Despite having never shot a movie, even a short film, Green Book star Viggo Mortensen recalled first pitching his directorial debut, Falling, to poker-faced international distributors. "It's one thing to know me as an actor, but I hadn't directed anything," Mortensen recounted while appearing virtually at the Toronto Film Festival as part of a co-production panel.
Early on, Mortensen and production designer Carol Spier and cinematographer Marcel Zyskind had shot and edited some footage set around a farm in Ontario to give potential investors confidence around the Hollywood actor finally getting into the director's chair.
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