Viggo Mortensen: Someone showed it to us. Viggo Mortensen: Well, we saw the game actually. And the way Mortensen tells it, he still seems just a little pissed about it.īut, first, I had to ask about the new Crimes of the Future board game.ĭid you see the Crimes of the Future board game tweet? I mention this to Seydoux, which leads Mortenson to tell a very detailed story about how he was cut out of Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo, to which Seydoux even seemed shocked by this. Mortensen had this whole career before he became incredibly famous from the Lord of the Rings movies, which means you can be watching almost anything from the mid-80s until the late 90s ( Witness, Young Guns II, Daylight, to name a few) and Mortenson just might pop up. It’s no wonder people keep wanting to work with Cronenberg. Considering the subject matter, it’s funny to hear from Mortensen and Seydoux what a fun shoot this was and there were real moments of laughter on set. There are, let’s say, unpleasant scenes in Crimes of the Future, but they are all there to drive the plot, not to shock. As the film goes on, the couple are faced with a situation where they have to decide what’s going too far in the sake of art in a way that only Cronenberg can really explore quite like this. So Saul’s disease is literally turned into a sensual art performance.
Mortensen and Seydoux play Saul and Caprice, a couple who put on underground art shows in which Caprice operates on Saul, removing unwanted organs from his body that grow from a condition that, if not removed, they will kill him. This is Léa Seydoux’s first time working with Cronenberg and she didn’t know what to expect. Cronenberg is very much one of these directors where actors seem to come back for more time and time again. Viggo Mortensen (or, as he was once called, “Morganstern,” more on that in a bit) has reteamed with David Cronenberg for their fourth collaboration, Crimes of the Future.
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