Quote: Unshod

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."

Playing the hero suits Mortensen fine
Philadelphia Enquirer, Jan '02