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Viggo Mortensen: Acting
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Synopsis: The owner of an aircraft salvage company (Viggo Mortensen) is reported killed in a crash. However, his wife (Andie MacDowell) knows better, and she decides to find him and his secret bank accounts. She travels around the world, and winding up in Cairo, she meets Liam Neeson, who helps her uncoverRead More
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Mortensen had a small cameo role in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, which starred his father Viggo. (According to the elder Mortensen, It was Henry, a fan of The Lord of the Rings books, that persuaded his father to play the character of Aragorn in the film series.) His mother is musician Exene Cervenka.
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Having ... far concentrated on artistic, and consequently independent endeavours, now Viggo accepted that he needed to involve himself in more commercial works in order to maintain his family. He tried out for lead roles, but despite his evident good looks and charisma, his intensity and sallow Nordic features saw him cast as low-lifes and villains again and again. In Boiling Point he played the murderous attack dog partner of con man Dennis Hopper as they battled against secret service agent Wesley Snipes (Hopper, also his co-star in The Indian Runner, would become a close friend). Then, in Ruby Cairo, he embezzled a fortune from his business and faked his own death, leaving wife Andie MacDowell to pick up the pieces.
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Viggo was surrounded by a crowd of about thirty screaming women (according to this guy) and there was this guy just standing there, being quiet, so Viggo chatted with him. As soon as the fellow introduced himself Viggo recognized that it was a French Canadian, not a French, name, remarked on that, and began speaking to him in French. He went on for about fifteen minutes. Which was unfortunate, as the guy does not actually understand French, but being genetically Canadian was too polite to interrupt!
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Now Viggo was on a roll. Next came The Prophecy, where Christopher Walken played an archangel at war with God and on Earth to find a 100% wicked soul to help him in his struggle. Viggo made a very impressive Lucifer who, rather than helping Walken in his sinfulness, as you'd expect, decides he could do without a rival in beastliness and so rips out Walken's heart and eats it. There would be more dark goings-on when he reunited with Reflecting Skin director Philip Ridley for The Passion Of Darkly Noon. This would see Brendan Fraser as a young man horribly confused by an ultra-strict religious upbringing and driven to madness by the sound of Viggo making love to his heart's desire, Ashley Judd.
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