{"id":54079,"date":"2012-03-07T00:38:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T05:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=54079"},"modified":"2012-03-07T00:41:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T05:41:11","slug":"viggo-mortensen-charms-the-crowd-more-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/07\/54079-viggo-mortensen-charms-the-crowd-more-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Viggo Mortensen charms the crowd&#8230; (more video!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/07\/54079-viggo-mortensen-charms-the-crowd-more-video\/dscn1055\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54080\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-54080 no-lazyload\" title=\"Viggo Mortensen's Coolidge Award\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1055-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Wow.\u00a0 What a guy.\u00a0\u00a0You know, I&#8217;ve always admired Viggo\u00a0Mortensen as an actor, and I do think he makes a wonderful Aragorn, but in terms of crushes I was always more of a Faramir sort of gal.\u00a0 Until now&#8230;\u00a0 Mortensen is charming, funny, humble, laid back, erudite, fascinating &#8211; oh, and did I mention, very handsome?\u00a0 During the various events at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolidge.org\/\">Coolidge Theatre<\/a>, Mortensen showed himself to be worthy of every bit of praise you&#8217;ve ever read about him.\u00a0 The internet is buzzing with excitement following his appearances in Boston; and here at TORn we&#8217;ll be bringing you a three-part\u00a0report on all the fun.\u00a0 (This is a man who has A LOT to say!)\u00a0 Meanwhile, here&#8217;s a video of the moment when he actually received the award (the best I could get in a crowded room of excited folks!)<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"500\" height=\"369\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zMU04c1Fq8A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTrue to his easy-going\u00a0form, at the moment of accepting the award he cracks a joke.\u00a0 He also, having graciously accepted the honorarium cheque which went with the award, asked the Coolidge if they would receive it back; as he put it, having told the audience how important it is to support independent movie houses such as the Coolidge, he wanted to &#8216;put my money where my mouth is&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of other highlights from the events:<\/p>\n<p>Following the press Q&amp;A, as he left the stage, he paused, looked at the huge &#8216;Viggo Mortensen&#8217; image on the screen behind him, and said, &#8216;You spelled my name wrong&#8230;&#8217;\u00a0 There was a horrified moment as the organisers checked in panic &#8211; then he smiled, &#8216;No, just kidding&#8230;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he got to keep the Armani suits he wears in <em>Eastern Promises<\/em>, he replied that he did keep the blood-red\u00a0tie and double-breasted suit, and wore them to the movie&#8217;s premiere &#8211; but, &#8216;I&#8217;m not usually a suit person&#8230;\u00a0 You&#8217;re lucky I&#8217;m wearing shoes!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the evening event, as we applauded him, Mortensen stood and applauded <em>us<\/em>; and several times during the day he mentioned how, without <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>, he might not have got to meet us all.\u00a0 He certainly has a way about him which makes you feel that he cares about everyone, cares about how he interacts with you and how he makes you feel.\u00a0 And I think he genuinely does.\u00a0 Like I said, what a guy&#8230;\u00a0 Watch this space for more details of all he had to say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 What a guy.\u00a0\u00a0You know, I&#8217;ve always admired Viggo\u00a0Mortensen as an actor, and I do think he makes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":54080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,162,10,5,91,149,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-events-screenings","category-lotr-cast-news","category-lotr-movies","category-events-other","category-lotr","category-mortensen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1055.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-e4f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54079"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54093,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54079\/revisions\/54093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}