Viggo Mortensen

One of the many shocks in "The Road," the screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel, comes when actor Viggo Mortensen pulls off his tattered, grimy clothing to luxuriate in a waterfall. The hunky star who played Aragorn...

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...or not he'd be up for appearing in The Hobbit. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You've been doing a lot of publicity for this movie… VIGGO MORTENSEN: Three months straight. I've done a lot because this movie needs awareness. Especially in a season...

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...post-apocalyptic novel The Road makes strange fodder for a blockbuster film released over Thanksgiving weekend. But actor Viggo Mortensen, who portrays the Man in the movie about a desperate father struggling to survive with his son in...

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Now there's suddenly new excitement about "The Road," thanks to ace reviews, especially for the harrowing performance of Viggo Mortensen. Declared the Hollywood Reporter: "Director John Hillcoat has performed an admirable job of...

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...a pretty picture, but it stirs considerable thought. Loder: You knew the book before the movie was offered to you, I suppose? Viggo Mortensen: No, I didn't. And I had read all of McCarthy's books, but I hadn't gotten around to that. I...

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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 with...

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...steadfastly refuse to eat people and instead forage for what they can glean from the odd soda machine or still-intact pantry. Viggo Mortensen delivers a haunting, sensitive portrayal of a father determined to shepherd his son (Kodi...

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...based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulizter Prize winning novel. (2929/Dimension Film) If there were such a thing as a typical movie star, Viggo Mortensen wouldn't be it. The star of "The Road," which opens Wednesday, is never in the gossip...

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Viggo Mortensen stars as Father in "The Road," opening Wednesday and based on Cormac McCarthy's novel about a father and young son wandering a devastated American landscape - a place he couldn't go to research. On Movies: Mortensen...

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...many shocks in “The Road,” the screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, comes when actor Viggo Mortensen pulls off his tattered, grimy clothing to luxuriate in a waterfall. </p><p>The hunky star who...

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