American actor Viggo Mortensen arrived in Karlovy Range already on the eve of the opening of the movie competition. On Friday, the consultant of Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings will settle for the award of the president of the competition Jiří Bartoška and current the movie Till the top of the world, for which he wrote the script, directed it and nonetheless stars in it.
In regards to the arrival of one of many predominant stars of the 58th annual Karlovy Range competition they knowledgeable organizers on social networks. Australian actor Geoffrey Rush additionally arrived on Thursday night, who’s a member of the jury this time.
British native Clive Owen, who was nominated for an Oscar for his efficiency within the movie Touched from 2004, may also obtain the competition president’s award on the closing ceremony. Different company can be German actor Daniel Brühl and award-winning director and producer Steven Soderbergh, the organizers introduced this Wednesday.
Sixty-five-year-old Viggo Mortensen shouldn’t be solely engaged in appearing. He writes poems, information information, takes pictures. As a result of character of a mobster within the thriller Japanese Guarantees directed by David Cronenberg, he didn’t hesitate to immerse himself in Russian. And it paid off for him, for this function he was nominated for an Oscar in 2008. The second nomination earned him the movie That is our world from 2016, the place he raised six youngsters in response to his personal concepts as a unusual and charismatic father deep within the forests exterior of civilization.
Within the third, Mortensen was nominated for an Oscar for the function of a former bouncer and small-time con artist who chauffeurs a black pianist by means of the Nineteen Sixties American South, the place racial prejudice nonetheless persists, within the 2019 movie Inexperienced E-book.
