Viggo Mortensen on 'The Road' and the importance of human connections
27.11.09
STATEN Atoll, N.Y. -- At first glance, the actor Viggo Mortensen looks like just another dignitary. Strikingly handsome, the star of the "Lord of the Rings" movies is standing on the sidewalk skin the Regency Hotel on Manhattan’s Park Avenue, taking a smoke break in his stocking feet. Adorned in a colorful soccer jersey, he’s doggedly to miss.
The shirt’s colors, bright stripes of blue and red, are those of the San Lorenzo soccer line-up in Buenos Aires, where Mortensen spent part of his youth.
"They’re my childhood and adulthood idols, they can do no improper. That kind of unconditional support I don’t have for everybody," said the actor, sitting down for a eat one's heart out and rambling conversation in a restaurant inside the hotel.
It’s hard to picture Mortensen, a soundlessness man who speaks with sensitivity and intelligence, as a rowdy sports fan, but the 51-year-old native of New York Bishopric, Venezuela, Argentina, Denmark and finally Watertown, N.Y., is a collection of contradictions. Not one for doing a lot of peel publicity, here he was talking up his latest movie, "The Road," with considerable enthusiasm.
Source: SILive.com