Doctor Who Series 8: 10 Actors Who Could Play The Master

5. Lars Mikkelsen

Last Sherlock connection, I promise! Anyone who's seen Series 3 of the show knows how awesome Mikkelsen was in its final episode. He was almost like Hannibal Lecter in his precision and his intelligence, in the way he carried himself and executed his plans. Funny enough, Lars is the older brother of actor Mads Mikkelsen who is currently playing that character on NBC's Hannibal. So why not have Lars play the Hannibal of the Who-niverse? Even through Simm's rendition of the charatcer, the Master has always been this huge, extravagant mastermind. When I think of classic Who, I always recall him being the villain at the end of ALL of Davison's series. Some way or another, the Master was always behind whatever it was leading up the those final episodes, and since then it's always been this sort of mustache twirling, Snidley Whiplash mischief, even with Simm. Considering we've seen crazy with all of these actors, what's been lacking in the character is the cold and calculated attributes. That's something I'd love to see in the Master that I feel I haven't, or at least haven't seen it on a modern level. Mikkelsen, along with the rest of the world's Danish actors, looks cold and calculating just being alive. I bet watching him eat breakfast and read the newspaper looks like he's plotting to take over the world. Even if he were playing Pokemon on his Nintendo DS you'd think, "What's he up too...? There's no way he could catch 'em all." Precisely because he represents the thing the character has been lacking makes him a great choice, not to mention he already has a relationship with Moffat.