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Podcast: Exploring Tolkien
Episode: An Interview with Viggo Mortensen
Description: Here’s the next episode in our series of interviews from the December 2, 2003 roundtable discussions (our Peter Jackson and Ian McKellen episode)! You can tell that Viggo is thoughtful and soft-spoken, but has a driven personality that allows him to inhabit roles like Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings.
In this episode, Viggo Mortensen discusses:
What he does (as a newly discovered sex symbol) with all those phone numbers in his pockets.
What he did to train for the films.
What it was like coming on set the day before principal filming began.
What it was...