Why I love Viggo Mortensen
What is it about stars that cause us, mere mortals, to feel we could love them? Actually, they are also mere mortals; just more visible and probably a heck of a lot wealthier. I think one thing is that they never show up to dump on us. They are so perfect from afar.
Okay, the obvious would be that Viggo Mortensen is absolutely hot and perfect. ‘Cause he is. However, I want to point out that I had no idea who Viggo Mortensen was until maybe a year ago. No, I do not live in an isolated cabin, on a remote mountain, as I have threatened to move to many times recently, and if you know of an empty one, I am still willing to move there.
Seriously, I really did not know who he was. Sure, I had seen the Amish movie he was in and vaguely remember thinking “that guy’s cute” and I had seen G.I. Jane and probably thought the same thing, I’m sure I did, but I really do not remember. And who didn’t think that Aragorn was absolutely fantastic. But, I never put together those roles as the same actor. No one said I was MENSA, you know.
My brother was, but I was several points below, enough that he would have known it was the same actor but I did not.
I am a writer and when I cast my novels, it helps me to visualize them by having photos on each individual character’s sheet. I have a character in my current project, who I had a description for but no photo yet. I was not in a hurry as there were other things to do and I did have a detailed description of him that was working for me.
One day, I am watching those second discs for Lord of the Rings I and III (I don’t own II yet – and does anyone want to explain to me just why it is that LOR II costs more than I and III put together?), and here is this soft spoken man being interviewed. It was Viggo Mortensen.
Next thought, “This is a soft spoken MAN. A MAN who is soft spoken … and gentle sounding and a MAN.”
Then, as I listened, I thought, “this guy fits my character.” So, I start to search for photos to put in my character sheet. The internet has more photos of Viggo Mortensen than a school yearbook has of students. Fortunately, for him, a lot of them are duplicates. Now, you can’t search for photos of Viggo Mortensen without finding interviews of him. So, I read them.
He cares about the world and he cares about people. He’s considerate, without pretense, sensitive and an artist and a musician, and he speaks up on the issues that are important to him, and the list goes on, including the fact that he has a girlfriend.
Okay, so he’s only 99.9% perfect. The really weird thing though, was when I plugged his picture into my character chart, and I went to make corrections to my character’s features to make sure I did not make a mistake and say two different things about my character, the only thing I had to change was the color of his eyes. I had his features down in there already, without realizing who I was describing.
Sometimes I really wonder who lives in my brain.
Hey, first of all let us know when your novel will be released!
But how do you know that he has a girlfriend? I researched on him I didn’t find anything about this fact, I don’t think that he mentioned something like that in an interview. So please tell us who you think she is.
btw Have you watched Eastern Promises? If not, you have to
I am nearing the end in the first of a five volume middle grade to young adult novel. I know the agent I will send it to first. I have to tweek the ending yet and then turn it over to school teacher daughter for her “mechanics” edit. Then, the world will know that I have finished it. When I find an agent, the universe will know. When I find a publisher, A Distant Galaxy will be informed; so hold your ears.
I have not seen Eastern Promises. It almost feels like an invasion of his privacy and yet I hear he is fantastic in it.
I am not finding the girlfriend article now. That’s another thing nice about him, he stays out of the Hollywood spotlight. I may have come across an article about his ex girlfriend, whose name was Lola. There’s a good article on him in Men’s Vogue http://www.mensvogue.com/arts/feature/articles/2008/03/viggo?currentPage=3
All I can say is, sigh. And drool.
And I am totally linking to your post.
I find myself returning to this one quite often also.
Pass the tissues.
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