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Home • Viggo Mortensen • Articles & Interviews • Viggo Mortensen: ‘Often people are desperate, so I do what needs to be done’

Viggo Mortensen: ‘Often people are desperate, so I do what needs to be done’

Interview by Alice Fisher

Viggo Mortensen, photo Suki Dhanda
‘I just want to be in movies that I wouldn’t mind seeing 10 years from now’: Viggo Mortensen. Photograph: Suki Dhanda for the Observer

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Published: Apr 5, 2015 in The Guardian.


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