The duo met at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, where Mortensen unveiled preview footage from 'The Lord of the Rings.'
provided to festivalgoers, Cronenberg proclaimed, “Viggo’s my kind of actor,” explaining that he combined the aura of a leading man with the versatility of a character actor. For his part, Mortensen testified, “I don’t think I’ve ever felt more like I was on the same wavelength with a director as I am with David. I like his way of telling a story.”
At the film’s press conference, Cronenberg bristled when the panel’s moderator, Cannes veteran Henri Béhar, suggested that the movie’s violence was “poetic.” The director objected: “I didn’t want it to be poetic and balletic. The things that you’re saying make me cringe, because I don’t want that to be true. It’s very efficient. It’s quick in the movie. It’s quite brutal, the aftermath is quite brutal, and, I have to say, it’s a subjective thing.
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