Viggo Mortensen explains why he hasn’t achieved a franchise film since enjoying Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Viggo Mortensen was already a longtime actor previous to enjoying Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, however his profession was actually propelled to new heights. While many actors would use the success of a significant franchise to leap to different franchise films, Mortensen didn’t take that path.

While talking with Vanity Fair, Mortensen was requested why he by no means made one other franchise film after Lord of the Rings. The actor defined that it’s not as a result of he’s against the concept; he simply hasn’t been offered with one which caught his consideration.

“I don’t really look for or avoid any kind of genre or any size budget. I just look for interesting stories,” Mortensen stated. “It doesn’t matter to me what the style is or what the funds is or who’s making them. I might by no means do a film simply because so-and-so is directing it. It must be about the story. And if I feel I’m proper for the character, that all the time comes first.“

Mortensen continued: “That goes for franchises. If anyone got here to me with X film, the third half or the ninth half, and I believed it was an ideal character and I wished to play that character and I believed I had one thing to contribute, I’d do it. I’m not in opposition to it. But they’re not often that good. I imply, to me, they’re not often that well-written. They’re sort of predictable. I imply, of course, there’s all the time the problem of if I run out of cash.“

It’s potential that Mortensen might return to the Lord of the Rings franchise with the upcoming Gollum film. The undertaking, which is ready to be directed by Andy Serkis, is predicted to happen throughout the timeline of The Fellowship of the Ring. Serkis has teased that “characters we recognize” may be coming again, with the almost certainly candidates being Gandalf and Aragorn. Both Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen have expressed a tentative willingness to return, however Mortensen just lately stated it must make sense.

“I don’t know exactly what the story is, I haven’t heard,” he stated. “Maybe I’ll hear about it will definitely. I like enjoying that character. I realized quite a bit enjoying the character. I loved it quite a bit. I might solely do it if I used to be proper for it in phrases of, you realize, the age I’m now and so forth. I might solely do it if I used to be proper for the character. It could be foolish to do it in any other case.“