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Article: `Lord of the Rings' co-star Viggo Mortensen was late to the game.
- Article from:
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- January 3, 2002
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Byline: Steven Rea
Viggo Mortensen walks into the room at New York's Waldorf-Astoria barefoot, like a hobbit, or like Peter Jackson, the director who cast Mortensen as the mysterious Aragorn, son of Arathorn, also known as Strider, in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" and its subsequent installments.
"No, I'm not doing a hobbit thing or a Peter Jackson thing," Mortensen says amicably, referring to his unshod extremities. "I'm doing a Viggo Mortensen thing."
Mortensen, who made his film debut as an Amish farmer in Peter Weir's 1985 Harrison Ford thriller, "Witness," is a serious fellow who didn't win the assignment to play the ...
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