Viggo Mortensen, artiste anticonformiste / A Nonconformist Artist / Un Artista Anticonformista

Voici une excellente entrevue faite avec Viggo Mortensen par le Men's Journal en octobre 2009. Bonne lecture! J'en profite pour mentionner le retour sur les planches de Viggo, après 20 ans d'absence. Il jouera dans la pièce Purgatorio début décembre jusque fin janvier, à Madrid.
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A History of Defiance: Viggo Mortensen
October 23rd 2009
Viggo Mortensen publishes writers no one else will, doesn’t mind campaigning for a lost cause (Dennis Kucinich!), and is about to star in a movie so bleak few thought it could ever get made.



By Daniel Mirth

It’s hard to imagine Viggo Mortensen pouncing on Oprah’s couch. You don’t see him doing the Starbucks shuffle for the paparazzi, hawking baby photos to celebrity tabloids, or getting caught in a Lake Como liplock with Sienna Miller. That’s not the Viggo Mortensen way. Just look at him: hazel-eyed handsome, square-jawed and angular, but no trace of Hollywood jackass. He shows up in a Camry to our interview in a state park about an hour and a half from Watertown, New York, a leafy military town near Lake Ontario where he graduated from high school and still visits occasionally. Dressed in a David Wright New York Mets T-shirt tucked into wide-leg blue jeans, he looks as if he’s going to the hardware store to buy a nail gun. Has one request: that the photographer please not airbrush out the jagged scar above his upper lip. Viggo doesn’t need or want your Photoshop. Viggo doesn’t need most of the illusion, really. Loves acting, the immersion, even the rehearsals, but tries to avoid everything else. Hell, when he lost the Oscar in 2008 for best actor, he danced. [...] pour lire la suite:  http://www.mensjournal.com/viggo-mortensen