Posts with tag "Viggo Mortensen"

Stars 'Speak' Out About New Documentary

Posted Dec 8th 2009 at 02:00 PM by Denise Warner

Matt Damon, Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover and others lend their talents to the new History Channel documentary special called 'The People Speak,' based on Howard Zinn's book 'A People's History of America.' PopEater sat down with a few of the actors and Zinn to discuss 'Speak,' which transformed from a book, to a traveling stage show and now finally into the documentary. In the feature, ...

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Roasted Baby on Spit Was 'Too Much' for 'Road' Director

Posted Nov 25th 2009 at 04:58 PM by Bryan Alexander

Readers of Cormac McCarthy's best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Road' remember it well -- the scene where the Man discovers a headless baby roasting on a spit, left by a fleeing bunch of cannibals. It's kind of a hard one to forget. But eat your Thanksgiving turkey without fear of losing it in the critically-lauded movie, as director John Hillcoat took that scene out of the final cut ...

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'Wire' Hero Michael K. Williams Loved Getting 'Viggo-tized' on 'The Road'

Posted Nov 19th 2009 at 06:00 PM by Bryan Alexander

Michael K. Williams might have a legion of hardcore fans (including a certain President of the United States) from his defining role as Omar in the epic series 'The Wire,' but that didn't stop him from being awed by working with Viggo Mortensen when shooting 'The Road.' "Come on, we've all been Viggo-tized before," Williams says of the 'Lord of the Rings' stud and 'Road' co-star. "He has that ...

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Who Makes the Best Career Decisions in Hollywood: ACTOR EDITION

Posted Nov 18th 2009 at 08:00 PM by Tricia Romano

It's November, which means it's officially time to think about the Oscars. People are already placing bets on the top performances even if they haven't seen them yet (think the soon-to-be-released and highly-anticipated 'Nine'). There are some actors who have been on the road to Oscardom ever since they began emoting; others found a way out of their earlier career mishaps and have reinvented ...