{"id":54232,"date":"2012-03-13T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T20:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=54232"},"modified":"2012-03-13T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T20:50:37","slug":"viggo-mortensens-visit-to-boston-part-2-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/13\/54232-viggo-mortensens-visit-to-boston-part-2-new-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Viggo Mortensen’s visit to Boston – part 2 (new video!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On Monday 5th March The Coolidge Theatre <\/a>in Boston honoured Viggo Mortensen with their Coolidge Award.\u00a0 (More information about the award, and the prestigious list of former winners, can be found here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The first event of the day was a press Q&A, which TheOneRing.net attended.\u00a0 There were about twenty reporters in the room, from publications ranging from student magazines to Boston\u00a0newspapers, and the sound of cameras clicking was constant throughout the session.\u00a0 Mortensen was charming, easy-going and friendly;\u00a0he began the session by commenting on the stage set up – ‘Nice flowers!’ – and ended, as reported here <\/a>last week, with a teasing joke to the organisers.<\/p>\n

When the floor was opened to questions, there was the usual hesitation whilst everyone wonders who will be brave and go first.\u00a0 A dragon is never afraid, so TORn’s own greendragon – ’tis I! – raised her hand.\u00a0 Of course I wanted to ask Mortensen something to do with Middle-earth!\u00a0 As you will recall, when the two Hobbit<\/em> movies were first being discussed, there was talk of the second movie being a ‘bridge’ movie, telling the tale of events between The Hobbit<\/em> and The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.\u00a0 In a 2006 interview with Ain’t it cool News<\/a>, Peter Jackson said that he hoped to include ‘Aragorn\u00a0protecting The Shire. [I’d]… love to work with Viggo\u00a0again.’\u00a0 I asked Mortensen about this, and if he would like to have gone back to Middle-earth; he responded with some surprise, (‘Did he say that?!’) and said, ‘It sounds like a lot of fun but I never heard from Peter!’\u00a0 He added that he loves to go back to the ‘beautiful country’\u00a0New Zealand when he can, and that he also is looking forward to seeing how The Hobbit<\/em> will be adapted for the big screen.<\/p>\n

(More plus video after the break!)<\/p>\n

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This led him to reflect on the fans, and he commented on the reaction he had received the night before, when he showed up at the movie screening (as reported in part 1<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0It had been evident, in his singing, that he was nervous – and he even\u00a0commented that night that he had been more nervous singing then, than\u00a0he was\u00a0in the film studio.\u00a0 In his thoughts on the devotion of the fans, he shed some light on why it had been a little overwhelming.\u00a0 He began by commenting that a decade has passed, and still the passion of the fans is evident.\u00a0 You can hear what he went on to say in this video:<\/p>\n