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NOT BETA-ED! I hope you forgive my translation errors.

About his children, Viola & Carl

Interviewer: Do you save up your childish manners for your job, or do you live them out in private, too?

Mads: You have to ask my kids. They would tell you, how childish I can be. They are at an age, where they try to break away from their childhood. They turn from teenagers to young adults, while I hang on passionately to be a child [remark from me: he doesn’t want to be mature, so he wants to stay a child – at least in his mind :)]

Interviewer: Your children find you disconcerting.

Mads: No, it’s not that bad. And they have the advantage, that I’m always ready for a decent soccer game or to whatever they want to do with me. In my job it’s easy to maintain my “inner child”. There I have a “free pass”, to go into a world, which is ridiculous, wonderful, beautiful and funny […]

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About his past

Interviewer: On old photos you look like a top-athlete. Were you ever so disciplined?

Mads: I’m a very disciplined person. As a dancer you have to be that. That involves a kind of possession. We constantly trained. When I was filming for the first time, I wondered, how relaxed it was there in contrast to dancing. There the people came unhurried to the set with cigarettes and coffee.
[Remark from me: Of course, there is more to say to his past and there is more of it in the magazine, but like I said, I only chose a few things]

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About him, turning 50 years old in November

Interviewer: You’re turning 50 this November. How do you look forward to this birthday?

Mads: It’s feeling good. Bizarrely, I have no connection to my age. Of course, I can look into the mirror and discern, that I’m changing. But – first of all – I see my life as a journey. And until now this journey was fun. As long as I am physically ready to do all the things, I want to do, the number of years of my life doesn’t matter to me. Besides, one day you can look like a total mess, as an actor, you still can get interesting offerings […].

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About his wife Hanne

Interviewer: Since the beginning in the dance theatre you’re sharing this journey with your wife, who you met very early in your life.

Mads: And that is marvelous. I have never imagined my life in another way. Since that moment, when I saw her [Hanne] for the very first time, I wished for myself to stay together with her forever. And so it happened. Especially in this business our relationship is truly an exception. Luckily it worked for us.

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About his dreams

Interviewer: Actually you’re living your dream. What else are you dreaming of?

Mads: I’m living day after day. And when it’s about my job, I try to find projects, which really interest me. Completely independent from the opinion of my agent, who thinks one project would be bigger, financially profitable. I do what I like. If you’re too fixated on your career, everything turns into sticking points on your way to success, which you’ll never achieve. That would never have fulfilled me.

END OF THE INTERVIEW.