Mads Mikkelsen Met Martin Scorsese And Did The Geekiest Thing Ever

Mads Mikkelsen, who just turned 58, says that he learned the entire speech from the Martin Scorsese film when he was in his 20s, and the words have remained deep within his memory banks ever since.

In the film, Robert De Niro portrays Travis Bickle, a socially stunted loner suffering from insomnia, which only drives him deeper into his blend of mental illness and exhaustion.

The 1976 crime noir film has long been touted as one of Scorsese’s greatest outings, alongside such cinematic classics as Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed, and The Wolf of Wall Street.