Bond bad-boy Mads Mikkelsen boozes with brokers at XTB, but are execs worried the loose-tongued actor will give away trade secrets?
It's well known that London's finance workers have a thing for James Bond.
And so it was for fintech trader XTB, which celebrated signing Le Chiffre actor Mads Mikkelsen as its brand ambassador with a star-studded party in the West End last week.
Is the fintech firm worried that their new signing will give away trade secrets? Before toasting the news with traders Mikkelsen, who was joined by Nancy Dell'Olio (old flame to ex England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson) for on Thursday night, let slip some huge details about his role in the new Star Wars film which had producers and spinners at Disney reeling all weekend.
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The actor revealed which character he will play in Star Wars: Rogue One during an interview with Sky hours before he turned to the party with XTB.
The Hannibal star promised that he couldn't reveal anything about his character's identity, before accidentally saying that he will play key protagonist Jyn Erso's father less than two minutes into the interview.
"That was too much, I’m sorry", Mikkelsen added immediately.
The actor is set to appear in a range of adverts for XTB this year, where he draws on his years of experience playing high net-worth villains to play the role of a retail investor.
Fortunately, the actor seems to have learned his lesson and is very much toeing the line for the multinational financial trading firm. The firm's Warsaw-based chief exec Jakub Maly, who also attended the West End do, thanked his guests for coming the next day, adding that Mikkelsen personally "asked me to convey how much he enjoyed the evening and spending time with everyone."