Painful movie roles that have changed actors forever - Page 3 of 9

Viggo Mortensen – «The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers»

«The Lord of the Rings» trilogy by Peter Jackson was very complex, starting from the plot to the costumes. The study, the set and the postproduction took a lot of money, energy and effort. The actors also literally had hard moments. In one of the scenes of «The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers» Viggo Mortensen, who played Aragorn, almost drowned. His character was hit in the back with arrows, so Mortensen had to lie face down and swim along the river. However, the team did not consider how strong the flow was and Viggo just went to the bottom in his heavy suit.