Here follows an excerpt of a longer Viggo Mortensen interview in the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet(I leave out repetitions from the one I posted last week):

VM: “I’ve only fought with wooden swords as a child, but in connection to the movie I’ve had plenty of real swordfighting lessons from the legendary swordmaster Bob Anderson. Aragorn is after all a true warrior, who with his life and sword will defend the little hobbits. By the way I had also a lot of riding lessons, and we were taught to talk in a special English dialect,” Viggo explains about his preparations for the role.

VM: “Aragorn neither loves nor fears to fight. He regards it as his duty to fight Evil and make sure the ring ends up the right place. The hobbits live in a peaceful society that you can compare for example England. They live in a safe and peaceful ignorance, while the warriors Aragorn and Boromir constantly protects and secretly all the time fights the evil in the surrounding woods. I compare it to a fight for democracy.
   This film is the greatest thing I’ve experienced. And it has been fantastic to work with some of the best actors in the world. Among others Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee. It’s also an incredibly great story that doesn’t just live because of the many special effects. You can compare LOTR with Star Wars if you want, but I think that the characters in LOTR are more individual, original and expressive. Star Wars is more of a surface-story, while Peter Jackson has worked a lot with expressing the characters’ minds and their doubts and hopes,” Viggo explains.

Many women find you incredibly sexy in movies?

VM: “So I’ve heard, and my colleague Sean Bean says so too! He plays the warrior Boromir,” Viggo says with a big laugh.

Does the movie show some of Aragorn’s more romantic sides?

VM: “Yes, Aragorn has for a long time been deeply fascinated and in love with the royal elf girl Arwen, played by Liv Tyler, and that love developes. I will not reveal anymore for now.”

For the time being you can walk around unnoticed, but surely that’ll soon be over?

VM: “Yes, with the role of Aragorn the anonymous life is over. LOTR is maybe the greatest movie in the world ever, and of course that creates attention. I really don’t know how I feel handling the huge fame that follows such a role. Maybe I should go hide myself a couple of years in Middle Earth,” Viggo says, but promises that he will do everything he can to attend to the movie’s opening here in Denmark on the 19th of December.

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