Viggo Mortensen Talks Returning to 'Lord of the Rings' Franchise, His Relationship With Costars
30.05.2024 - 03:35
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Viggo Mortensen opened up about all things Lord of the Rings related in a series of recent interviews.
The 65-year-old star famously played Aragorn alongside Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen and more stars in the original trilogy of movies.
He revealed how well the cast did at keeping in touch, recalling one of the last times that they all communicated. Viggo even weighed in on reprising his role in a future LotR movie and revealed a surprising way that he repurposed one of his props from the franchise.
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While on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show with Julia Cunningham, Viggo explained that the cast does make an effort to maintain contact all these years later.
“I think the other guys, which are much more social media savvy than I am, they may have more things, and I know they go to conventions and do lots of things involved in that universe, but we stay in touch,” he said. “We just lost one of our best friends, Bernard Hill, who played King Théoden, who appears first and the second and the third. Great actor, really good friend. And we all communicated about him. That’s been our most recent communication. So several of us do stay in touch. It’s really nice.”
During the interview, he added that “of course” he’d be “open” to playing Aragorn again in the future.
“It’d be great to revisit that universe. But I don’t know how that would happen exactly. Of course I’m open to it,” he explained.
Speaking to British GQ, he was asked if he’d be back for the new spinoff movie The Hunt for Gollum.
“I don’t know exactly what the story is, I haven’t heard. Maybe I’ll hear about it eventually,” he told the outlet. “I like playing that character. I learned a lot playing the character. I enjoyed it a lot. I would