NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Hannibal, Fantastic Beasts and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny star Mads Mikkelsen says he was excited to share the screen with one of his idols, Sigourney Weaver, in the new dark fable, Dust Bunny.
Written and directed by Hannibal and Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller, the family film follows Aurora (Sophie Sloan), an 8-year-old girl who hires her nameless hit-man neighbor from Apartment 5B (Mikkelsen) to slay the monster under her bed that killed her parents.
Weaver plays plays 5B's associate, an assassin whose high-heeled shoes are automatic pistols.
"That's one of those situations where you have to take your fan boy hat off now and again because I grew up with her and so did Bryan," Mikkelsen, 60, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
"But she's a lovely, lovely person," he said of the 76-year-old Alien, Ghostbusters and Avatar legend. "Very, very funny and a fantastic actress. So, it was hard to get the fan boy hat off, but she was so sweet that, eventually, I could."
