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Colin Farrell suffered panic attacks under water while filming 'Thirteen Lives'. The 46-year-old actor stars in Ron Howard's new movie - which tells the real life tale of a 2018 rescue mission to save a group of 12 boys and their soccer coach in a network of caves in Thailand - and admitted it was one of the most "terrifying" experiences of his career, despite there being a series of experts on hand to offer guidance and help. Asked about the underwater scenes, he told 'Entertainment Tonight': "Terrifying in a word. Terrifying. It really was - it was scary. "I'm not a great swimmer anyway, not...
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Viggo Mortensen "couldn't breathe" while filming a diving scene in Ron Howard's latest movie 'Thirteen Lives'. The 63-year-old actor stars as British civilian cave diver and rescuer Rick Stanton in the biographical survival film about the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue, which saw a junior football team and their coach trapped in a cave for a period of 18 days. And the 'Lord of the Rings' star had to train to dive for the tough underwater sequences to recreate the moment 12 people got stuck inside the Thai cave. Real-life Rick and Viggo discussed his experience over Zoom so he was prepared for the...
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Viggo Mortensen and Caleb Landry Jones are to lead the cast of the Vietnam War film 'Two Wolves'. The duo have boarded the movie that is being directed by Alex Gibney – who is best known for documentaries such as 'Taxi to the Dark Side' and 'Going Clear'. An official description for the picture reads: "The film tells the story of helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson who, during the Vietnam War, turned against his fellow soldiers to halt the massacre of unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai, and rescued survivors of the atrocities. "But far from being treated as a hero, Thompson was branded a tr...
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Viggo Mortensen and Kristen Stewart will star in 'Crimes of the Future' together. The two actors have signed up to appear in David Cronenberg's upcoming sci-fi thriller, which tells the story of a popular performance artist whose act involves growing new organs in his body. According to Deadline, the film is set in a distant future where humans have evolved beyond their “natural state and into a metamorphosis, altering their biological make-up” and so Saul Tenser embraces having Accelerated Evolution Syndrome, sprouting new organs in his body, with the removal of such body parts becoming a gru...
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Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell and Joel Edgerton have boarded the cast of 'Thirteen Lives'. The trio will star in Ron Howard's new film, which tells the story of the Than Luang cave rescue in 2018. The plot centres on the international rescue effort to save a boys football team who became trapped in a cave in Thailand after it was flooded by heavy rain. The rescue made headlines across the globe as all 12 boys, as well as their coach, were saved. Viggo, Colin and Joel will star as rescuers Richard Stanton, John Volanthen and Dr. Richard Harris respectively. Weir Sukollawat, Thiraphat Sajakul, ...
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Viggo Mortensen would be up for a return to 'The Lord of the Rings'. The 62-year-old actor played Aragorn in Peter Jackson's fantasy trilogy based on J.R.R Tolkien's novel and admits that he would be keen on a return to the franchise – which is being adapted for a new TV series. Asked if he would consider coming back to the 'The Lord of the Rings', Viggo said: "Yeah, why not? Tolkien, that's a universe. There are so many influences. The foundation of his stories is Celtic mythology and history, and Nordic mythology and history, and languages. That's fascinating." The 'Green Book' star admits t...
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Viggo Mortensen turned down the role of Wolverine as he didn't want to play the role in "endless" movies. The 62-year-old actor was approached to play the clawed mutant superhero in the first 'X-Men' movie in 2000 but rejected the opportunity to be in the Marvel film as he didn't want to commit to several sequels. Viggo said: "The thing that bothered me at the time was just the commitment of endless movies of the same character over and over. I was nervous about that." The 'Green Book' star recalled how he took his son Henry to a meeting with director Bryan Singer, where the comic book fan poi...
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Viggo Mortensen has apologised to residents of Boonville in New York for Lance Henriksen's character in 'Falling' calling the town the "ugliest" in the state. In Mortensen's directional debut, his character John Peterson's father Willis Peterson (Henriksen), who has the early stages of dementia, slams Boonville as "the ugliest town in New York state." And the 'Lord of the Rings' star has admitted some living in the town might take offence to the remark, but he's insisted just because the character dislikes Boonville doesn't mean to say he does. He said: “Apologies to Boonville. Sometimes peopl...
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