Mortenson is a reluctant star in his own film with ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt,’ saying ‘but the next one, no, absolutely not, I’m not acting.’
However Canadian-esque Mortensen is or isn’t, his participation at this year’sThe Dead Don’t Hurt
“If you direct a film right, though, you should be exhausted. It’s a good feeling, because by that point you know that you can’t do anything else to help this movie be the best that it can be.”stars Vicky Krieps as a French-Canadian flower-seller named Vivienne struggling to adapt to life in a corrupt Nevada town in the 1860s while her carpenter husband Holger is off fighting in the Civil War.
“After my mom passed, I started looking at these picture books again, and just thinking about the things she had told me about growing up, which made me start to imagine her life back then,” Mortensen recalls. “She never told me she went out to the woods and saw a knight, but she had a rich imagination. Had she not been a woman of her time and a housewife and mother of three kids, maybe she would’ve been an actress. It was easy to imagine her as a little girl, and then the story grew from there.
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