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Viggo Mortensen on his return to directing with 'The Dead Don't Hurt'
euronews (in English)
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30/11/2024
With an extensive career as an actor, the Danish-American is back behind the camera with a second feature film. He speaks to Euronews about the experience.
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After a 40-year career in front of the camera as an actor, Viggo Mortensen is back behind
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the camera with a second feature film, The Dead Don't Hurt, in which he's the producer,
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director, scriptwriter and soundtrack composer while also playing the lead role.
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The Dead Don't Hurt is a love story between two foreigners in the Wild West, in which
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he stars with the Luxembourger Vicky Creeps.
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Directing and directing at the same time is a challenge.
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Many are more efficient, but you get more tired.
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Like everyone of his generation, Viggo Mortensen grew up watching westerns.
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If the genre experienced a golden age in Hollywood 60 years ago or more, in recent years we've
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seen a revival.
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Whether through the big studios or independent films like this one, westerns have been returning
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to the big screen with some regularity.
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Kids my age, or people from my generation, not just boys but girls also, there were lots
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of western series on TV, they always showed old western movies on TV at night, on the
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weekends.
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And you could still, it was sort of the end of the golden era, you could still in the
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early 60s anyway, until the mid 60s you would see once in a while go see a new western in
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the movie theatre.
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Not like now where it's very unusual, but it's a business you know.
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If westerns do well and people like them, whether it's on TV series or a movie like
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The Dead Don't Hurt like this one, then they'll make more.
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The Dead Don't Hurt is now showing in film theatres in countries like Portugal, Poland
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and Ukraine, and can be seen in the US through the streaming platform Paramount+.
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