The actor reflects, at the request of FOTOGRAMAS, on this impossible connection between Middle-earth and 17th-century Spain.
Aragorn and Alatriste: the most ambitious ‘crossover’ in history? In a meeting organized by FOTOGRAMAS to celebrate the legacy of the film ‘Alatriste’ on the occasion of our 75th Anniversary, the actor Viggo Mortensen has played to compare two of his most iconic characters on the big screen. And in doing so he has realized the many qualities they share, despite their differences. “they would have gotten along“, assures the actor in the interview you can see in the video above.
Mortensen gave life to Aragorn in the trilogy of ‘The Lord of the rings‘, in which Peter Jackson adapted the famous story of J. R. R. Tolkien with a blockbuster that is cinema history. A public phenomenon and winner of numerous Oscars (its third installment, ‘The Return of the King’, shares the record for the greatest number of statuettes, eleven, with ‘Titanic’ and ‘Ben-Hur’), ​​these films launched the stardom to Viggo Mortensen and they gave him the role for which he is most remembered by the general public. Three years after his adventures in Middle Earth, the actor accepted the role of Captain Alatriste in one of the most ambitious productions in Spanish cinema. next to the manager Agustin Diaz Yanesbecame the legendary character in ‘Alatriste’ and learned to embody a different kind of hero.
But, are there so many differences between the two men? The actor says of Aragorn that he is “as a mixture of the Celtic world and the Norse world“, Alatriste already defines it as “rougher“, “a hard, dry person, with few but very good friends“. And what unites them? “They are very good team workers“assures Mortensen, and continues: “They are very brave and quite honest and direct, telling it like it was for them. They were leaders, for example, who took great care of their peers. I guess they would get along, they would respect each other“. If Viggo Mortensen says it, we believe it!
Source: Fotogramas
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