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Mortensen Struggles With Germans And Germany
11 December 2008 10:59 AM, PST
Lord Of The Rings star Viggo Mortensen hated playing a Nazi author in controversial new movie Good - because he has never been fond of Germans or Germany.
Many of the actor's relatives lived in German-occupied Denmark during the second world war, and he has always harboured resentment towards the nation.
He tells WENN, "I've heard stories from my aunts and uncles and my dad, I had an attitude about Germans, a prejudice about them.
"I speak several languages and I'm interested in languages. I can read a German paper slowly and can almost figure it out, yet I don't speak German and I realise I don't want to speak German. I don't like the way it sounds and I don't like being in Germany."
But Mortensen, who portrays a German who joins the Nazis to further his career as an author, admits making the film softened his feelings towards the country.
He adds, "By playing a German and trying to be honest about it I sort of got past that prejudice and judgment... Germans are people too!"
from HERE
great, thanks viggo.. so much for being open-minded and not prejudiced. :( cause we germans were all nazis and still are!
Germans are people too? thanks again, that made your statement a lot better. we have to respect every creature, even the most inferior, is that what you were trying to say?
11 December 2008 10:59 AM, PST
Lord Of The Rings star Viggo Mortensen hated playing a Nazi author in controversial new movie Good - because he has never been fond of Germans or Germany.
Many of the actor's relatives lived in German-occupied Denmark during the second world war, and he has always harboured resentment towards the nation.
He tells WENN, "I've heard stories from my aunts and uncles and my dad, I had an attitude about Germans, a prejudice about them.
"I speak several languages and I'm interested in languages. I can read a German paper slowly and can almost figure it out, yet I don't speak German and I realise I don't want to speak German. I don't like the way it sounds and I don't like being in Germany."
But Mortensen, who portrays a German who joins the Nazis to further his career as an author, admits making the film softened his feelings towards the country.
He adds, "By playing a German and trying to be honest about it I sort of got past that prejudice and judgment... Germans are people too!"
from HERE
great, thanks viggo.. so much for being open-minded and not prejudiced. :( cause we germans were all nazis and still are!
Germans are people too? thanks again, that made your statement a lot better. we have to respect every creature, even the most inferior, is that what you were trying to say?