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wowieThe rest of the leads also seemed to just click into place during the auditions. Getting Viggo Mortensen was Goldwyn's only "moment of panic," the director says, because he wanted a free spirit type, but definitely not a hippie, and he had his heart set on the actor from "A Perfect Murder," Gus Van Sant's "Psycho."
"When I saw some of Viggo's work, I thought, that's always who I've had in my head. I realized there is not one other actor anywhere who could play Viggo's part other than Viggo. He has this kind of complexity and mysteriousness to him. He doesn't have to say much and you get a lot."
Actor Goldwyn side-stepped cliches for summer of '69 directorial debut
Robin Blackwelder. SPLICEDwire, splicedonline.com February 24, 1999
"When I saw some of Viggo's work, I thought, that's always who I've had in my head. I realized there is not one other actor anywhere who could play Viggo's part other than Viggo. He has this kind of complexity and mysteriousness to him. He doesn't have to say much and you get a lot."
Actor Goldwyn side-stepped cliches for summer of '69 directorial debut
Robin Blackwelder. SPLICEDwire, splicedonline.com February 24, 1999
