Viggo Mortensen scores his own movies. His music background is a saga in itself. Viggo Mortensen, the director, writer and composer of “The Dead Don’t Hurt.” Oh, yes — he acts in it too.

Viggo Mortensen Expands On Why He Saddled Up For His Western ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ – Munich International Film Festival. Stewart Clarke. Thu, July 4, 2024 at 11:13 AM UTC.

Viggo Mortensen, who also writes and directs, plays Olsen and joins us now from our studios in New York. Thank you so much for being with us. MORTENSEN: Thanks for having me.

Viggo Mortensen has been a working actor since the 1980s, securing his first speaking role in the 1985 Harrison Ford film Witness, but he’s been a fan of westerns for most of his life, even ...

You can’t immediately tell whether this film is trying to be an old-fashioned Western or a revisionist one. It was written and directed by Viggo Mortensen, who stars alongside Vicky Krieps.