Name: Viggo Mortensen's Audition Secret: a Nap
Uploaded: 2021-02-10T21:05:23.000Z
Duration: 6 min 29 s
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THE MIGHTY, THE MAGNIFICENT, VIGGO MORTENSEN!

YOU'RE JOINING US, THANKS FOR BEING WITH US TONIGHT.

I READ YOU HAVE BEEN DOING SOMETHING THAT I MISS GREATLY.

HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS AND WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE?

>> WELL, WHEN I SAY, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN TO LIKE LAST WEEK I

SAW A MOVIE A COUPLE OF PLAYS, YOU ARE SAYING THEY SHOULDN'T BE

THEY WORKED REALLY HARD STARTING LAST AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, YOU

KNOW, IT WASN'T JUST THE FACT THAT IF YOU WEAR MASKS AND

OBSERVE SOCIAL DISTANCING AND ALL THOSE THINGS AND ARE

CAREFUL, IT'S NOT THAT YOU CAN MAYBE AVOID GITTING SICK OR

DYING, OR GETTING SOMEONE ELSE SICK, THERE ARE OTHER BENEFITS,

TO DOING THE RIGHT THING WHICH IS YOU CAN GO TO THE MOVIES.

SINCE THAT TIME ON AND OFF WITH SOME SHUT DOWN, SOME CURFEWS AND

SO FORTH IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY PEOPLE HAVE BEENING

I'VE BEEN GOING TO THE MOVIES FOR MONTHS.

YOU GO WITH MASKS ON, KEEP YOUR DISTANCING, THERE'S BEEN NO

INFECTIONS OUTBREAKS FROM MOVIE THEATERS OR PEOPLE GOING TO SEE

IT'S AN INCENTIVE TO DOING THE RIGHT THING.

SO I THINK THAT THAT CAN HAPPEN IN THE UNITED STATES TOO BUT

EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GET ON THE SAME PAGE OBVIOUSLY.

>> James:  I'M SURE THAT WILL BE PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD.

(LAUGHTER) NOW THAT YOU'VE SET IT, I THINK

THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF 300 MILLION PEOPLE WILL JUST GO OH,

I GOT IT, YEAH JUST, SORRY WHAT YOU'RE TALKING IS, LOOK AFTER

OBVIOUSLY YOUR BIG BREAK WAS LORD OF THE RINGS FILMS.

WHAT WAS YOUR EARLY CAREER LIKE BEFORE THAT MOVIE KIND OF

>> IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO HAVE A CAREER AS AN ACTOR.

NOT ALL THAT MANY SUPREME OVERNIGHT SUCCESS AS AN ACTOR.

IT TOOK ME A LOT OF TIME THE OMAKE THAT JOB, I TOOK A LOT OF

ODD JOBS, MOVING FURNITURE, SELLING ICE CREAM, WHATEVER.

I JUST GOT SMALL PARTS, NEVER GOT A BIG PART FOR MANY YEARS.

WHEN I WAS IN THE WAITING ROOM, YOU'RE SITTING THERE WITH OTHER

GUYS THAT ARE YOUR AGE AND YOU KNOW THEY'RE YOUR COMPETITION.

AND MY AUTOMATIC WAY OF DEALING WITH IT I GUESS WAS THAT I WOULD

IF I WAS REALLY NERVOUS WOULD I SLEEP SO I WOULDN'T BE STREFD.

>> James:  WITH THE OTHER ACTORS YOU WOULD JUST HAVE A

>> I WOULD JUST DOZE OFF SNORING AWAY AND SOMEBODY WOULD COME AND

I FOUND OUT SOMETIME LATER THAT I'D GOTTEN A REPUTATION FOR

I'D FULLY WAKE UP WHENEVER THE AUDITION WAS OVER.

HE FELT LIKE SLEEBY MORTENSEN, HE'S PROBABLY SMOKING TOO MUCH

YEARS LATER I RAN INTO ONE OF THE GUYS THAT WAS ALWAYS THE

HE SAID, YOU DID THIS AWFUL THING TO US, YOU CAN.

>> Dan:  THIS PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE, AND I SAID NO, THAT'S

>> James:  I'M NOT SURPRISED IF YOU DID RG HERE, EVEN GROUND

>> WELL, THERE'S THE FATHER, 80 YEARS OLD, I PLAY THE SON, LANS

HENDERSON REMARKABLE, REMARKABLE JOB, STAND THE TEST OF TIME.

IT'S STRANGE I'D SAY, THEY ARE VERY DIFFERENT IDEOLOGICALLY.

BE THE FATHER LIVES ALONE, ON THE FARM WHERE MY CHARACTER GREW

UP AND HE IS A HARD PERSON FOR ANYONE TO DEAL WITH, HE JUST

SAYS ANYTHING THAT COMMENTS INTO HIS HEAD, MANY TIMES IT'S THE

AND IT WAS INSPIRED, MY FATHER WASN'T LIKE THAT, REALLY,

ALTHOUGH HE WAS A PERSON OF HIS GENERATION, KIND OF INFLEXIBLE

IN SOME WAYS BUT NOT LIKE THIS CHARACTER.

IT WAS AFTER MY MOM'S FUNERAL AND SHE HAD HAD DEMENTIA LIKE

BUT I GUESS I WAS JUST TRYING TO REMEMBER THINGS ABOUT MY MOM

I WANTED TO SORT OF KEEP THAT MEMORY ALIVE BECAUSE I LOVED HER

I GUESS WRITING THIS STORY IT'S A FICTION BUT IT'S BASED ON

THOSE FEELINGS ABOUT HER PRIMARILY, WAS A WAY TO KEEP HER

MEMORY ALIVE, WRITING IT INTO A STORY AND TRYING TO GET IT MADE

INTO A MOVIE AND EVEN UNTIL NOW SHOWING IT TO PEOPLE AND TALKING

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