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Sala Baker about Viggo at the Motor City Comic Con back in May (source: ScreenRant):

>So this is the guy who plays Strider and Aragorn in the films, and later becomes the king. And this is the type of person that we ended up getting, and the coolest guy on the face of the earth. We basically had an issue with our stunt team, where we had some lawyer issues, right. 38040 stuntmen had to get a lawyer. One of the guys who was working with us wasn't very forthcoming, and he said that we didn't work the last two weeks that we did. We had to get a lawyer to try and help with this, and the fees just kept growing and growing, it was like seven or eight weeks of lawyers' fees. By the end of it, we were like, "Oh my gosh, this is horrible because now we're going to have to fork up a lot of money to pay this lawyer, and none of us have the money."

>And so we're having meetings about these lawyers' fees. And then the next day we go to talk about it, and people just start dodging it like it's the plague. We're like, "What's going on? Could this be that lawyers' fee just disappeared?"

>And they said someone had paid the lawyers' fees for all the stuntmen and women, and we were like, "What?" They say, "Yeah, and the person who paid it doesn't want you guys to know."

>Later on, you find out that it's Viggo [Mortensen], out of his own money. He paid for the lawyers' fees for the men and women who had fought in battle with him every day, every night, and took care of us. Not many people know that story. I think this is the first time I've actually said it in front of a crowd, but this is the guy that is your king. So we'll forever be thankful for the headbutts and the fees... because there's no one else who could play it, play that character.

Viggo with part of the LOTR stunt team. As we know Viggo developed a very close relationship with them as he did his own stunts and they worked a lot together

“I got hit in the head once while I was living in New York,” he says, making a tidy segue while on the topic of injuries. “It was 1983, and I was trying to make it as an actor and working at a restaurant in the garment district. It was Sunday afternoon and very quiet. I had the Times in my hand and I was crossing the street when a car ran through a red light and hit me in the hip. I shot into the air and the newspaper went flying, then I got hit in the head and then I had no feeling. It was very dreamy and I thought I was paralyzed. I was lying on the street, bleeding out of the back of my head, when a wino bent down in front of my face. He smelled like strawberry wine and his hair was greasy, and he put his hand under the back of my head and said, ‘Feels kind of mushy.’ Then he looked around and said, ‘I gotta go. Korea.’ And like an apparition, he was gone.”

“You must have thought, ‘This is it.’”

“I did,” he says. “Something like that makes you pay attention to your surroundings. As an artist you observe the world. Sometimes it takes an accident to make you appreciate why you’re here, and you ask yourself, ‘What can I do to contribute to the world."

It's from this article: https://nuvomagazine.com/magazine/autumn-2007/viggo-mortensen?srsltid=AfmBOoorvv5018lCt8-VhnXLFwghBsHn9Vchr0-Lr8ZdKCDN2NFHFCDI

The whole article is very good!

Viggo as Alatriste

A shot from the deleted scene of Aragorn healing Faramir

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Serious Viggo

Viggo Mortensen on his adolescence: "I wasn't one for parties or social interaction. I was kind of awkward in how I would interact. I used to wear pyjama tops or shirts because they were comfortable. People thought I was really strange. I have one now that I wear sometimes with footballs on it."

Stunt actor Sala Baker reveals how Viggo Mortensen paid the LOTR stunt team's lawyer fees when they fought for better salaries, calling Viggo "the coolest guy on the face of the earth"

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When an actor looks majestic on a horse

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Orlando full of praise for "wonderful, generous" Viggo in a 2013 interview. "He can paint, he can write, he can sing, he can dance, he can play music, he can take you fishing, he can take you into the wild... He's the guy that does it all. I tell you, most men wish they were Viggo Mortensen."

New photo of Viggo; with Ralph Fiennes in a restaurant in Budapest, Hungary.

Did you know that in 1983 Viggo was hit by a car? And of course he talks about it in an interesting way