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'Road' Warrior

In his most demanding role yet, Viggo Mortensen is the face of determination in the midst of desolation

Viggo Mortensen is The Man and Kodi Smit-McPhee is The Boy in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.’’ Viggo Mortensen is The Man and Kodi Smit-McPhee is The Boy in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.’’ (Macall Polay/Dimension Films)
By Lynda Gorov
Globe Correspondent / November 22, 2009

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LOS ANGELES - Viggo Mortensen is everything you’d want and expect him to be: shaggy-haired handsome, passionate, thoughtful, and smart. The actor-writer-poet-painter and jazz musician pretty much seems to be the Renaissance man in real life that he is on paper. Only then it happens. (Full article: 1244 words)

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