Viggo Mortensen Got Peter Jackson’s Permission To Use LOTR Sword For New Movie
The Lord of the Rings films are more than 20 years old but the former stars of the history-making franchise still find ways to integrate them into new projects. In his latest film, Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen called upon Aragorn’s sword once again in a scene for a blink-and-you-miss-it moment.
The Dead Don’t Hurt, a Western set in the 1860s, follows free-spirited Vivienne (Vicky Krieps), a Franco-Canadian who falls in love with Holger (Mortensen), a Danish rancher. When Holger goes off to fight in the American Civil War, Vivienne is left alone to fight in her own war at home. Speaking to British GQ, Mortensen mentioned that in one dream sequence, his character needed a sword and luckily he had the perfect one at home.
“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. Everything was right, and then I said, well, we should have a sword,” the actor explained. “I did look and there were some good ones and I thought, well, it might be kind of good to use this one that I had because it’s really good.”