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"Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat has described the show&amp;#039;s new character Charles Augustus Magnussen as an &amp;quot;outstanding villain&amp;quot; who will leave viewers shrivelling with fear. Magnussen, who will be played by Danish actor Lars Mikkelsen, is a new arrival in the show&amp;#039;s third series and is based on the character Charles Augustus Milverton from the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories.  Co-creator Mark Gatiss said: &amp;quot;Lars is a stunning actor and the nicest man. He&amp;#039;s a delight to be around. He&amp;#039;s brought something really interesting and new to the show. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve talked about doing Charles Augustus Milverton for quite some time. He&amp;#039;s a proper big realised baddie. His original title was The Worst Man in London.&amp;quot; Moffat added: &amp;quot;He allowed us to move the character on. He&amp;#039;s now Danish. Like everything in Sherlock, we take the original and move it around slightly. I think he&amp;#039;s an outstanding villain. He will give you proper chills and make you shrivel at times.&amp;quot; Gatiss said that he was a very different prospect to Moriarty. &amp;quot;He is a man to whom power is second nature,&amp;quot; said the writer. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s not a baddie in his own mind.&amp;quot; Watch Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss talking to Digital Spy about Sherlock series three:  Benedict Cumberbatch described the new character as the &amp;quot;archetypal bully&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;He is so measured and precise - he is like a shark, a terrifyingly perfect predator of our age,&amp;quot; said Cumberbatch. &amp;quot;His means and methods are chillingly everyday in our culture. He&amp;#039;s a smart creation, very real and not fantastical. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s got a foreign perspective on the English culture which Holmes so perfectly personifies and the fact that he fights on the side of the angels. He sort of reduces what Holmes protects.&amp;quot; Watch Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch talking to Digital Spy about Sherlock series three:  [Sherlock series 3: Picture Gallery]  Catch up on all the latest TV and Movies releases in Digital Spy&amp;#039;s Screen Time:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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