Viggo Mortensen Showed Up to ‘Lord of the Rings’ Set With an ‘Eye Bulged Out’ After Surfing Accident, Could Only Be Filmed From the Side: ‘Black Eye, Shut, Like a Boxer Swollen’
Bogdan Hofbauer
For anyone attending the “ Lord of the Rings ” trilogy theatrical re-release, pay attention to the iconic Mines of Moria set piece in “The Fellowship of the Ring” and you may notice for the first time that Viggo Mortensen ‘s Aragorn is only filmed from the side for much of the sequence. That’s because Mortensen got into a surfing accident in the middle of production and showed up to set with a bulging, swollen black eye. “The thing with these movies, of course, is we shot all three of them at
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