Mads Mikkelsen, Demise Star Architect, Helps Brother, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Construct Lego Demise Star

Mads Mikkelsen decided to spread a little bit stardust on us all this vacation season by telling an incredible Star Wars story that’s positive to please anybody who has ever loved a galaxy far, distant.

Chatting with Variety, Mikkelsen revealed that he lately helped his brother, Lars, construct a Lego Demise Star (the actor says this was just a few years in the past, so it’s presumably not the recent updated one however the 2016 UCS release timed with the discharge of Rogue One, which is vital!). That’s cool by itself with out some other context. However there’s a lot extra to the story.

In Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Mads performs Galen Erso, a superb scientist the Empire pressured to assist create the Demise Star. He then additionally constructed a little bit fail-safe into it that allowed the Insurgent Alliance to blow it up, as revealed on a sure set of plans. So we now have the precise, in-canon architect of the Demise Star serving to construct a Demise Star in actual life. In Lego. Perfection. Nevertheless it will get higher.

Then, there’s Lars, who was first the voice after which the bodily embodiment of Grand Admiral Thrawn, first in Star Wars Rebels after which in Star Wars: Ahsoka. In canon, Thrawn and his legions helped the Empire defend provide traces to the Demise Star, although finally, he was a little bit dismissive of it, particularly when it got here to advocating sources for his personal particular undertaking, the TIE Defender program. However, he was nonetheless a significant a part of the Empire when it was being constructed.

So, principally, on the Mikkelsen residence, we now have one brother who helped the Empire rise to energy, joined by his brother, the architect of the Demise Star, to construct the massive, 4,000-piece set. It’s simply too lovely to even think about. You’ll be able to watch Mads discuss it within the beneath interview. The Star Wars part begins at 4:16.

Mads can at the moment be seen in Bryan Fuller’s new movie, Mud Bunny, whereas Lars will reprise his position as Thrawn in Star Wars: Ahsoka, which is prone to be out someday in 2026.

Do you assume the Mikkelsen brothers completed the Demise Star? How lengthy did it take them, in that case? Will they group up once more this Christmas to construct the brand new set, which even has a Mads Mikkelsen minifigure included? Write your individual headcanon beneath.

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