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Viggo Mortensen on having to decline The Hateful Eight role

March 24, 2015 by Gavin Logan

In less than nine months we’ll all get to see Quentin Tarantino’s hotly anticipated new movie The Hateful Eight and in a recent interview with Grantland, The Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen admits that he was once up for a role in the western but that he had to say no due to scheduling conflicts.

Mortensen – who had previously read alongside Harvey Keitel for a part in Tarantino’s inaugural feature film Reservoir Dogs – claims that he met with the director last year to begin negotiations but that it didn’t work out.

“Yeah, we did meet. … [Tarantino] wanted to start shooting at the end of the year and do rehearsals before that, and I just couldn’t do that schedule-wise. That’s the only reason [I passed on the project],”

It was heavily rumoured last year that Tarantino was considering Mortensen for a lead role but this is the first time Viggo has spoken about it. Jennifer Lawrence was also rumoured to be up for a part but in a similar situation she couldn’t commit to the role.

Mortensen continued, “I wish [The Hateful Eight] would have worked out, but that’s what I’m talking about — you either see these films through to the end or you don’t…It would have been really, really fun to work with [Tarantino]. I think he’s really smart and funny.”

Mortensen’s schedule was too busy due to the filming – and co-producing – of his next film Jauja which tells the story of a father and daughter’s journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilisation.

The Hateful Eight is released on November 13th.

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Originally published March 24, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.

Filed Under: Gavin Logan, Movies, News Tagged With: Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight, Viggo Mortensen

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