Viggo Mortensen explains why he hasn’t completed a franchise film since taking part in Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Viggo Mortensen was already a longtime actor previous to taking part in Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, however his profession was definitely propelled to new heights. Whereas many actors would use the success of a serious franchise to leap to different franchise motion pictures, Mortensen didn’t take that path.
Whereas talking with Vainness Truthful, Mortensen was requested why he by no means made one other franchise film after Lord of the Rings. The actor defined that it’s not as a result of he’s against the concept; he simply hasn’t been offered with one which caught his consideration.
“I don’t actually search for or keep away from any form of style or any dimension funds. I simply search for fascinating tales,” Mortensen mentioned. “It doesn’t matter to me what the style is or what the funds is or who’s making them. I might by no means do a film simply because so-and-so is directing it. It needs to be concerning the story. And if I feel I’m proper for the character, that all the time comes first.“
Mortensen continued: “That goes for franchises. If any person got here to me with X film, the third half or the ninth half, and I believed it was a terrific character and I wished to play that character and I believed I had one thing to contribute, I’d do it. I’m not towards it. However they’re not normally that good. I imply, to me, they’re not normally that well-written. They’re form of predictable. I imply, in fact, there’s all the time the problem of if I run out of cash.“
It’s attainable that Mortensen might return to the Lord of the Rings franchise with the upcoming Gollum film. The undertaking, which is ready to be directed by Andy Serkis, is anticipated to happen through the timeline of The Fellowship of the Ring. Serkis has teased that “characters we acknowledge” may be coming again, with the most certainly candidates being Gandalf and Aragorn. Each Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen have expressed a tentative willingness to return, however Mortensen just lately mentioned it must make sense.
“I don’t know precisely what the story is, I haven’t heard,” he mentioned. “Perhaps I’ll hear about it will definitely. I like taking part in that character. I realized quite a bit taking part in the character. I loved it quite a bit. I might solely do it if I used to be proper for it by way of, , the age I’m now and so forth. I might solely do it if I used to be proper for the character. It could be foolish to do it in any other case.“
