You’re making a film. You want a sword. You occur to have starred in one in every of probably the most well-known fantasy movies of all time which itself has some well-known swords in it. Plus, wouldn’t you recognize it? You’ve acquired one mendacity round. What are you doing to do? Not use your individual sword?
That’s principally what occurred to Viggo Mortensen on his newest movie, The Useless Don’t Damage. The Western, which is now in choose theaters, options fantasy sequences, one in every of which required a sword. So, the star of the Lord of the Rings trilogy went and grabbed Andúril, Aragorn’s sword from the sequence, which he simply so occurred to personal. Nevertheless it wasn’t fairly that easy.
“We had the whole lot for this sequence with a knight,” the actor/director informed GQ Journal. “We had discovered this nice, spirited horse, the correct of saddle, and we made a medieval form of blanket, and we had the costume for the knight. Every part was proper, after which I stated, nicely, we should always have a sword. And I did look and there have been some good ones and I assumed, nicely, it is likely to be form of good to make use of this one which I had as a result of it’s actually good. However I knew I must ask permission as a result of I’m certain any individual would discover it, even in case you solely see it for a couple of seconds, it’s not likely important to the scene and positively to not the film, it’s simply one thing in passing that you just both see otherwise you don’t.”
So if you wish to ask permission to make use of a prop from the Lord of the Rings, who do you name? The director of Lord of the Rings, after all.
“So I did ask Peter Jackson if he’d be all proper with it, and he stated, “Properly, is it essential within the story?” I stated, no, it’s not, truly. You hardly discover it, however any individual will, in all probability. He stated it was okay with him however that I ought to ask the film firm,” Mortensen stated. “So I contacted them and so they had been advantageous with it. They realized it wasn’t important, it wasn’t going to attract loads of consideration to itself. And so they had been very good about it, and so they gave us permission. That’s why we did it, simply because it appeared proper. It was form of a last-minute accident.”
An accident that, now we’re guessing, made you conscious that Viggo Mortensen has a brand new film out known as The Useless Don’t Damage. And, in that very same interview, the King of Gondor did admit he can be all in favour of returning to the franchise for the upcoming The Hunt for Gollum.
“Positive,” Mortensen stated. “I don’t know precisely what the story is, I haven’t heard. Possibly I’ll hear about it will definitely. I like enjoying that character. I discovered loads enjoying the character. I loved it loads. I’d solely do it if I used to be proper for it when it comes to, you recognize, the age I’m now and so forth. I’d solely do it if I used to be proper for the character. It could be foolish to do it in any other case.”
Learn extra from the actor/director over at GQ.
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