Quote of the Day

[wowie]

How do you 'dive' into fight scenes?

Well the first day I met the fight choreographer, Bob Anderson, who's been around a long time - he taught Errol Flynn to fence and represented the UK at the Olympics. I went into this room and there were all these stunt people standing there and screaming and yelling. He had them all pumped-up and he stood me in front of them and said "Okay, go!" And they all started running at me, and I was like, "Holy shit!" He said "stop" and they all stopped. Then he told me: "This is what you're going to be dealing with so let's get to work..." He gave me a sword and it was just, like, crazy for two days. The first thing I did on camera was swordplay and I liked it. It was fun.

The Ranger - Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn, by Martyn Palmer, Total Film magazine, 2002



not the clearest of shots, but I love 'em anyhow...

Comments

[randomrattle.livejournal.com]

One of my FAVE quotes about Viggo is how Bob Anderson started him off. :D

Bob Anderson has trained a bazillion swordfighters, you know? Many of the Highlander guys, the Star Wars guys ... you name it; he's likely had a hand, er, sword in it!

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

I would love to see more of that behind the scenes training kinda stuff. It just does something to my insides!

[randomrattle.livejournal.com]

Meeee tooooo! And that sorta-blonde Viggo without the beard, looking young and slightly uncertain as to what he got himself into, but totally committed already to it --- those pictures are loverly!

*wants to tackle him*

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

But in ranger costume... that's the key!

[tigerlilysvs.livejournal.com]

And brandishing his looooonnnnng sword!
I adore the behind the scenes pics. They should make a DVD with just those. (New Line are you listening? There is more money to be vacuumed from my pocket).

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

chi-ching!

I hear that money just rolling from my pocket to New Line's!