Viggo Mortensen To Give Up Movie-Making?
Somebody grab the smelling salts, because I think Dawn is going to need them after that headline. Her favorite hunka-hunka-burnin'-love gave an interview in which he says he just might give up acting altogether:
“In the past week I’ve been from LA to Japan to Korea to Poland to here,” he hisses, describing in near disbelief the travel itinerary for his current promotional tour. “It’s ridiculous! It’s not a healthy way to be. But, as it happens, I’m taking measures to change that.” Which are? “No more movies. I haven’t said yes to one in over a year. I’ve been in all these well-received movies and it seems like I should be doing some more, but there’s other things I want to do. It’s not the right time.”But when will you come back to film-making? When will you know it’s the right time? Long, long, pause. A sigh. “I really don’t know.”
It seems that good ol' Viggo has discussed leaving movies and all they entail behind, but hasn't yet had the wherewithal to do so (he admits that he doesn't need the money; he claims "I only want enough money to live and to travel, to send my kid to school [his 20-year-old son Henry is at Columbia University in New York] and to contribute to society.")
But fear not, gentle fanatic; it just might be that the good Vigster might not be quite ready to put paid to his movie career quite so fast:
I ask him, half-jokingly, why he hasn’t made any comedies. “I don’t get offered many,” he says. “Because it’s something I haven’t showed that I can do yet.”Yet? What does ‘yet’ mean for his retirement plans? He answers enigmatically, says that life is a game that keeps moving and that the rules change even as you’re playing it. And then he gives a content little smile that seems to say: Viggo Mortensen, multi-hyphenate movie star, may be abandoning the business, but not for long.
So there you have it, folks...he might, but then again, he might not.
And I might have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch...but then again, I might not. Maybe I'll surprise myself and have bologna. Hey, things change, and you gotta go with the flow...like a twig on the shoulders of a mighty stream.
