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1.11.2004
from tORN:
Nazz Chats with Viggo & Liv: Viggo Mortensen and Liv Tyler play the lovers Aragorn (the returning king of the title and the elf, Arwen:
[question courtesy of Anna from The Age, Melbourne] They share their thoughts on working together and the love affair between their characters.
Liv: "He played with my ears a lot [laughs]! He had this habit of liking of slipping a stroke of my ears into as many shots as he could when we were together."
Viggo: "I liked the ears. Very nice."
Liv: "The most impressive thing, I think for everyone, about Viggo, was he got this phone call and had to get on the plane and arrive the next day."
Viggo: "She's changing the subject [laughs]!"
Liv: "He was so passionate and I learned a lot from Viggo about the material. He was always encouraging us to speak more Elvish together in our scenes. So in many ways, I credit Viggo for making our love story feel so rich and believable in many of the ways it is."
Viggo: "I appreciated the fact that Liv seemed to understand these characters' relationship was like those couples you see from time to time, maybe there's one in your own family, that have been together for a long time, decades maybe - but not out of convenience. They're just comfortable together and you can just see it in the way they move around each other, the way they almost absent-mindedly touch, finish each other's sentences or show affection to one another. They understand that their union is more important than their individual existences. I think that's really the story of Arwen and Aragorn.
That's something they really value - and in a very limited time we had to get to that fairytale relationship without it seeming to be a cliché; and that there was something solid beneath that."
01.06.2004
There's an article on Viggo Mortensen in Backstage.com. Click on the following to read the interesting article: Good Fellow
01.03.2004
First of all, don't forget that Viggo Mortensen is on the cover of January 2004's Vanity Fair. Now, here's an oldie but a goodie from the Metro Toronto daily free paper:
Rings star is Picture Perfect
Toronto Metro Paper
Monday, December 1, 2003
About 70 anxious media people from all over the world are waiting in a lecture room at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. With them are a flock of various handlers, harried tourism officials and university types.
They're all here on Friday to meet a photographer whose work is exhibited simultaneously at the university and at the City Gallery in a two-part contemporary show called "Mo Te Upoko-o-te-ika/For Wellington".
Quite a stir for an artist still emerging in this particular field. But, of course, it's no ordinary photographer. It's Aragorn. And although we've been sternly admonished by a matronly official to ask only about the photographic art, everyone knows we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the fact that Viggo Mortensen is the heartthrob hero of The Lord of the Rings, the third and final installment of which will premiere here today. (It opens in North America on Dec. 17)
Mortensen knows it, too. "I'm sure most come because I'm an actor who've had the strange luck of being in a popular movie," he says of the expected audience for his photo exhibits and for the poetry reading he's scheduled to give the next day. "But that doesn't bother me. It doesn't affect how I took the photographs."
Eccentrically dressed in gray and brown, and barefoot, the crew-cut Mortensen looks nothing like the rugged, long-haired Aragorn. He speaks softly and keeps himself busy turning the tapes of reporters' tape recorders when he hears them run out on the table in front of him.
It's clear he has a real passion for art, which is a blend of long-exposure abstracts, photo series from various sets, "accidental" shots and landscapes.
"I have a better time, better memories, if I've paid attention, and photos are a way doing that," he says. "The end result, that's secondary."
The exhibits, which run until Jan. 25, and the poetry readings are fundraisers for various Wellington scholarships and a planned film school. Mortensen, who also paints, wanted to give something back to the city that was his home during the filming of the trilogy. "I'm returning a favour" and "it gives people a chance to think about something else besides the movie."
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