Viggo Mortensen wondered if The Road, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, would ever make it to theaters. The powerful saga of a father and son searching for sanctuary in a dangerous post-apocalyptic world was completed more than a year ago.

Now, after endless delays, audiences will finally get a chance to catch Mortensen’s riveting performance opposite a young new-comer to watch, Aussie Kodi Smit-McPhee. Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf found out why Mortensen almost said no to the role.

“I was just tired. I’d been going from one film to another and I didn’t want to do something if I wasn’t going to be able to give one hundred per cent. But, then I realized that the fact that I was really exhausted was appropriate for the character….”

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Filed under: Parade by admin | 11.25.2009
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