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[wowie]

it's interesting reading these older quotes and think how different things would be without LotR

Maybe GI Jane will be the film to make Henry's dad a star; maybe it'll happen with Mortensen's next movie, tentatively titled The Blouse Man, in which he plays a travelling salesman who shakes up the life of a Catskills housewife during the tumultuous summer of 1969. Or maybe neither movie will make him a big deal. Mortensen doesn't worry about it too much. If he gets offered good roles, he'll take them; if not, he'll write poetry and take photographs and travel with his family. And he'll do it quietly.


Viggo Mortensen by Steve Pond
USA , Sep '97

Comments

[urgayleswoman.livejournal.com]

GI Jane is the movie that brought him to my attention, at least. Didn't WOTM and PM come out around the same time? I remember after falling in love w/ Urgayle/Viggo Mortensen I saw reviews for those two movies on Siskel and Ebert. They both were impressed w/ Viggo's performances. I remember they liked just about EVERYTHING about WOTM.

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking they were all released about a year apart? APM was the only one I'd seen pre-LotR fame. WOTM must not have gotten much attention because I would've seen that one had it been around... right up my alley, so to speak!

[urgayleswoman.livejournal.com]

It didn't get much attention. All I saw was the great review on Siskel and Ebert but I never went to see it at the theater b/c I could never find a theater that was showing it! I did not go on the opening week, but maybe a couple of weeks later? So I never saw it until later. Perfect Murder was everywhere though b/c Michael Douglas and Gwenyth Paltrow were in it.

[tigerlilysvs.livejournal.com]

AWOT had a great review in EW at the time too and I remember wanting to see it but it never showed up near me. I think IMDB shows it received very limited release. I don't think I saw Viggo in anything pre-LOTR except for Witness and he was just a cute farmer boy in that. Thank god for LOTR!