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Dangers of working on a set.

That’s what I said.

seawitchkaraoke

Okay but you forgot the best part! During the scene where Aragorn, Gandalf and the other Main CharaktersTM ride ahead to go shout at the gate (and talk to the mouth of sauron in the extended edition) they were very firmly told only to ride up ahead “this far” because that area was cleared and beyond that it wasn’t.

But. Viggo Mortensen is absolutely mad and lead them just…. a bit farther than that. Everyone else was very scared they might blow up any second. Viggo said it “added a little extra tension”.

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#they just don’t make behind the scenes stories like lotr anymore

ophidahlia

Viggo was just Like That™ for the whole trilogy, taking method acting to extreme levels:

he would spend multiple days walking overland to locations in full pack, sword, & armour when everyone else was travelling in trucks

refused to use any prop swords that weren’t actual steel

basically lived in the forest in-costume, sleeping rough under the sky, even fishing & foraging for his food when possible

often spent hours in the barn just bonding with the horses. He adopted the horse he rode, Uranus, after filming ended

repaired all his own gear by hand, which was often since he never took it off

had a tooth knocked out during filming but had the crew simply glue it back in place so they could keep filming

the instructor who taught everyone swordplay said Viggo was the best swordsman he had ever trained

carried his sword literally everywhere & practiced non-stop, resulting in the cops being called when locals reported “a wild man swinging a sword around his head" outside a gym in Wellington

an orc actor fucked up & accidentally threw a dagger directly into Viggo’s face, but Viggo just deflected it with his sword. They kept that shot

infamously broke 3 toes kicking that helmet but stayed in-character & sold his very real scream as part of the scene. They also kept that shot

Viggo insists on doing his own stunts; in The Two Towers where Aragorn is unconscious & floating down the river, the strong current pulled him underwater for so long that a rescue team had to go in to save him. Viggo survived by grabbing a boulder on the riverbed and pulling himself to the surface

It’s probably more accurate to say that Aragorn played Viggo Mortensen in the off season, so I’m 100% unsurprised to hear he put a whole crowd of fellow actors in genuine mortal peril for a 12% increase in authenticity

daniellefen

I just have to say, this undersells the point about Viggo being called the best swordsman. The man who said that was Bob Anderson. If you don’t know that name, he was a behind the scenes Hollywood legend. He was sword master for Errol Flynn. He was in charge of the lightsaber fights for the original Star Wars trilogy, and was Darth Vader’s combat double. He choreographed the swordplay in The Princess Bride, The Mask of Zorro, The Three Musketeers, the first Pirates of the Caribbean. If you can think of an iconic swordfight in the 20th century or the beginning of the 21st, he was probably behind it.

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Tigger did this! She shook snow off her foot too close to the door once, realised it got a person faster than climbing the rail on the screen door and thumping down… and voilà, my cat knocked on the door. Best was when we had company, and they’d see it go down. “Did… did your cat just knock on the door?!” I swear, the math face as they pictured her strolling up and knocking with her front paw knuckles or something was always awesome.