Viggo Mortensen Used A ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Sword In His Latest Film
deadline.comViggo Mortensen needed just the right sword. Then he realized he had the perfect one at home. Mortensen’s latest film is The Dead Don’t Hurt, a Western set in the 1860s that follows free-spirited Vivienne (Vicky Krieps), a Franco-Canadian who falls in love with Holger (Mortensen), a Danish rancher.
When Holger goes off to fight in the American Civil War, Vivienne is left alone to fight in her own war at home. Mortensen spoke to British GQ to discuss his new film.
It was mentioned that in one fantasy sequence, you can see what looks like his sword, Andúril, from Lord of the Rings. “We had everything for this sequence with a knight.
We had found this great, spirited horse, the right kind of saddle, and we made a medieval kind of blanket, and we had the costume for the knight,” Mortensen said. “Everything was right, and then I said, ‘Well, we should have a sword.’ “And I did look and there were some good ones and I thought, ‘Well, it might be kind of good to use this one that I had because it’s really good.
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