Viggo Mortensen Asked Peter Jackson If He Could Use Aragorn’s Sword in a New Movie, Says He’d Star in New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie Only ‘If I Was Right For the Character’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Viggo Mortensen revealed in an interview with GQ UK magazine that he used Aragorn’s iconic sword Andúril from “Lord of the Rings” in his latest movie, “The Dead Don’t Hurt.” Mortensen wrote and directed the 19th century Western, in which he stars as a Danish immigrant separated from his love (Vicky Krieps) during the Civil War.
For one fantasy sequence in the film, Mortensen asked his “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson if he had his permission to use Aragorn’s sword again on screen.
Mortensen played the character in Jackson’s original “Rings” trilogy and kept the sword after production wrapped. “We had everything for this sequence with a knight.
We had found this great, spirited horse, the right kind of saddle, and we made a medieval kind of blanket, and we had the costume for the knight,” Mortensen explained. “Everything was right, and then I said, well, we should have a sword.
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