Viggo Mortensen on turning down Wolverine function: Didn’t wish to be doing this for years

Oscar-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen has mirrored on passing over the function of the fan-favourite mutant Wolverine within the X-Men collection, saying he wasn’t able to decide to taking part in the identical character for years and years.
The 62-year-old actor additionally recalled that his son, Henry, who was round 10 then, had learn the script of 2000’s “X-Men”, the primary within the long-running comedian e-book diversifications, and located it to be “wrong”.
“The factor that bothered me on the time was simply the dedication of infinite motion pictures of that very same character time and again. I used to be nervous about that.
“And also there were some things — I mean, they straightened most of them out, but I did take Henry to the meeting I had with the director as my sort of good luck charm and guide. In the back of my mind, I was thinking he could learn something, too, because I did let Henry read the script and he goes, ‘This is wrong. That’s not how it is’,” Mortensen informed Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
Hugh Jackman finally performed the half from 2000 to 2018 within the movie collection.
In an early assembly, the actor stated, X-Men director Bryan Singer, apparently requested Henry if he was aware of Wolverine within the Marvel Comics.
According to Mortensen, Henry replied, “Yeah, but he doesn’t look like this.”
“All of a sudden, the director is falling all over himself and then the rest of the meeting was him explaining in detail to Henry why he was taking certain liberties,” the actor added.
The irony of taking part in the identical character through the years wasn’t misplaced on Mortensen, who later went on to star within the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

“We walked out of there, and Henry asks if he will change the things he told him about, and I say, ‘I don’t think so. I’m not going to do it anyway, because I’m not sure I want to be doing this for years.’ And then, a couple of years later, I’m doing three ‘Lord of the Rings’, so who knows,” he stated.
Mortensen performed Aragorn, one of many important protagonists within the trilogy — The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003), based mostly on JRR Tolkien’s e-book.