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Viggo Mortensen is selective when choosing his roles, including Good and The Road.

BIG TROUBLE: Viggo Mortensen stars in Eastern Promises on Wednesday night. Top 10 TV picks: May 5-11 Film and television critic Philip Wakefield assesses the best movies on offer on the box this week, for Tuesday, May 5 to Monday, May 11.

CP Taylor's final play Good, the frightening story of how a decent, middle-class, German intellectual drifts into Nazism, was given a fine production by the RSC at the Donmar Warehouse in 1981 with an unforgettable performance by Alan Howard.

He turned a brutal Russian gangster into a near hero in Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, but can he do the same for a seductive Nazi in his latest movie, Good? Viggo Mortensen talks to Chrissy Iley about passion, poetry and his performance in Cormac McCarthy's The Road One of the things that has always fascinated me about Viggo Mortensen is the way ...

Xan Brooks follows the star of Good on a merry road trip of an interview that takes in playing a Nazi pawn, surviving the Lord of the Rings and why he's about to disappear on us Novel ideas ... Viggo Mortensen.

His post Lord of the Rings CV is littered with roles that surprise, whether it's the David Cronenberg double-header of A History of Violence and Eastern Promises or the Ed Harris Western Appaloosa .

Viggo Mortensen returns in a risky role as a professor corrupted by the Nazis in 'Good'. Viggo Mortensen's starring role in his new film Good is being hailed by its distributors as an extraordinary change of pace a fact that makes him sigh resignedly.

Director: Vicente Amorim Screenwriters: John Wrathall Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs , Jodie Whittaker, Steven Mackintosh, Mark Strong, Anastasia Hille, Gemma Jones Running time: 96 mins Certificate: 15 Nobody could accuse Viggo Mortensen of letting success go to his head.

This column was wrong to say that Widnes was among the answers to a sport quiz that asked, "which was the last club from outside the old Yorkshire and Lancashire boundaries to win the Rugby League Challenge Cup?" By its winning year of 1984 Widnes obviously fell under Cheshire.

Sure, Viggo Mortensen has never really been the kind of actor to "play the Hollywood game." He never seemed terribly interested in fame, recognition or anything but being a part of rewarding movies.

He's a bit of a renaissance man, is Viggo, not just an actor but a photographer, writer, blogger, poet, occasional musician, and now publisher.

The new thriller from director David Cronenberg reteams him with his "A History of Violence" leading man Viggo Mortensen.

Viggo Mortensen: first Good - and then goodbye? Viggo Mortensen hasn't accepted a movie role for a year, and may never make one again.

Photograph by: IMDB, IMDB There was so much promise to David Cronenberg's 2007 film Eastern Promises that it couldn't be contained in a single film: MTV News reported yesterday that the Canadian director has decided to make a sequel to the award- winning film.

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Ten-word review: 'Good German' acquiesces to Nazis; implausible, except for intense Mortensen.

"A History of Violence" - David Cronenberg, the king of the artistic grotesque, created this gripping and thoughtful look at a quiet family man , who thwarts a violent robbery.

Four weeks in rehab: laughs, tears, quips, platitudes, and Sandra Bullock. Or Sandra Bully, for all the chance that anyone else has.

UNLIKE many actors who essentially play themselves in every role, Viggo Mortensen is developing a reputation for diversity.