Viggo Mortensen gives bizarre defence of straight actors playing gay roles

[hewontgo]

Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen gives bizarre defence of straight actors playing gay roles ahead of new queer film https://t.co/n0y0YsNtUr
- PinkNews (@PinkNews) November 10, 2020

Mortensen makes his directorial debut with 'Falling', which he also wrote.
It sees him playing a gay man called John who finds himself caring for his racist and

Comments

[crystalzelda]

me @ him since 2000fucking3

[ruby_chalice]

I used to stan him hard until his 2016 comments about lack of diversity in movies.

From then he's gone from bad to omg, so much worse.

[crystalzelda]

I’ve blocked him out of my head since he said the n word so now I just reject the idea that he’s a real person so I can just watch LotR unbothered. God you’ve already destroyed JKR and Johnny Depp. Can I just have this one franchise

[belandlix]

I think John Rhys-Davies has already beat Viggo to the punch when it comes to problematic LOTR actors lol and he plays TWO of the characters! I've had to just fully disassociate every time I do a rewatch.