Mads Mikkelsen Talks 'Doctor Strange' Villain: Throwing Spoilers Like with 'Rogue One'?

Mads Mikkelsen is known first and foremost for playing bad guys, from his work as Bond rival Le Chiffre in Casino Royale to playing Hannibal Lecter -- and he's getting two more villains in 2016!

Months after casually throwing around spoilers about his character in Rogue One, the Hannibal actor talks about his Marvel début in Doctor Strange, but who is he playing?

It seems like the Danish actor may have learned his lesson from that mishap where he said his character was the father of Felicity Jones' Jyn Erso in Rogue One. Speaking to Yahoo Movies recently, Mikkelsen had nothing but praise for Doctor Strange, a film that will mark a new era in the largely magic-less Marvel Cinematic Universe so far.

Saying that the movie will be "different" from the 13 MCU movies we've seen so far, Mikkelsen said the Benedict Cumberbatch-led superhero film will "not [be] as different as the books are, because that was [...] more like an acid trip."

Regarding his own character, the character actor is keeping tight-lipped about what role he'll be playing, but made it clear this wasn't a by-the-books villain, saying that, while it was definitely an "antagonist" to Cumberbatch's Sorcerer Supreme, he's also "not necessarily wrong."

A morally ambiguous bad guy in a magic-filled movie like Doctor Strange (out in theaters on Nov. 4) could be just what the MCU needs after years of criticism regarding villains not really stepping up to their superhero foes.

For years, Marvel Studios has been criticized for not bringing truly memorable villains to the big screen -- with the exception of Tom Hiddleston's Loki, the baddie in Thor, the first Avengers movie and a powerful adversary in general at Asgard. Other villains haven't fare as well with audiences, including Robert Redford's HYDRA head in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the general fan disappointment with Ben Kingsley's Mandarin in Iron Man 3, which didn't even turn out to be the real terrorist from the comic books.

The studio has had better luck critically (and with fans) with the villains of their TV shows, particularly those on Netflix: Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin and Jon Bernthal's Punisher in Daredevil and David Tennant's Kilgrave in Jessica Jones are some of the most chilling villains ever to appear on the small screen, all amazing in their own right and a continuous threat in the MCU, as most of them are still alive.