Viggo Mortensen has spent decades captivating audiences ... He almost didn’t take the role — until his son, a huge J.R.R. Tolkien fan, convinced him to say yes. And he got so into character ...

Viggo Mortensen is in his mid-60s and still looks great ... and minds of Tolkien fandom when he took up the role of Aragorn, son of Arathorn, in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

From the second scene of Mortensen's second feature, "The Dead Don't Hurt" (following 2020's excellent father-son drama ...