We're still not 100% sure exactly who Mads Mikkelsen's baddie will be in the upcoming Doctor Strange movie (keep an eye out at Comic-Con for more details), although the best guess is that he'll play obscure minor villain Kaecilius.

But speaking exclusively to Digital Spy, the Danish actor hinted at a couple of new details about the role and the movie generally.

The film will certainly have a sense of humour and moments of levity, though probably not from Mads's character.

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"You can't bring [the humour] yourself, if it's in the script you have to sort of lean into the script that's already there. There is some. My character is not necessarily carrying too much of it but Doctor Strange is," he told us.

"There's a certain darkness in the Doc and a sense of humour in there, absolutely."

Mads spoke to us while promoting his latest film Men and Chicken, a black comedy about a group of half-brothers who discover they have a strange heritage, directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, who was one of the writers on the upcoming Stephen King adap The Dark Tower.

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The two projects were understandably pretty different according to Mads, who told us Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson still tried to maintain a level of intimacy on set.

"They're hard to compare. [Men and Chicken] is a small group of friends who are making a small-budget film - well, actually it's not that small a budget, but compared to the American films it's obviously nothing. We are a tight little group, we will discuss it in the evening, talk about what we've done, what we're facing tomorrow.

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"That is not the same way we work in America of course, the director has a billion things to see to, but we try to make it the same, try to sit down, discuss the scenes before we shoot them, we try to make it a smaller room than it is in reality and make the scenes be like any other scene - forget about the big spaceships, forget about the 500 people walking around you, try to make it intimate."

There are spaceships in it then.

Though we know there'll obviously be a CGI element to the film, Mikkelsen stressed that he doesn't interact with it a great deal.

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"CGI is not a new thing for me, I've done it in a few movies," he said. "This one was not too bad, the CGI was not in direct interaction with me in my scenes, it was more like the backdrops, the landscapes would be slightly different sometimes, but I didn't have to interact with it."

Read the full interview here.

Men and Chicken is released in cinemas on July 15. Doctor Strange is released on October 28.

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