegian besides that. Add these factors together and you have Norwegians using adapted Danish as their primary written language, and Danish and Swedish being brother languages to each other, and you have the explanation for why they are so similar on products in the supermarket.

[@CelebrianUndomiel]

Fucking hell, how many languages does Mads speak?

[@daniellel7038]

He's fluent in Danish, Swedish and English, and can speak some German, Spanish and French.

[@fineliner306]

Danielle Effiong I wouldn't say fluent in swedish, but what ever.

[@sistaledaren]

fineliner306 . He is fluent in swedish. You know nothing

[@CelebrianUndomiel]

jon snow

[@fineliner306]

sistaledaren Han pratar fan inte flytande svenska ditt kioskmongo!

[@ngzbblax]

Det var en dansk, en svensk och en norrman.... ;)

[@unkellgrga9223]

hahha lol

[@BethCraddock]

Ay, Stellan, Alex, Gustav and Bill are making their own money 💰 acting. You gave them great 👍🏼 genes 🧬 😁😍

[@ovetjkin]

Det var en dansk, en svensk och en norrman. Detta kan bara sluta pà ett sàtt.

[@loke1555]

Og Normanen vant alt😄🎉

[@j.f.bastian7118]

@@loke1555 Har man inget att förlora så har man bara allt att vinna

[@dontsubscribetome3262]

GRUPP SEX

[@alexanderschwab6408]

@@j.f.bastian7118 helt jävla rätt

[@dirtyreligion6330]

Danish Man

[@ojvamysigt]

Wow, Mads swedish is really, really good

[@shrimpony]

Mads Swedish is impressive. Didnt know he could speak Swedish this well.

[@tyrionlannister8238]

He currently lives in Toronto because off his carrier. He has lived in Gothenburg for many years.

[@coscrupi]

King Arthur is a GREAT movie with them. So glad they had a taste of MARVEL too. Now Stellan needs a Star Wars role to be even with Mads 😋

[@Wavemaninawe]

Honestly, hearing Mads speak Swedish is more unsettling than watching him play Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The dude is an all around awesome actor, none the less.

[@KmT81]

VIKING CLASH!Two Great Actors! First time I saw Skarsgaard was in Insomnia ,1997 Norwegian thriller I watched in 2002 year of the remake of this movie(Pacino,Robin Williams) I saw Casino Royale only in 2013 and I was disappointed coz I thought Mads was the real bad guy but what amazed me was the poker scene when he has a killer looking face at Craig(a 3 second scene). Nordic Actors are famous now and Scandinavians make great movies especially Denmark.

[@glutengimp4542]

Mad props to Mad for that Swedish!

[@TheSpeedyone2]

My two great loves!xx

[@lindy4845]

It's so funny hearing Mads speaking Swedish. It sounds like a Dutch person speaking Swedish.

[@fontosnem8468]

can't decide which of them is more handsome....Stellan or Mads....♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@junemesis7149]

Nórdicos fascinantes,pra ficar perfeito faltou juntar Peter Stormare a esses deuses

[@malorious]

thank you for this!!

[@meh23p]

I’m Danish and I had NO idea Mads Mikkel Sean spoke fluent Swedish!

[@FineCaroline]

King Arthur

[@SwedishLatino]

Dude, Mats' Swedish is almost perfect holy cow didn't know he spoke Swedish that well

[@KraljOsovina]

-"Who takes care of the Bill?" And I'm like: Wtf? The? He's Stellan son for f*cks sake! :P

[@n1cklass]

closely related languages :-) so we understand each other and can make sense when we talk to each other :P

[@volna9704]

Thank you so much for the inside view, this is really interesting! And no I don't ! :D To be honest, sometimes it is hard to understand dialects from within Germany itself, because I am from the north where we speak very clean and clear German, but when I meet someone from Bavaria it is SO HARD to understand them.. and Austrians have lots of different words so that's that :D

[@grimlund]

Mads Mikkelsen är fan kung och dansk film fortsätter att imponera. Kolla in filmen "Jakten". Så fruktansvärt bra.