{"id":42523,"date":"2016-04-28T10:44:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T17:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/?p=42523"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:25:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:25:31","slug":"mads-mikkelsen-star-wars-rogue-one-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/mads-mikkelsen-star-wars-rogue-one-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Mads Mikkelsen Reveals Who He&#8217;s Playing in Rogue One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is joining the Disney family in a big way this year.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll be appearing in <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> in November, as well as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/starwars.asp?utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rogue One: A Star Wars Story<\/a><\/em> in December.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically regarding the latter movie, in an interview with Britain&#8217;s Sky News, he let slip who he&#8217;s playing in <em>Rogue One.<\/em> Check out the video for yourself if you want to know!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen reveals that he&#8217;s playing the father of the main character in Star Wars film Rogue One <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6dagUqZB2j\">https:\/\/t.co\/6dagUqZB2j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/725701030810263552\">April 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, Mikkelsen will be playing the father of protagonist Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones)!<\/p>\n<p>Plus, if the rumors are true about her father being an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/2016\/04\/07\/rogue-one-official-teaser-trailer\/\">Oppenheimer type character<\/a> and helping in the creation of the Death Star, it&#8217;s probably a deeply rich role.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nRogue One: A Star Wars Story<\/em> is directed by Gareth Edwards and set to arrive in theaters on December 16, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think of Mikkelsen&#8217;s character? Are you excited to see him in the film? Let us know!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is joining the Disney family in a big way this year. He&#8217;ll be appearing in Doctor Strange in November, as well as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in December. Specifically regarding the latter movie, in an interview with Britain&#8217;s Sky News, he let slip who he&#8217;s playing in Rogue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,390,389,3793],"tags":[3145,112,1073,3545,2315,4055,419],"yst_prominent_words":[32115,32112,6240,32114,32111,32110,14526,9953,27444,27447,9311,32113,7447,32117,32116,5780,5779,7430,5781,7432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64290,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42523\/revisions\/64290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42523"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}