There’s been talk in recent years about whether movies like Polar glorify guns—and gun violence. Was that a concern?
No. Not at all. I don’t want to quote him, but I think Quentin Tarantino has said it a few times, and put it well: we’re making films. If we inspire any fucking idiot out there, it’s on them. It’s not on us. Those idiots would do stupid things anyway. This is a film—this is a graphic novel that comes to life on the big screen. What we want to talk about in the film is your past chasing you down. We want to talk about how two awkward people can somehow unite and can become a unit that is so interesting. That’s the stuff we want to talk about. And then there’s a frame around that which is insane and crazy and violent. But that’s not our main object.— Mads Mikkelsen
