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Article: Viggo makes his mark from Russia with blood; Tattoo time:Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 5, 2007
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Byline: Baz Bamigboye
VIGGO MORTENSEN'S covered in tattoos, from his neck right down to histoes, in David Cronenberg's smashing new film Eastern Promises.
When I bumped into the actor during the Toronto Film Festival, he explainedthat the temporary tattoos caused him no painalthough it did take the film's makeup team four hours to apply the 43 tatsneeded for an extraordinary, and I mean truly amazing, scene in which heappears naked.
(This particular sequencea bloody confrontation set in a London saunais going to be the most talked-about movie moment of the year.) The tattoodesigns were applied to sheets of transfersa bit like the ones that ...