FOX News Ashley Dvorkin is joined by Mortensen and co-star Lance Henriksen to discuss the film s forthcoming release
Viggo Mortensen, who lost both his parents to complications surrounding dementia, pulled from his real-life trauma when writing his new movie Falling.
In the film, which Mortensen also directed, he stars as John, a gay man, who takes in and cares for his conservative father, Willis (Lance Henriksen) who is battling dementia.
The 62-year-old actor wasn t trepidatious about handling the sensitive subject because he lived it many times over while caring for his parents who died two years apart. There s been a lot of [dementia in my family] and I ve seen it over and over through the years. even in a caregiver capacity. So that helped me write the character of Willis and the way he relates to others, Mortensen told Fox News.
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“As a baby, I crawled out of the crib twice, and they had to look for me,” Viggo Mortensen tells me. “Found me with a dog one time in the woods.”
If you were to ask me which actor was most likely, as a baby, to have been found wandering in the woods with a strange dog, Mortensen would be at the top of the list. Throughout his career, before and since his breakout as Aragorn in
The Lord of the Rings, Mortensen has cultivated an aura of quiet eccentricity about him, bolstered by the various facts of his life: He lives abroad in Spain, runs his own independent publishing company, writes poetry, unceremoniously appears fully nude onscreen, and, at least until 2016, used a flip phone.
Viggo Mortensen Delves Into His Directorial Debut Falling with Co-Star Lance Henriksen [Exclusive]
Viggo Mortensen Delves Into His Directorial Debut Falling with Co-Star Lance Henriksen [Exclusive]
Viggo Mortensen makes his directorial debut with the new drama Falling while taking the lead opposite genre legend and Hollywood icon Lance Henriksen.
Falling marks the directorial debut of celebrated actor Viggo Mortensen, who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and is an accomplished musician in his own right. He teams up with genre icon and Hollywood legend Lance Henriksen to play a father-son duo that is somewhat based on Mortensen s own upbringing. Though don t call
Falling Movie Review
Director: Viggo Mortensen
Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 1/23/21
Opens: February 5, 2021
This is one of those rare movies that have their writers sitting in the director’s chair as well, taking a major role, even playing some chords on the piano to punctuate the difficulty of his life. In other words, “Falling” has more than a touch of autobiography: Mortensen imaging and re-imaging his life under the rule of his father who, having looked at the baby he helped create greeting him not with “say dadda” but “I’m sorry I brought you into this world. To die.” We can only wonder how the little one was able not only to survive his daddy’s acerbic personality but why this baby, later on in life, would cater to almost every whim of the dad whose temper could burst forth at any time and whose progressive dementia would turn him into a fierce, cantankerous fool who not only brought a baby into the word to die but would regularly describe his two ex
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