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Interview topics range from mate to the diversity of Viggo's interests, with focus on Hidalgo and the Native American history and culture that are touched on in the film. Viggo talks about the challenge of remaining his own person, finding space and time for art, and his love for Henry.

A barefoot Viggo Mortensen talks about Tolkien's work and his role as Aragorn. "He was the greatest traveler and huntsman of his age," Mortensen says about his quiet, stoic role. "There is no character in this story, in these books, that has traveled more extensively and had more contact with other cultures, races, languages, and an appreciation and understanding of the differences of all the free peoples of Middle-earth.... He has an understanding that the most precious thing that any intelligent being possesses is free choice."