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Viggo Mortensen Breaks Down Adapting The Road | Book vs. Movie Interview

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Actor Viggo Mortensen reflects on bringing Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Road" from page to screen. 📖🎬

In this classic interview, Viggo discusses what made adapting the post-apocalyptic masterpiece so challenging, how the film captures the book's intense emotion and atmosphere, and his experience working alongside director John Hillcoat and co-star Kodi Smit-McPhee.

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20 Comments

@bushcraftmumma 12 years ago

One of the hardest movies to watch for me.

@unrealityproduction 14 years ago

All i can say is: perfect book, and perfect movie

@Galeocerdo123 14 years ago

The book will blow your mind even harder

@mistaando9741 2 years ago

nobody is talking about how thoroughly read through, bookmarked, highlighted and sticky noted his copy of the book is

@daoyang6055 8 years ago

Viggo is a great actor. God damn, to think he was Aragorn after watching this film. Such great skills as an actor.

@dalesco4205 5 years ago

I'm not into worshiping celebrities, I don't even own a TV or follow the MSM. But I remember Viggo Mortensen about 10 years ago coming into Finnegan's Pub in Madrid while I was working there. He ordered a bottle of beer and seemingly just came to watch a soccer match on TV, I don't even know which teams were playing. There was just a couple of regulars there and myself when he came in. One of them went up to him and asked for an autograph, he said "sure" and signed the piece of paper he was presented. I saw celebrities in real life a couple of times and what I found sobering about him was that he didn't have any little court of ass-lickers around him. He was there on his own, didn't say anything, simply watched the match and left.

@philipheubeck 1 year ago

That’s how you annotate a book

@paullewis6858 5 years ago

Just read the book & brought me here. Beautifully written & the horror is in my head.

@bilbo_gamers6417 3 years ago

the boy was played amazingly. never questioned his performance once. absolutely brilliant.

@TheWordIsTheWay1 8 years ago

This is a post-Apocalyptic film unlike any other I've seen, focusing more on emotions, than anything else.

I find it to be sorrowful and even a bit frightening how ravaged the world really is. The depravity and inhumane resolve of some people is shocking but very realistic.

Anyone who watches this will have this stuck in their head for a while.

@lespaulranger 14 years ago

he doesn't seem very full of himself... he definitely seems reverent of mccarthy

@TheLibRider 14 years ago

Bullshit I've worked with him and he's a great guy. What you see is what you get with Viggo, and he does not work with Prima Donna's. He only works with people who enjoy life as much as acting. Val Kilmer is a man full of vanity, and himself. Trust me.