Viggo Mortensen
The Green Book star could have played Wolverine in X-Men instead of Hugh Jackman. Mortensen told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he turned it down years before he ever starred in Lord of the Rings.
“The thing that bothered me at the time was just the commitment of endless movies of that same character over and over. I was nervous about that,” Mortensen said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “And also there were some things — I mean, they straightened most of them out, but I did take [my son] Henry to the meeting I had with the director as my sort of good luck charm and guide. In the back of my mind, I was thinking he could learn something, too, because I did let Henry read the script and he goes, ‘This is wrong. That’s not how it is.'”
Henry ended up telling the director, Bryan Singer, his opinions about the script, which is pretty hilarious and adorable.
“All of a sudden, the director is falling all over himself and then the rest of the meeting was him explaining in detail to Henry why he was taking certain liberties,” Mortensen said. “We walked out of there, and Henry asks if he will change the things he told him about, and I say, ‘I don’t think so. I’m not going to do it anyway, because I’m not sure I want to be doing this for years. And then, a couple of years later, I’m doing three Lord of the Rings, so who knows.”
Mortensen’s choice was probably for the best!
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