Viggo Mortensen News
'It had to be very sincere or it wouldn't work,' says the actor when explaining why he considers playing the character of an unnamed father in the thriller movie the hardest part for him. ... Full Article
Viggo Mortensen is an intense actor, which makes him perfect for "The Road." The film, which opens Wednesday, is based on Cormac McCarthy's novel about a man and his son (played by Kodi Smit-McPhee) trying to survive in a near-future... ... Full Article
Viggo Mortensen takes being a cool actor to extremes. For his new end-of-the-world drama "The Road," he had to jump into a very cold ocean on location in Oregon. ... Full Article
This holiday season there will be no peace on earth. Viggo Mortensen isn't roasting chestnuts but trying to prevent his other body parts from getting roasted in the cannibal-crazy "The Road." ... Full Article
'Road' Warrior
boston.com –
2009-11-22
LOS ANGELES - Viggo Mortensen is everything you'd want and expect him to be: shaggy-haired handsome, passionate, thoughtful, and smart. The actor-writer-poet-painter and jazz musician pretty much seems to be the Renaissance man in real life that he is on... ... Full Article
Viggo Mortensen is a real-life Renaissance man whose abilities transcend his chiseled leading man looks. Mortensen is a painter, a published poet, a talented photographer and an actor of vast range, with roles encompassing an Amish farmer ("Witness," 1985), a... ... Full Article
TORONTO - Director David Cronenberg , who cast Viggo Mortensen as a Russian mob lieutenant in Eastern Promises , tells how his star would disappear from the London shoot on weekends, not revealing where he was going, and return Monday... ... Full Article
Where 'Road' takes them
baltimoresun.com –
2009-11-21
Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee have eaten bugs together. They've shivered through frigid winter air, fought off desperately hungry cannibals and walked side by side on the empty and dusty roads of some future, dystopian America. ... Full Article
On the road with Viggo and Kodi
windsorstar.com –
2009-11-20
TORONTO -- Viggo Mortensen, 51, and Kodi Smit-McPhee, 13, are the co-stars of the post-apocalyptic drama The Road , and when they talked about the film at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, they did it together. ... Full Article
Viggo Mortensen has said that he is unsure if his Lord Of The Rings character will appear in The Hobbit . Speaking to Coming Soon , the actor revealed that filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson are currently concentrating... ... Full Article