“I’m sorry for you, and I’m sorry for me,” Viggo Mortensen quipped to an Italian journalist Sunday morning before a press conference at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
The comment was a reference to the European Football Championships, currently taking place over the Czech border in Germany, and dominating talk on the ground at the festival.
Mortensen’s Denmark and Italy both crashed out of the tournament on Saturday after bruising 2-0 defeats. The Lord Of The Rings and Green Book actor had promptly exited a dinner hosted in his honor by the fest that evening to catch the game, which had been delayed due to bad weather in Germany.
Mortensen had been in town to receive the festival’s Honorary President’s Award and present his latest feature The Dead Don’t Hurt.
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