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T Magazine: Viggo Talks and Talks →
“High up in an apartment block in Toronto, Viggo Mortensen was padding around barefoot, cleaning up the kitchen after lunch and speaking, in his soft-voiced way, about his longing for immortality.”
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Viggo Mortensen by Inez & Vinoodh, 2006
Hey, wanna know how Viggo got that delightful scar on his lip? Or, fellow Viggo spastics, wanna rehear the story of how Viggo got that delightful scar on his lip? Ok!
He was 17 and drunk and at St. Lawrence University, and it was Halloween. “It was just one of those things,” he says. “Just sort of clowning around. I grabbed somebody’s deerskin rug from his house where this party was, and I think I grabbed some beer. Like, a six-pack. Maybe it was a case. It was just for a lark. And I was running through the bushes and being chased. Then I got shoved into a barbed-wire fence. Stupid, really. Nothing very spectacular or glamorous.”
Once the barbed wire had done its work, there was just a film of skin holding his lip together. His friend took him to a clinic, where the doctor realized Viggo was too drunk to need an anesthetic. He was quite a sight. For Halloween he had dressed as David Bowie on the cover of Aladdin Sane, with a red-and-blue lightning bold painted down the centre of his face where the barbed wire had done its damage. “It made a *beep* mess,” he says. “The blood and the smeared lightning bolt.”
The Rebel King
Chris Heath, GQ magazine, Apr ‘04 (source)Now let’s all talk about how thrilling it is to imagine Viggo in Aladdin Sane face & how beautifully grotesque he must have looked dripping blood over his smeared lightening bolt face. My teeth are clamped tight on my lip as I imagine it!
